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A short video of the Georgia Tech AI-Adult Learning and Online Education (ALOE) project, along with other related NSF projects, is available for viewing at  https://videohall.com/p/2364  

PIs:  Julia Melkers (Arizona State University) and Ruth Kanfer Project:  Online skill building graduate programs are rapidly gaining popularity among adults seeking to reskill or upskill their competencies in bright prospect fields, such as computer science. The GT OMSCS program has … Continue reading “Adult Online Learning: The Experience of Skill Building in the GT OMSCS Program”

SIOP 2022 Presentations PARK lab graduate students, Sibley Lyndgaard, Corey Tatel, and Jennifer Egan, will be presenting on the research they have conducted in the past year at the 2022 SIOP Annual Conference. See below for the topics they will … Continue reading “Spring is in the Air: New Research Findings from the WSC”

Looking for good conversation and appetizers at SIOP?  You are invited to the Georgia Tech Reception at the Fountain Bar (in the main SIOP conference hotel) on Friday, April 29th, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m.  All are welcome!

The Harvard Next Level Lab is based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education within the larger research group known as Project Zero. Their work is focused on synthesizing the findings of cognitive science, neuroscience and learning sciences as an … Continue reading “Harvard Next Level Lab Speaker Series”

Link: https://nextlevellab.gse.harvard.edu/nll-dss-ruth-kanfer

This conversation will take place 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. EST on Thursday, January 27, 2022. The conversation is available on iHeart Radio, Podcast App, or Apple Music.

To view the public webinar, please click the link.

A virtual assembly funded by the National Science Foundation took place across four weeks in July 2021. The purpose of the assembly was to build a framework for applied research to promote educational and mobility opportunities for “working learners” – … Continue reading “Forum: Building an Applied Science to Support Working Learners”

For more information, please follow the link: https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/01-13-2022/human-ai-teaming-state-of-the-art-and-research-needs.

Researchers and experts from Georgia Tech, Arizona State University, Drexel University, Harvard University, Georgia State University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the Technical College System of Georgia form the new AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education funded by the NSF. … Continue reading “Georgia Tech headquarters NSF AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education (ALOE)”

The Work Science Center would like to congratulate Tara Behrend and Richard Landers for their election to the SIOP Executive Board! Tara Behrend will be the new SIOP President-Elect, and Richard Landers will serve as Instructional and Educational Officer.

Date: Monday, September 23, 2019 Personnel Psychology has a call for papers for their special issue, entitled “What’s Age got to do with it? Age and Age-Related Differences in the workplace.” Special Issue Editors are all Work Science Center members: Margaret Beier, … Continue reading “Personnel Psychology Call for Papers/Special Issue”

About the Award The award is named after the late Julius “Jay” E. Uhlaner. The former Army Research Institute (ARI) technician and chief psychologist of the U.S. Army left a lasting legacy through his leadership and research achievements in applying … Continue reading “WSC Network Member, Phillip Ackerman, Receives 2019 Julius E. Uhlaner Award”

Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 Work Science Center Network Member, Alice Brawley Newlin, recently published an article in the Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods examining some of the basic assumptions we make in the statistics we use to answer our research questions. Specifically, … Continue reading “Network Research Highlight: Type I Error Rates and Heteroscedastic Errors”

Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 The Work Science Center is overjoyed to announce that Dr. Tracy Kantrowitz has joined our advisory council.  Dr. Kantrowitz received her PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology with a concentration in quantitative measurement from the Georgia Institute of Technology. … Continue reading “Tracy Kantrowitz Joins WSC Advisory Council”

Date: Friday, February 1, 2019By: Justin Sabree The Industrial-Organizational Psychology program at Georgia Tech recently hosted a series of speakers on modern team research in a wide variety of contexts. Below, we briefly outline these talks. Scott Tannenbaum, President and … Continue reading “Modern Teams Speaker Series”

Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 Network Member, Fred Oswald; WSC Advisory Council member, Tara Behrend; and Lori Foster released the first edition of their edited book, Workforce Readiness and the Future of Work. The book features 13 chapters tackling topics including the … Continue reading “Workforce Readiness and the Future of Work”

Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Network members Cort Rudolph, Hannes Zacher, and Boris Baltes released their edited book, Work Across the Lifespan. The book features 26 chapters, including work from many Work Science Center Network Members. Content ranges from theoretical perspectives on aging … Continue reading “Work Across the Lifespan”

Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Ken Catchpole gave the second of the WSC Distinguished Lectures, titled “Task, Team, Technology Integration in High Technology Teams”

Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 Michael Ford gave the first of the WSC Distinguished Lecture Series talks titled “Implications of Moral Organizational Behavior for Employee Beliefs, Motivation, and Well-Being.” 

Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Bruce Walker, Professor of Psychology at Georgia Tech, and friend of the Work Science Center was recently interviewed for the inaugural ScienceMatters Podcast at GeorgiaTech. During this interview, he discusses data sonification and ways of making data and results … Continue reading “Bruce Walker Interviewed for Inaugural ScienceMatters Podcast”

Date: Friday, July 20, 2018 A study published by Drs. Connie Wanberg, Ruth Kanfer, Darla Hamann, and Zhen Zhang in Psychological Bulletin has recently been picked up and cited by popular press outlet, USA Today. The original study is a … Continue reading “Aging Workforce Research Cited in USA Today”

Date: Thursday, May 24, 2018