As the outgoing president of the Design and Development Division of AECT, I was very pleased to serve as the master of ceremonies for the AECT luncheon, sponsored by D&D and the Research and Theory division. Here’s a quick recap.
We had about 120 in attendance, and the lunch and program was about 75 minutes. I began by welcoming everyone, then introducing our officers. Our new President-Elect is MJ Bishop, and our new Vice-President for Communications is Kathy Ingram.
We’re currently the largest division, with over 600 members. AECT has approximately 2200 members–and 1100 of those do not have a division affiliation. The other 1100 have joined roughly 3 divisions each.
Elizabeth Boling did an excellent job as program planner, and we received over 200 presentation proposals. Thanks to more than 60 proposal reviewers.
Research and Theory president Barbara Lockee, and VP Vanessa Dennen presented four R&T awards.
As he has for the last 18 or so years, Bob Reiser presented our awards for D&D including best paper, best practice, best book, best young researcher. (Winner names coming soon). Here are our past winners.
I was glad to present the award for Outstanding Service to the Division to a surprised MJ Bishop. MJ then talked about our first PacifiCorp Design Competition, and thanked Dan Schuh from PacifiCorp, and Monica Tracey for their work on the competition. The three teams who were finalists and their mentors were recognized.
I asked Jim Klein to present two special service awards to Nick Eastmond and to Gary Anglin for their years of editorial work with our journal, Educational Technology Research and Development.
I then presented a new gavel to our incoming president, Elizabeth Boling. Elizabeth talked about the review and program planning process, and thanked Zane Olina for her help, and thanked the reviewers.
Mike Spector then made some closing comments about how well our division was doing, and we were dismissed.
