[26 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]
Welcome to My Homepage

My name is June Ahn and I am a Ph.D candidate in Urban Education at the University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education. My research interests include education policy and implementation, and the impact of digital technologies on educational institutions and student development. This website will host updates on my research projects, publications, and current thoughts on issues pertaining to education reform and technology. You will also find my CV (periodically updated) and other information about me throughout.
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[2 Feb 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Why not Computer Assisted Learning?

Computer aided instruction is no worse, and sometimes better, than classroom instruction. CAI also offers other benefits – letting students go at their own pace, personalized feedback, and cost-effective delivery of education. So really, there is no reason why computer-aided instructional strategies are not part of a school’s repertoire for reforms.

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[6 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Flow of Knowledge in Education Research

One of my scholarly interests is in social networks, and naturally the application of social network analysis in education research. I’m currently working on a paper with my advisor looking at the citation patterns (and thus the flow of knowledge) between journals in Education. I’ll spare you the gritty details of sample selection, computing of various metrics, and the final analysis. You can wait for the article for that stuff. However, I thought I’d share a preliminary social-graph that offers some interesting insights into the knowledge flows of ed-research.
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[10 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Dumbledork’s Army – Self Organized Learning

I’m quite excited for a little personal experiment I will participate in this coming spring semester. I’ve organized a little group of PhD students here at USC, and we’re forming a group independent study/reading group to teach ourselves how to do multi-level modeling (aka hierarchical linear modeling).
Why are we doing this?  Well because there are no classes at USC that teach it, and we cannot enroll across town at UCLA because their class is too full. So as Harry and his friends did in the Order of the Phoenix, we’ve …

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