{"id":14724,"date":"2025-09-17T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/watch-exploring-innovative-dissertation-formats\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T03:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T03:40:15","slug":"watch-exploring-innovative-dissertation-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/watch-exploring-innovative-dissertation-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Exploring Innovative Dissertation Formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can scholarship be articulated through dance or a musical album? Under the colorful lights of the DFI Gallery, members of the TC community explored five unconventional dissertations last spring as part of \u201cMODES,\u201d the immersive exhibit of multimodal scholarship presented by the Digital Futures Institute.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>                               <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XDWsg-M-BoA?si=5MtiYqSDpVu3MRo5\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>                                 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#039;s a tendency to think multimodal equals digital or multimodal equals media \u2014 electronic or digital media. And all of these dissertations attended to multimodal as so much more: multifaceted, multi-material, multimedia,\u201d explained Lalitha Vasudevan, Professor of Technology and Education, and the College\u2019s Vice Dean for Digital Innovation. Vasudevan, also the Managing Director at the College\u2019s Digital Futures Institute, hosted a panel discussion about the exhibit, now available to watch below. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The scholars] were pointing to and harnessing the affordances or the capacities of different tools, different spaces, different platforms, as you&#039;ll see, in trying to investigate really broad, but also substantive questions about various social phenomena.\u201d <\/p>\n<h3>Watch the Panel Discussion<\/h3>\n<p>                               <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6LUwpKHhuZ8?si=FQXFn37ou_SuGDa_\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>                                 <\/p>\n<h3>Meet the Scholars<\/h3>\n<h2>Carousel<\/h2>\n<p>                                                                    Brian Mooney (Ph.D. \u201922, English Education)                                <\/p>\n<h3>                                              Brian Mooney (Ph.D. \u201922, English Education)                        <\/h3>\n<p>                                                                        Dagmar Spain (Ed.D. \u201924, Dance Education)                                <\/p>\n<h3>                                              Dagmar Spain (Ed.D. \u201924, Dance Education)                        <\/h3>\n<p>                                                                        Ileana Jim\u00e9nez (Ph.D. \u201924, English Education)                                <\/p>\n<h3>                                              Ileana Jim\u00e9nez (Ph.D. \u201924, English Education)                        <\/h3>\n<p>                                                                        Kristin Gorski (Ed.D. \u201915, Instructional Technology and Media)                                <\/p>\n<h3>                                              Kristin Gorski (Ed.D. \u201915, Instructional Technology and Media)                        <\/h3>\n<p>                                                                        Lucius Von Joo (Ed.D. \u201924, Communication and Education)                                <\/p>\n<h3>                                              Lucius Von Joo (Ed.D. \u201924, Communication and Education)                        <\/h3>\n<p><em>Published Wednesday, Sep 17, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can scholarship be articulated through dance or a musical album? 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Vasudevan, also the Managing Director at the College\u2019s Digital Futures Institute, hosted a panel discussion about the exhibit, now available to watch below.<br \/>\n \u201c[The scholars] were pointing to and harnessing the affordances or the capacities of different tools, different spaces, different platforms, as you&#039;ll see, in trying to inve..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14900,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions\/14900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}