If any of you are interested in professional development, organizational change, or career services, here are some recommendations:

POD (podnetwork.org/): A great organization for professional development and organizational development professionals.

NACE (https://www.naceweb.org/): The largest college/university career services organization.

NCDA (https://www.ncda.org/aws/NCDA/pt/sp/home_page): Career development organization that includes but isn't limited to higher ed-based folks

Graduate Career Consortium (gradcareerconsortium.org/): Organization for those working in career and professional development for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars

• Derek Attig

Great questions. I think a lot of it depends on the field that you are going into. As @kara said, AERA is great for general education research.

As I'm in the medical field, faculty development the three organizations below are great as the combine faculty development, learning, and the scholarship of teaching an D learning.

International Association of Medical Science Educators - http://iamse.org

Association of Medical Educators in Europe - http://amee.org

Professional Organization Developers Netowkr (POD) - https://podnetwork.org

One thing that makes LDL great and hard is the diversity of applications for our learning. It takes some work to seek out those organizations that link to your speciality and have both education and research included.

Looking forward to the discussion.

Sol

• Sol Roberts-Lieb

AERA (American Education Research Association)

https://www.aera.net/

They offer a discounted rate for graduate students and first year alumni.

You can join special interest groups and choose from a variety of electronic journals (I personally still like physical copies of some things.) They also hold a variety of events throughout the year. They have a robust communications strategy, including regular emails with job postings and other resources.

Here is an example of a recent article that may be of interest to some of you.

In the October 2021 edition of Review of Educational Research, the opening article is Methodological Guidance Paper: The Craft of Conducting a Qualitative Review. While this references reviewing qualitative research, many principles can be gleaned for conducting your own qualitative study. It also provides a checklist or rubric that is a great resource.

• Kara Francis

@Trevor Aleo, that is great to hear you were selected to serve on one of the AERA special interest group boards. I have always found that volunteering and giving service goes a long way for all parties involved. My undergraduate university has the motto of Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve. I love the simplicity of that statement.

• Kara Francis

Seconded on the AERA recommendation! For anyone interested in composition and multimodality, the Writing & Literacies Special Interest Group is really active and forward thinking. I applied to serve on their graduate student board this year, and based on our first few meetings, I think it’ll open up some cool opportunities. For anyone active on Twitter, we’ll be running some edchats at #literacies over the next few months.

I’m also a member of the National Council of Teachers of English and get a lot out of it. Even if you aren’t an English educator, they place a lot of emphasis on topics near and dear to the LDL program (multimodal composition, multiliteracies, pedagogy etc.) in both their professional learning offerings and journal themes. Worth keeping an eye out if you’re looking to submit to a solid practitioner journal.

• Trevor Aleo