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Lander Education Professor to Discuss Decision Education in Community Lecture

Rachel_Schiera_LMB_3761.jpgThe community is invited to join Lander University and the Arts Center of Greenwood for the fourth installment of the 2024-25 Community Lecture Series Tuesday, February 4. Dr. Rachel Schiera, assistant professor of education at Lander, will give a lecture titled “30,000+ Decisions a Day: The How, What, and Why of Decisions and Decision Education.” The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. at the Arts Center of Greenwood, with complimentary refreshments and a cash bar opening at 5:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

By some estimates, we make tens of thousands of decisions in a single day. How do we learn to make the decisions we do? What is the role of educators in decision making? What other factors play into our decision-making processes? This lecture, given by Dr. Rachel Schiera, of Lander University, will share recent research on how decision making is taught and learned, and how generative AI is potentially impacting the decisions we make every day.

Schiera has taught pre-kindergarten through university-aged students in five countries through the course of her career, and has delivered teacher training in association with Oxford University Press, the Government of the Republic of Korea, the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Fulbright Program in the United States. She holds a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and holds an assistant professorship at Lander University. She also acts as co-coordinator of the Call Me MiSTER chapter at Lander University and contributes to the Lander University Faculty Senate. She has contributed for more than 10 years to curriculum development in the Sultanate of Oman; published on teacher transformation; and written for the Association for Childhood Education International and National Council of Teachers of English. Her scholarly work currently focuses on decision education in the age of generative AI.

Please visit www.lander.edu/events for updates and to confirm event times and venues. For questions, please contact Assistant Provost Dr. Mark Rollins at 864-388-8563 or mrollins@lander.edu.