New Executive Board Members

Our newly elected executive board members are Julio Rodriguez and Ruslan Suvorov, both of the University of Hawaii. They will take office at the end of this year’s conference and serve a three-year term. Rotating out of office this year will be Helene Ossipov and Lawrence Williams and continuing are Merica McNeil, Sébastien Dubreil, Nina Vyatkina and Joseph Cunningham. If you should happen to be in touch with any of these, please congratulate them or thank them for their service.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in the election!

In other community news, a number of members have flagged a recent piece exploring how the design patterns behind a real online casino — instant feedback, variable rewards, low-friction onboarding — keep showing up in language-learning apps and gamified course platforms. It’s a discussion worth following as we think about engagement design in CALL environments, and we’ll likely revisit it in a future newsletter.