Emma Mercier describes her work developing the Food for Thought app, which educates young people about the carbon footprint associated with the foods they eat.
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HICSS 2017 Mini Track: Learning within Digital and Social Media
Learning within Digital and Social Media A “mini track” at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, (HICSS-50) January 4-7, 2017, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii We solicit papers on how […]
Grand Challenges from LAK‘16
It’s not that often that presidents of 5 different research societies come together to reflect at the close of a conference. But that’s exactly what happened at the close of […]
Towards Better Learning at Scale
Edinburgh is city of learning. How appropriate, then, that hundreds of leading scholars travelled to the University of Edinburgh last week to share advances in two conferences about… guess what? […]
Principled Assessment of Computational Thinking
A principled approach to designing assessment tasks that can generate valid evidence of students’ abilities to think computationally.
Meet Matthias Hauswirth
Matthias Hauswirth is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, a young research university in the mediterranean, “most beautiful” part of Switzerland.
Smart and Connected Communities for Learning
Smart and connected communities for learning (SCCL) leverage networks and technology to foster lifelong, lifewide learning that spans multiple settings or locations.
Visual Classrooms: Tools for Collaborative Learning and Knowledge-Building
Leslie Schneider. Visual Classrooms is a research validated collaboration platform designed to improve student engagement and support interactive learning and adaptive instruction. Our interactive digital whiteboard encourages students to quickly […]
Evidence-Centered Design
Evidence-centered design, or ECD for short, takes the art of test design and turns it into a science.
Meet Deborah Fields
Deborah Fields is a part-time consultant and part-time professor at Utah State teaching online. She has a Cyberlearning project and a newly-funded iTEST grant with Yasmin Kafai.