The Spencer Foundation is accepting applications on a rolling basis with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to three years to support education research projects that will contribute to understanding the rapid shifts in education in this time of crisis and change. Learn more Full proposal deadline: May 18, 2020 and June […]
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Mining Big Data in Education: Affordances and Challenges
The emergence of big data in educational contexts has led to new data-driven approaches to support informed decision making and efforts to improve educational effectiveness.
Meet Ana-Paula Correia
Ana-Paula Correia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and a faculty member with the Human-Computer Interaction graduate program at Iowa State University.
Webinar: Small business funding for learning technologies during and beyond COVID-19
Tuesday, May 5, from 11 am-12 pm PT / 2-3 pm ET NSF invites you to attend this webinar to learn more about small business funding from NSF to support research and development of technologies to enhance cyberlearning, learning engineering, and applications of learning modalities. Register for this Webinar The current coronavirus crisis has dramatically […]
Collaborative Research: Precision Learning: Data-Driven Experimentation of Learning Theories using Internet-of-Videos
10/1/19-9/30/21 PI: Dongwon Lee, Pennsylvania State University (Award Details) This is a project to study what works to help students learn more effectively in the context of the ASSISTments system. ASSISTments is an online system that provides both assistance to students and real time assessment data to teachers. ASSISTments now supports 100,000 students who have […]
CAREER: Dialogue Engagement for Educational Robots
6/1/20-5/31/25 PIs: Heather Pon-Barry Mount Holyoke College Award Details The activities in this Faculty Early Career Development project are rooted in a social educational robot that collaborates with students in STEM learning. The robot acts as a peer learner who asks students to teach them how to approach mathematics and computer science problems. The process […]
Doctoral Consortium Workshop at the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference 2020
3/1/20-2/28/21 PIs: Michael Brown, Stephanie Teasley Iowa State University Award Details Data intensive research is becoming increasingly important across all scientific disciplines. In particular, the field of education research is experiencing a revolution in methodology due to the increasing digitization of the learning process. The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) is a key player […]
What is AI Literacy? Competencies and Design Considerations
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly integrated in user-facing technology, but public understanding of these technologies is often limited.
Call for Nominations: ISLS Early Career Award
Deadline extended to: May 1, 2020 The International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Early Career Award recognizes learning scientists who have made exciting and innovative contributions to the field during the early years following their Ph.D. Each year ISLS will select up to two awardees. Nominations can only be made by an ISLS member. […]
CIRCL Update: NSF Coronavirus Information and Impact on Grants & Deadlines
Dear Colleague, All of us at CIRCL want to be as supportive and helpful as we can during these challenging times. Below we have a list of recent and highly relevant NSF news. We’ve also posted tips on how to host successful virtual advisory boards, and would love for the community to submit new Primers […]