PIs: Alex Mayer, Robert Pastel, Charles Wallace, Shawn Opplige, Richard Donovan Michigan Technological University Award Details This demonstration project is creating and evaluating a set of activities aimed at preparing […]
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DIP: Teaching Writing and Argumentation with AI-Supported Diagramming and Peer Review
PIs: Kevin Ashley, Diane Litman, Christian Schunn University of Pittsburgh Award Details The PIs are investigating the design of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) that are aimed at learning in unstructured […]
EXP: Transforming High School Science via Remote Online Labs
PIs: Kemi Jona, David Uttal Northwestern University Award Details The PIs seek to understand better how online remote labs can be made to function effectively in high-school science classes, especially […]
EXP: Enabling Pedagogical Communication Between Learning and Programming Environments
PI: Michael Clancy University of California-Berkeley Award Details Continuing increases in computer power have led to significant advances in iteractive software-development environments (IDEs) that aim to help programmers plan, write, […]
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Mixed Reality Brings Science Concepts to Life
One of the reasons that science is difficult for students is because many scientific phenomena are invisible to the naked eye. To help students see science concepts in action in the real world, researchers at the Concord Consortium and the University of Virginia have developed mixed-reality technologies that augment hands-on laboratory activities with sensor-driven computer simulations.