PIs: John Black, Frances Nankin, Sandra Sheppard Teachers College, Columbia University Award Details The project team is integrating the stories, characters, math content, and research of New York’s public television station’s (WNET), Cyberchase multimedia project with Teachers’ College’s research on embodied cognition theory and gesture-base simulation games to create two mobile application prototypes to be […]
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CAP: Support for Young Researchers to attend the IITS Conference 2012
PI: Beverly Woolf University of Massachusetts Amherst The International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) provides a forum for interchange of ideas around the applications of computer science to education and human learning. Presentations at the conference focus on developments and rigorous research around the design and use of interactive and adaptive learning technologies for […]
DIP: Collaborative Research: Social Robots as Mechanisms for Language Instruction, Interaction, and Evaluation in Pre-School Children
Cynthia Breazeal, MIT (Award Details) David DeSteno, Northeastern University (Award Details) Paul Harris, Harvard University (Award Details) This project is leveraging emerging technologies in social robotics with recent findings from social, developmental, and cognitive psychology to design, implement, and evaluate a new generation of robots that is capable of interacting with and instructing young learners […]
EAGER: Cyberlearning at the Los Angeles State Historic Park
PIs: Jeffrey Burke, Noel Enyedy, Carlos Wagmister University of California-Los Angeles The long-term goal of this project team is to advance understanding of how technology can be used to leverage the potential of public spaces to promote civic engagement, public interaction, and ultimately, life-long learning. In this EAGER project, they are carrying out a set […]
EXP: Using Technologies to Engage Learners in the Scientific Practices of Investigating Rich Behavioral and Ecological Questions
PIs: Thomas Moher, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Leilah Lyons, Joel Brown, Brian Reiser University of Illinois at Chicago Award Details This exploratory project, involving The University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University, investigates the use of sensor-based technologies and general engineering approaches by fourth and fifth grade elementary students, and the effects of that use on […]
EXP: Exploring the Virtual World of Contextualized English Language Acquisition
PIs: Regina Mendez, Mary Beth Ogulewicz Springfield Technical Community College Award Details The PIs are aiming to investigate how virtual world 3D technology can be used to address the limited opportunities adult immigrants and refugees have for exploring and practicing their English in authentic settings without the risk of seeming inarticulate. In partnership with WonderBuilders, […]
DIP: BioSourcing: A Crowdsourcing Approach to Increasing Public Understanding in Computational Biosciences
PIs: Kurt Squire, Michael Ferris, Enid Montague, Bilge Mutlu, Benjamin Shapiro University of Wisconsin-Madison Award Details This project explores the hypothesis that compelling learning games based on contemporary science that offer opportunities to contribute to scientific inquiry will lead to increased interest in science, increased career choice of science, increased conceptual understanding of science content, […]
EAGER: Promoting Algebra Learning Through an Accessible Expression System for Students with Visual Impairments and Blindness
PI: Derrick Smith, Erica Slate University of Alabama in Huntsville Award Details The long-term goal of the PIs for this project is to transform the enterprise of STEM education for blind students and those with visual impairments by creating a fully accessible teaching platform that acknowledges their special needs. Learning of mathematics for students with […]
CAP: Building a Technology Research Agenda – An Early Career Symposium
PI: Jozenia Colorado Emporia State University The Annual Meeting of the Association for Education Communications and Technology (AECT) provides a forum for interchange of ideas around designing technological support for learning and training. Its Early Career Symposia provide an avenue for early career scholars to receive mentoring from established researchers. The 2012 Annual Meeting has […]
EXP: Implementing a Workflow Visualization System for Design-Based Research
10/1/12-9/30/18 PIs: Sadhana Puntambekar, Sharon Derry, Alan Hackbarth University of Wisconsin-Madison Award Details This project is iteratively designing, beta-testing, implementing, and evaluating a fully automated, sharable Workflow Visualization System (WVS) to help researchers and educators preserve, organize, and analyze data captured from multiple design iterations of complex cyberlearning research and development (R&D) efforts. The team […]