8/1/18-7/31/21 PIs: Jacob Whitehill, Erin Ottmar, Lane Harrison Worcester Polytechnic Institute Award Details The quality of teacher-student interactions in school classrooms both predicts and impacts students’ learning outcomes. Training teachers […]
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Data-Driven, Human-in-the-Loop Support for Facilitating Participatory Learning Activities
9/1/18-8/30/20 PIs: Leilah Lyons, Stephen Uzzo New York Hall of Science Award Details Museums are increasingly developing digital learning experiences where visitors generate interesting usage data, but these data are […]
A Remote Multimodal Learning Environment to Increase Graphical Information Access for Blind and Visually Impaired Students
8/15/18-7/31/21 PIs: Nicholas Giudice, Justin Dimmel, Stacy Doore University of Maine Award Details There are many limitations for students who are blind or visually impaired (BVI) in accessing complex STEM […]
EAGER: Collaborative Research: Automated Instruction Assistant for Argumentative Essays
9/1/18-8/31/20 PI: Rebecca Passonneau Pennsylvania State Univ University Park Award Details Development of students’ writing skills promotes critical thinking across disciplines, and professional success. Yet the past decade of the […]
Advancing the Use of Automated Dialogue Systems for Teaching Communication and Interpersonal Skills
10/1/18-9/30/20 PIs: Jonathan Gratch, Peter Kim University of Southern California Award Details This project advances the use of technology to improve worker communication and interpersonal skills. The project pursues a […]
Designing and Evaluating a Naturalistic Platform for Collaborative Learning About Spatial Reasonings
9/1/18-8/31/21 PIs: Marcelo Worsley, David Uttal Northwestern University Award Details Spatial reasoning and computational thinking are essential knowledge for future workers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Researchers in […]
ICLS 2018 Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age in ICLS Doctoral Consortium and Early Career Workshops
4/1/18-3/31/19 PI: Carolyn Rose Carnegie-Mellon University Award Details This award will support travel and registration for a Doctoral Consortium and Early Career Workshop at the annual meeting of the International […]
Technology Facilitated Training for Mental Health Counseling
8/1/18-7/31/21 PIs: Vivek Srikumar, Eric Poitras, Zachary Imel, Michael Tanana University of Utah Award Details Millions of Americans have been diagnosed with mental health or substance abuse problems. While conversational […]
Support for Doctoral Students from U.S. Universities to Attend the 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2018)
8/1/18-7/31/20 PIs: Neil Heffernan Worcester Polytechnic Institute Award Details This award will support 10 doctoral students from the United States to attend the 11th Educational Data Mining (EDM) conference. Scheduled […]
Collaborative Research: Automatic Text-Simplification and Reading-Assistance to Support Self-Directed Learning by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Computing Workers
8/1/18-7/31/21 PIs: Wei Xu, Ohio State University (Award Details) Matt Huenerfauth, Rochester Institute of Technology (Award Details) While there is a shortage of computing and IT professionals in the U.S., […]