Thursday, June 22, 12:30 – 3 PM ET Join STELAR for a special webinar held on behalf of the NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) highlighting upcoming funding opportunities within EHR especially aimed at broadening participation in STEM. Register for NSF Opportunities: Broadening Participation in STEM to be held on Thursday, June 22, […]
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Handbook of Learning Analytics
The Handbook of Learning Analytics is a snapshot of the field in 2017 and features a range of prominent authors from the learning analytics and educational data mining research communities. The printed Handbook is now available for $20. Online access always free. For either, visit: Handbook of Learning Analytics
Big Data in Education Report
The National Academy of Education (NAEd) released a new report on Big Data in Education: Balancing the Benefits of Educational Research and Student Privacy. The report addresses a fundamental tension of how to reap the educational benefits that access to comprehensive “big” data provides while ensuring student privacy. See the report
NSF/EHR CAREER Program Webinars
The NSF/EHR CAREER Working Group is hosting a webinar to answer participants’ questions about developing and submitting proposals to the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). The webinar will provide information specific to CAREER submissions to EHR and will give participants the opportunity to interact […]
Data Consortium Fellowships Applications due May 31
The goal of the NSF-funded Data Consortium Fellows (DCF) project is to support learning sciences researchers across the United States in developing the capacity to apply best practices in learning analytics and play. To that end, through the Data Consortium Fellows program, Fellows can apply for up to $2000 in participant support for a new […]
NSF Programs that Fund Cyberlearning
There are many sources of funding for cyberlearning-related research at the National Science Foundation. See a list of relevant programs and guidelines for selecting a program.
Cyberlearning Working Groups – Apply by May 5
CIRCL invites proposals for a series of CIRCL-funded workshops to continue the conversation about innovative genres in cyberlearning and to synthesize our work to help researchers engage in the next set of questions for our field. Workshops should take place in Fall 2017 or early 2018. We are especially interested in workshop topics and themes […]
NSF CISE CRII
For PIs who are in their first academic position post-PhD: NSF’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) solicitation encourages potentially transformational proposals to help increase its investments in the development and growth of the research capabilities of future generations of computer and information scientists and engineers, including computational and data […]
DCL: Growing Convergence Research at NSF
Growing Convergence Research at the National Science Foundation (NSF) is one of 10 Big Ideas for Future NSF Investments. NSF seeks to highlight the value of convergence as a process for catalyzing new research directions and advancing scientific discovery and innovation. The Dear Colleague Letter: Growing Convergence Research at NSF describes an initial set of […]
RPP Workshop & Newsletter
If you are a scientist wanting to connect your broader impacts public engagement work with a longer-term learning research agenda, a learning scientist seeking to develop a collaborative study in an informal STEM learning context, or a science communicator or informal science education professional wanting to build on and contribute to the evidence base on […]