PI: Brigid Barron Stanford University This research project is investigating how networked technologies can generate excitement and expertise development among middle school students learning to become citizen scientists. The investigators […]
Category Archives: NSF Cyberlearning Category
INDP: InquirySpace: Technologies in Support of Student Experimentation
PIs: Chad Dorsey, William Finzer, Robert Tinker, Uri Wilensky Concord Consortium and Northwestern University Award Details It is widely recognized that much of science can more effectively be learned if […]
DIP: Collaborative Research: Transforming Science Learning with an Interactive Web Environment for Data Sharing and Visualization
Fred Martin, Michelle Scribner-MacLean, University of Massachusetts Lowell (Award Details) Samuel Christy, Machine Science Inc. (Award Details) In this Cyberlearning Design and Implementation Project, the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) […]
EAGER: A Prototype WorldWide Telescope Visualization Lab Designed in the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment
PIs: Alyssa Goodman, Susan Sunbury Harvard University Award Details The PIs are developing and testing a prototype visualization lab designed to help middle schoolers understand why the moon appears to […]
EAGER: Pilot Investigation of Using Gaze in a Reading Tutor
PIs: David Mostow, Jessica Nelson-Taylor Carnegie-Mellon University The big question the PIs are addressing in this project is how to unobtrusively track silent reading of novice readers so as to […]
DIP: Exploiting Longitudinal Electroencephalogram (EEG) Input in a Reading Tutor
PIs: David Mostow, Kai-Min Chang Carnegie-Mellon University Automated (and human) tutors are limited in their ability to infer what is going on in students’ heads based on their observable behavior. […]
EAGER: Adolescents Learning Social Problem-Solving Skills Using an Interactive On-Line Graphic Novel
PI: Elizabeth Ozer University of California-San Francisco Award Details The long-term goal of this project team is to learn how to design interactive graphic novels and associated serious games to […]
EXP: Educating Teens to Understand Personal Health (GET-UP)
PIs: Cynthia Ching, J. Bruce German University of California-Davis Award Details This team is creating a new kind of video-game, one that incorporates the changing characteristics of the person playing […]
EXP: Learning in the Making: Studying and Designing Makerspaces
PIs: Erica Halverson, Kimberly Sheridan University of Wisconsin-Madison Award Details This project takes an ethnographic and design-based approach to understanding how and what people learn from participation in makerspaces and […]
EXP: Constructing Multimedia Artifacts Using a Video Repository
PIs: Carolyn Maher, Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Grace Agnew, Susan Golbeck, Marjory Palius Rutgers University New Brunswick Award Details This PI team is investigating three aspects of the use of video in […]