Cyberlearning In The News

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CIRCL Update: New NSF Opportunities & Share your #NSFStories

Dear Colleague, First, congratulations to all of you who presented your stories in the Video Showcase! Check out the 14 cyberlearning-related videos and 33 winners of Facilitator’s Choice, Public Choice, and Presenter’s Choice awards. The event drew more than 58,000 visitors ...
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NSF Program on Fairness in AI in Collaboration with Amazon

NSF announced the 2020 continuation of its Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence in Collaboration with Amazon (FAI) on April 16 through solicitation NSF 20-566. Proposals are due on July 13, 2020 by 5 p.m. submitter’s local time. (Letters ...
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Cyberlearning accepting CAREER proposals

The NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) encourages eligible members of the STEM education research community to submit proposals to the NSF CAREER program. Note that while these are listed as EHR programs, technically CAREER proposals to Cyberlearning ...
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Spencer COVID-19 Related Research Grants

The Spencer Foundation is accepting applications on a rolling basis with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to three years to support education research projects that will contribute to understanding the rapid shifts in education in this ...
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Webinar: Small business funding for learning technologies during and beyond COVID-19

Tuesday, May 5, from 11 am-12 pm PT / 2-3 pm ET NSF invites you to attend this webinar to learn more about small business funding from NSF to support research and development of technologies to enhance cyberlearning, learning engineering, and ...
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Call for Nominations: ISLS Early Career Award

Deadline extended to: May 1, 2020 The International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Early Career Award recognizes learning scientists who have made exciting and innovative contributions to the field during the early years following their Ph.D. Each year ISLS will ...
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CIRCL Update: NSF Coronavirus Information and Impact on Grants & Deadlines

Dear Colleague, All of us at CIRCL want to be as supportive and helpful as we can during these challenging times. Below we have a list of recent and highly relevant NSF news. We’ve also posted tips on how to host ...
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Visiting Assistant Professor in Learning Engineering

The Lynch School of Education (LSOE) at Boston College seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor to be affiliated with its new MA Program in Learning Engineering. The Visiting Assistant Professor will teach and mentor in the program under the guidance of ...
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JLS Special Issue Call for Abstracts

Due: April 15 JLS is excited to solicit abstracts for consideration for a special issue of The Journal of the Learning Sciences titled “Learning in and through the arts.” The goal of this special issue is to develop and explore synergistic ...
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NSF DRL seeks candidates for multiple Program Director positions

The Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) at the US National Science Foundation is seeking qualified candidate(s) for multiple Program Director positions. Please see more details in the following ads: Visiting program officers in multiple ...
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Media, Blogs, and Press Releases from Cyberlearning Leaders


Job Opportunities

Digital Promise Chief Learning Officer (CLO)

Digital Promise seeks a Chief Learning Officer (CLO), a senior leader responsible for providing policy, curriculum, professional development and coaching expertise and leadership across Digital Promise. The CLO will oversee several Digital Promise initiatives that work directly with school ...
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WPI Postdoctoral position in ALT Lab

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position to join the Advanced Learning Technologies Lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (ALT Lab), led by Prof. Ivon Arroyo. The position is funded for 1 year (renewable up to 3 years). The successful candidate ...
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U Illinois Faculty Positions

The College of Education at the University of Illinois seeks interdisciplinary scholars with expertise in how new digital technologies can be applied to learning, teaching, assessment, design, and policy in formal and informal educational settings. Up to three faculty positions ...
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Postdoctoral position for NSF-funded research at CMU

Seeking applications for a postdoctoral position to work on an NSF-supported grant at Carnegie Mellon University, led by Prof. Bruce McLaren. Prof. Ryan Baker of the University of Pennsylvania and Prof. Jon Star of Harvard University are fellow principal ...
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NSF Program Officer Search

The Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL), in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) announces a nationwide search for temporary Program Directors at the National Science Foundation. Formal consideration of applications will begin ...
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NSF CCF Division Director Opening

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has formed a search committee for the next Division Director for its Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF). Apply by September 28.
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NSF Program Director Positions

Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL), at the National Science Foundation announces a nationwide search for temporary program directors with expertise at the intersections between computer science (as ...
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NSF DUE Division Director Search

NSF announces a nationwide search for Division Director for the Division of Undergraduate Education in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). View the Dear Colleague Letter that describes the requirements and how to apply. The mission of EHR is ...
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NSF Program Director Openings

The Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) within the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) at NSF announces nationwide searches to fill the following positions. (See also all open EHR Program Director positions.) Program Director ...
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Call and Other Opportunities

STEM for All Multiplex & Monthly Series

The new STEM for All Multiplex aggregates all videos submitted to video showcases and lets you to search and filter videos from all years. Create playlists based on your interests, favorites, or those from your institution, and share these playlists ...
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Call for Nominations for ISLS Fellows

Extended Deadline for Receipt of Materials: February 7, 2020 ISLS has announced a call for nominations for the 2020 International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) fellows. The ISLS Fellows program has three main goals: Honor those who have made major research ...
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ISLS 2020 Doctoral Consortium

The ICLS 2020 Doctoral Consortium, designed to support the development of doctoral students working in the area of learning sciences, provides an opportunity for participants to share their dissertation research with their peers and a panel of mentors. Participants will ...
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ICLS 2020 Early Career Workshop: Interdisciplinarity in the Learning Sciences

This ICLS Early Career Workshop (ECW) will provide a high quality learning and networking opportunity for early career researchers doing work related to computer-supported collaborative learning and the learning sciences. Within the workshop, participants will share their research with peers ...
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Screen360.tv seeks research collaborators

screen360.tv is an online portal and app for the delivery of curated international film programs ​to young audiences. It was developed at Stanford GSE and the d.School to present the children’s international film festival as an equitable environment for empathetic, ...
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New Master’s Program in Learning Engineering at Boston College

The Lynch School of Education and Human Development is launching an exciting Master’s in Learning Engineering for Fall 2019. To learn more and to apply please visit bc.edu/learningengineering and please join our webinar on October 7th or November 6th ...
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Download AIED Proceedings – free until July 21

The Proceedings of the 20th International Conference Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) are open access until July 21, 2019. Download the AIED Proceedings for free by July 21!
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Call for Papers: LAK 2020

LAK 2020 will be March 23-27 in Frankfurt, Germany with the theme “Celebrating 10 years of LAK: Shaping the future of the field.” See the call for papers.The first submission deadline is October 1, 2019.
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AI Fairness for People with Disabilities

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in decision-making that directly impacts people’s lives. The AI Fairness for People with Disabilities Workshop at ASSETS 2019 will examine AI fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics (FATE) for the specific situations of people ...
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AIED 2019 – June 25-29 in Chicago

The AIED 2019 conference theme is “Education for All in the XXI Century”. Inequity within and between countries continues to grow in the industrial age. Intelligent information technologies have been proposed to reduce this difference, but may instead increase the ...
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News from NSF and the U.S. Government

Call for Panelists for National AI Research Institutes

NSF seeks volunteer reviewers for the interdisciplinary panels that will review proposals submitted to NSF’s upcoming National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes competition. Panels will likely meet between March-May. If you are interested, please complete this short survey by January 13, ...
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STEM for All Multiplex & Monthly Series

The new STEM for All Multiplex aggregates all videos submitted to video showcases and lets you to search and filter videos from all years. Create playlists based on your interests, favorites, or those from your institution, and share these playlists ...
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FAQs about National AI Research Institutes

Have questions about proposals for the National AI Research Institutes? Check out NSF FAQs about the institutes.
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Cyberlearning Workshop Reports: Principles for the Design of Digital STEM Learning Environments

NSF challenged interdisciplinary science and engineering teams to produce plans for developing forward-looking, highly adaptable, distributed digital environments that can personalize learning for individual, diverse learners in collaborative settings with potential applications across multiple and varying: (a) domains of knowledge, ...
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NSF Webinar: National AI Research Institutes Program

Thursday November 7 from 12:30-1:30 PT / 3:30-4:30 ET This NSF webinar introduced the new National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes program, which aims to enable multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder research on large-scale, long-time-horizon challenges in areas of national importance, through a set ...
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NSF Institute in AI-Augmented Learning

This program targets funding for a specific ~$20M institute in AI-Augmented Learning. Amy Baylor is the primary contact person for inquiries. See the solicitation and NSF press release. Proposals deadlines are January 28, 2020 for Institute proposals in one of ...
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NSF seeks Program Officer K-12 for science and math education research

NSF seeks program officers with research and development expertise for the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). Expertise in one or more of the following areas ...
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NSF seeks Program Officer in Science Media

NSF seeks a program officer with expertise in research or development of media in STEM education for the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). This includes ...
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Join us virtually for Cyberlearning 2019

As CIRCL Co-PI Sarita Pillai explains so well in her blog post about Cyberlearning 2019, please join us virtually and explore resources on this site to learn more about cyberlearning. In-person registration is closed, but all are welcome to ...
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NSF Funding Opportunities: DRK-12, CORE, INCLUDES, IUSE, GFRP

A wealth of NSF opportunities: The NSF DRK-12 deadline has been changed to November 18, 2019. Please share this information with your coworkers and associates. If you are planning to submit a proposal, view a compilation of helpful resources in CADRE’s ...
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News from CIRCL

Video Showcase – Register by Feb 15

Registration for this year’s interactive, online video showcase event is now open. Interested in participating? You must register as a presenter by February 15. Learn More and Register to Present Other important dates to keep in mind: Registrations will be reviewed ...
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Important Update from CIRCL on Cyberlearning

We have a put together an important update, based on meetings and conversations between CIRCL and NSF leaders, of information that should be shared more widely. Read the update here. Please feel free to forward.
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Accessibility Webinar

What does it mean for a course to be “accessible”? What are some strategies for making online courses compliant with legal mandates, specifically, and more generally, welcoming to all students, including those with disabilities, who wish to engage in ...
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Seeking Your Input on NSF Proposal Workshops

As part of our broadening participation effort, CIRCL is co-hosting a series of informational workshops on Developing NSF Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (CFLT) Proposals. The workshops target participants who have had no prior CFLT funding. This year’s goal ...
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CL16 Recap

Keynotes, a storify live blog, and reflections by CL16 co-chair Jeremy Rochelle’s are now available. Watch Webcast recordings of the keynotes and special speakers Check out the Storify of the event based on tweets posted with #NSFCL16 Read Jeremy’s reflections in blog ...
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CL17 Call for Participation

CIRCL invites applications to attend Cyberlearning 2017: What’s Next? Making Connections to Shape the Future, which will take place April 18-19, 2017 in Arlington, VA. See the Call for Participation for more information and to apply to attend. Deadline to ...
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