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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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Call for JLS Editor(s)

ISLS is searching for new Editor(s) of Journal of the Learning Sciences (JLS) for 2021–2024. Letters of intent are due February 2, 2020. Full proposals are due March 15, 2020.
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Postdoc postition at NC State University

The Innovative Educational Computing laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow with a primary focus on the SimStudent project (www.SimStudent.org) funded by the Institute of Education Sciences ...
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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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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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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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New ISLS Grants Program – Call for Proposals

Call for Proposals: Grants Program for Regional and Affinity Outreach & Engagement Promoting the Learning Sciences While we see many Learning Sciences researchers around the world come to present their studies and discuss new ideas intensively at our annual conferences (ICLS and ...
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AccessCyberlearning 2.0 Capacity Building Institute

January 15-18, 2019 in Seattle, WA The AccessCyberlearning 2.0 Capacity Building Institute (CBI) will bring together researchers, graduate students, and leaders in NSF-funded Cyberlearning projects to engage with each other to explore how to make digital learning research, products, activities, and ...
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Workshop on Digitally-Mediated Team Learning

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided funding for 50 Travel Stipends to a synthesis and design workshop for researchers, educators, and practitioners who are advancing technology-enhanced team learning within STEM disciplines: During the two-and-a-half-day workshop, participants will be afforded ...
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RPP Fall Workshops – Apply by Oct 10

The Research+Practice Collaboratory is offering 4 workshops to support the CS for All community in its applications to the NSF CS for All: Research Practitioner Partnership (CSforAll:RPP) solicitation. Over one-and-a-half days, teams will develop a deeper understanding of what an ...
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Call for Papers: Lifelong Learning Ecologies

Call for papers for a Special Section of The British Journal of Educational Technology “Lifelong learning Ecologies: linking formal and informal contexts of learning in the digital era”. Guest Editors Dr Albert Sangrá* and Dr Juliana E. Raffaghelli, Faculty of Psychology and ...
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AERA Grants Program – Informational Webinar on September 12

The AERA Grants Program is currently accepting proposals for both its Dissertation and Research Grants. With support from NSF the AERA Grants Program provides dissertation grants to graduate students and small research grants to doctoral level scholars using large-scale data ...
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Future of AI in Education Webinars

Alelo, in collaboration with SIIA (Software and Information Industry Association), is sponsoring a webinar series of the future of artificial intelligence in education and training. The purpose of these webinars is to give educators, technologists, and investors an understanding of ...
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Learning Science Graduate Student Conference

The Learning Sciences Graduate Student Conference is a two-day forum for emerging voices in the Learning Sciences and related fields to share and develop their ideas. With the aim of expanding apprenticeship, conference attendees will have opportunities to foster a ...
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Bright Spots RFI

Submissions due May 18 “Our ultimate goal is to dramatically improve middle years math instruction (grades 3-9), so that every Black, Latino, and low-income student deeply knows, is able to use, and enjoys math by the time they are in high ...
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Call: Contemporary Educational Psychology on Mobile Learning

1-2 pages summaries due May 15 The deadline to submit 1-2 page proposals to a special issue of Contemporary Educational Psychology on Mobile Learning is May 15. Guest editors Jeffrey Greene, Helen Crompton and Matt Bernacki look forward to your submissions, ...
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News from NSF and the U.S. Government

NSF DCL on Women in STEM Workforce – Due April 15

NSF DCL: Supporting the Re-Entry of Women and Women Veterans in the STEM Workforce through NSF INCLUDES invites supplemental funding requests for traineeships and conference proposals that support efforts aimed at enhancing the STEM knowledge base, skillset, leadership and management ...
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NSF HRD Solicitation – Due May 7

Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering – Frameworks (I-DIRSE-FW). The HDR Institutes activity seeks to create an integrated fabric of interrelated institutes that can accelerate discovery and innovation in multiple areas of data-intensive ...
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NSF Ideas Lab – Deadline Extended to March 4

NSF has extended the deadline for 2-page preliminary proposals to participate in an Ideas Lab related to harnessing data. The new deadline is March 4. See the NSF HDR Ideas Lab solicitation. “Ideas Labs” are mentored interactions in which a group ...
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CIRCL Update: Ideas Lab deadline extended, S&D Workshop Call for Participants, Neuroscience & Learning Webinar, Video Showcase, & More

Dear Colleague, We wanted to give you a quick heads up on several opportunities that have rapidly approaching deadlines; see below for details on each opportunity: NSF Ideas Lab preliminary proposals – deadline extended to March 4 Synthesis & Design workshop – call ...
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Call for Participants: The Future of Embodied Design for Mathematical Imagination and Cognition Workshop

May 20-22, 2019 at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, WI (USA). This 3-day workshop at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that will bring together a diverse collection of leading scholars in mathematical reasoning, teaching, and learning who are working on embodied ...
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NSF Ideas Lab Initiative supporting Harnessing the Data Revolution

A new NSF Ideas Lab Initiative supporting Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) describes one or more Ideas Lab(s) on Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering (DIRSE) as part of the HDR Institutes activity. These Ideas Labs represent one path of ...
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AccessCyberlearning 2.0 Capacity Building Institute

January 15-18, 2019 in Seattle, WA The AccessCyberlearning 2.0 Capacity Building Institute (CBI) will bring together researchers, graduate students, and leaders in NSF-funded Cyberlearning projects to engage with each other to explore how to make digital learning research, products, activities, and ...
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Workshop on Digitally-Mediated Team Learning

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided funding for 50 Travel Stipends to a synthesis and design workshop for researchers, educators, and practitioners who are advancing technology-enhanced team learning within STEM disciplines: During the two-and-a-half-day workshop, participants will be afforded ...
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NSF Program Director, Senior Advisor Positions

NSF has several open positions, including Program Director with expertise in STEM learning in informal environments, a permanent Senior Advisor for the Directorate for Education & Human Resources (EHR), and a temporary Senior Advisor position for EHR.
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RPP Fall Workshops – Apply by Oct 10

The Research+Practice Collaboratory is offering 4 workshops to support the CS for All community in its applications to the NSF CS for All: Research Practitioner Partnership (CSforAll:RPP) solicitation. Over one-and-a-half days, teams will develop a deeper understanding of what an ...
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