9/1/18-8/31/21 PIs: Amy Ogan, Yuvraj Agarwal, Christopher Harrison Carnegie-Mellon University Award Details For years, research has shown that moving away from large lectures and increasing student engagement and participation in classrooms significantly improves learning. Unfortunately, professors lack quality professional development opportunities to improve their instruction, and typically receive no training on how to teach. This […]
Tag Archives: AI / Machine learning
EAGER: Discussion Tracker: Development of Human Language Technologies to Improve the Teaching of Collaborative Argumentation in High School English Classrooms
9/1/18-8/31/19 PIs: Amanda Godley, Diane Litman University of Pittsburgh Award Details Collaborative argumentation – the building of evidence-based, reasoned knowledge and solutions through dialogue – is essential to individual learning as well as group problem-solving in STEM and other disciplines and a defining characteristic of 21st century workplaces. However, teaching collaborative argumentation is an advanced […]
Putting Teachers in the Driver’s Seat: Using Machine Learning to Personalize Interactions with Students (DRIVER-SEAT)
9/1/18-8/31/21 PIs: Anthony Botelho, Neil Heffernan, Jacob Whitehill, Korinn Ostrow Worcester Polytechnic Institute Award Details This is a project that will use machine learning to personalize messages about student homework. The project will apply technologies used by Google’s Smart Reply, a functionality that uses machine learning to generate and suggest human-like email responses, to provide […]
Support for Doctoral Students to Attend the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2019)
5/1/19-4/31/20 PI: Bruce McLaren Carnegie-Mellon University Award Details The United States has historically been the global leader in the field of artificial intelligence in education (AIED), or ways to use artificial intelligence technology to enhance teaching and learning in contexts ranging from children learning math in K12 setting, to soldiers learning highly technical jobs in […]
Synthesis and design workshop: Designing Scalable Advanced Learning Ecosystems
9/1/18-8/31/19 PIs: Robert Kadel, Yakut Gazi, Stephen Harmon, Ashok Goel Georgia Tech Research Corporation Award Details The U.S. is currently at a crossroads in higher education where access to quality post-secondary education is a prerequisite for entry into the middle class but the ability to afford such an education is becoming increasingly limited. Georgia Tech […]
Synthesis and Design Workshop: Weaving the Fabric of Adaptive STEM Learning Environments Across Domains and Settings
9/1/18-8/31/19 PIs: Roy Pea, Shuchi Grover, Bryan Brown Stanford University Award Details This workshop is funded through the “Dear Colleague Letter: Principles for the Design of Digital Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Learning Environments (NSF 18-017).” The goal of this workshop is to articulate a transformative vision of future STEM learning for diverse learners […]
Human/AI Co-Orchestration of Dynamically-Differentiated Collaborative Classrooms
9/1/18-8/31/21 PIs: Vincent Aleven, Nikol Rummel Carnegie-Mellon University Award Details This project will create and demonstrate new technology that supports dynamically-differentiated instruction for the classroom of the future. This new vision centers on carefully-designed partnerships between teachers, students, and artificial intelligence (AI). AI-powered learning software will support students during problem-solving practice, providing either individual guidance […]
EXP: Collaborative Research: Empowering Learners to Conduct Experiments
9/01/2017-8/31/2019 PI: Casper Harteveld, Gillian Smith Northeastern University Award Details This project seeks to transform current practices in the teaching of scientific research methods by shifting the fundamental dynamics and focusing in a scientific domain that is relatable to a broad audience: designing and conducting social and behavioral science experiments. Scientific inquiry is key to […]
CAP: The Seventh Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-17)
9/1/16-8/31/18 PIs: Eric Eaton Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Award Details The Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, affiliated with the AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) conference in San Francisco in February 2017 is a premier venue for sharing knowledge about how to use AI in education and how […]
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