9/1/19-8/31/22 PIs: Carolyn Rose, Majd Sakr, Michael Hilton Carnegie-Mellon University Award Details The World Economic Forum estimates that up to 5 million jobs may be lost to disruptive labor changes by 2020, a development that leads to concerns regarding unemployment, underemployment, and the need for workers to reskill. This project explores how to address this […]
Tag Archives: Collaborative and/or participatory learning
Designing and Evaluating a Naturalistic Platform for Collaborative Learning About Spatial Reasonings
9/1/18-8/31/21 PIs: Marcelo Worsley, David Uttal Northwestern University Award Details Spatial reasoning and computational thinking are essential knowledge for future workers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Researchers in this project will design and study an intelligent multimodal interface to support elementary and middle school students to learn these cognitive skills on a collaborative […]
Connections of Earth and Sky with Augmented Reality (CEASAR): Transforming Collaborative Learning Practices with Shared and Embedded Digital Models
10/1/18-9/30/20 PIs: Robb Lindgren, Nathan Kimball, Emma Mercier, Jina Kang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Award Details Augmented reality (AR) technologies are becoming increasingly accessible and there are promising opportunities to develop interactive virtual content that can be shared and worked on by multiple users. The Connections of Earth and Sky to Augmented Reality (CEASAR) […]
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 […]
Student and Early-Career Support for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2019 Conference
5/1/19-4/31/20 PI: Katerine Bielaczyc, Victor Lee Clark University Award Details Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is a bi-annual interdisciplinary international conference supporting advanced research in learning technologies in support of collaborative learning. Providing doctoral student and early-career support for attending this conference in prior years has had a significant impact on the career and research of […]
Synthesis and Design Workshop: Distributed Collaboration in STEM-Rich Project-Based Learning
9/1/18-8/31/19 PI: Eric Hamilton Pepperdine University Award Details This project will convene a synthesis and design workshop on next generation science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning. It envisions a two-tier timeline that looks three years and then ten years into the future. One primary workshop topic involves design considerations for “boundary-crossing” project-based learning, by […]
Synthesis and Design Workshop: Digitally-Mediated Team Learning
9/1/18-8/31/19 PIs: Ronald DeMara, Samuel Spiegel, Laurie Campbell, Charles Hartshorne, Joseph Beck University of Central Florida Award Details This workshop will convene on Sunday, March 31st, 2019 (posters 3:00PM) to Tuesday, April 2, 2019 in Orlando, FL. A limited number of Travel Stipends are available. Learn more and apply. This project will convene a workshop […]
ROBO-VI: A Virtual-Internship-Based Hybrid Learning Technology to Prepare Traditional and Non-Traditional Students to Work with Collaborative Robots
8/15/18-7/31/21 PIs: Bilge Mutlu, Andrew Ruis, David Shaffer University of Wisconsin-Madison Award Details Collaborative robots are emerging as a new family of advanced technologies that are designed to work side-by-side with people in industrial settings. These robots can improve the productivity and flexibility in manufacturing and logistics industries, while also assisting workers in repetitive, and […]
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: Improving Student Help-Giving with Ubiquitous Collaboration Support Technology
8/01/2017-7/31/2020 PI: Erin Walker University of Pittsburgh Award Details Students benefit from helping their peers: Help-givers improve their knowledge of the domain as a result of trying to explain it to others, and they become more confident in their abilities to solve problems. However, students need guidance to be successful at giving help. This research […]