9/1/16-8/31/19 PIs: Haoqi Zhang, Elizabeth Gerber, Matthew Easterday Northwestern University Award Details This project will advance undergraduate and graduate research training in STEM by designing organizational processes and cyberlearning technologies that support self-directed learning within a community of researchers. Faculty mentoring, research experience, and authentic problem solving increase undergraduate performance and retention in STEM, especially […]
Tag Archives: Communities for learning
DIP: Connecting Idea Threads across Communities for Sustained Knowledge Building
PIs: Jianwei Zhang, Marlene Scardamalia, Mei-Hwa Chen, Carolyn Rose SUNY at Albany Award Details An important issue in education is encouraging learners to engage in sustained inquiry around important content and helping them to continually refine their understandings. Technology already exists to help communities of learners (e.g., those in a class) keep track of the […]
DIP: ScienceKit for ScienceEverywhere – A Seamless Scientizing Ecosystem for Raising Scientifically-Minded Children
PIs: Tamara Clegg, June Ahn, Jason Yip University of Maryland College Park Award Details Although for years researchers have believed technology could afford anytime-anywhere learning, we still don’t understand how learners behave differently across contexts, such as home, school, and in the community, and how to get youth to identify as learners across those contexts. […]
DIP: Potential for everyday learning in a virtual community: A design-based investigation
PIs: Janis Dickinson, Rhiannon Crain Cornell University Award Details This project team aims to explore how to foster learning in socially-networked communities, particularly learning that results in behavior change. Understanding how to foster such learning could have a wide variety of societal impacts, e.g., better fostering science, engineering, mathematical, or design thinking in school or […]
EAGER: Engineering Inquiry for All at Nedlam’s Workshop
PIs: R. Benjamin Shapiro, Brian Gravel, Chris Rogers Tufts University Award Details This exploratory project will research how teachers learn to adapt open-ended, self-directed, and fabrication-rich maker space pedagogy and technology to school settings in ways that are responsive to the needs and interests of the students, their families, and the surrounding community. Maker culture […]
EAGER: WeatherBlur
PI: Ruth Kermish-Allen Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance Award Details One promising approach to support learning is the use of online learning communities. Another approach is place-based education, in which people learn about concepts through their application in the places people know: their homes, towns, and regions. This project examines an existing experimental online community […]
INDP: Collaborative Research: Coding for All: Interest-Driven Trajectories to Computational Fluency
PIs: Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk, MIT (Award Details) Mizuko Ito, University of California-Irvine (Award Details) Urs Gasser, Harvard University (Award Details) This Cyberlearning Integration and Deployment (INDP) project brings together an interdisciplinary research team from the MIT Media Lab, the Digital Media and Learning Hub at University of California Irvine, and Harvard University’s Berkman Center […]
EXP: Exploring Social Programming Environments in Early Computing Courses
PIs: Christopher Hundhausen, Olusola Adesope Washington State University Award Details Washington State University will design and study the educational affordances of a social programming environment (SPE), a technology-rich learning environment centered around a social networking-style activity stream of learners’ problem-solving activities and progress. Through an iterative, participatory design process involving students and instructors at Washington […]
DIP: Community Knowledge Construction in the Instrumented Classroom
PIs: Thomas Moher, James Slotta, Joel Brown University of Illinois at Chicago Award Details In this Cyberlearning: Transforming Education DIP (Development and Implementation) project, the PIs are addressing challenges of knowledge community pedagogy, where students are given a high level of agency and responsibility for developing questions, exchanging and critiquing ideas with peers, and advancing […]
EXP: Digital Lofts: Online Learning Environments for Real-World Innovation
PIs: Matthew Easterday, Elizabeth Gerber Northwestern University Award Details In this Cyberlearning: Transforming Education EXP project, researchers focus on developing the civic innovators of the future. To become civic innovators, learners must gain experience tackling complex, ill-structures design challenges that are not easily solved by a single individual within a fixed time frame. Such education […]
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