8/01/2017-7/31/2020 PIs: Rebecca Hwa, Diane Litman, Amanda Godley University of Pittsburgh Award Details Writing and revising are essential parts of learning, yet many college students graduate without demonstrating improvement or […]
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EXP: To Enact, To Tell, To Write: A Bridge to Expressive Writing through Digital Enactment
9/01/2017-8/31/2020 PI: Sharon Lynn Chu, Francis Quek, Beverly Irby Texas A&M University Main Campus Award Details This cyberlearning project explores a novel approach, called Digitally-Augmented Enactment (DAE), to support learning […]
EXP: Inclusive Design for Engaging All Learners (IDEAL): Designing Technology for Cultural Brokering
1/1/17-7/31/18 PIs: Yanghee Kim, Sherry Marx, Tung Nguyen Utah State University Award Details In the United States today, children whose home language is not English make up about 21% of […]
EXP: Collaborative Research: Perception and Production in Second Language: The Roles of Voice Variability and Familiarity
PI: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Texas A&M (Award Details) PI: John Levis, Iowa State University (Award Details) The U.S. economy is boosted by many highly skilled professionals from non-English speaking countries, who […]
EXP: Collaborative Research: A Personalized Storyteller Companion to Promote Preschooler Language Skills
PIs: Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Award Details) Stephanie Gottwald, Tufts University (Award Details) Early language ability, including vocabulary skills and oral language knowledge during preschool, is an important […]
EXP: Transforming World Language Education using Social Robotics
PI: William Johnson, Kino Coursey Alelo Award Details This Cyberlearning Exploration Project explores the potential for social robotics to transform foreign-language learning. The social robot being developed in this project […]
DIP: EMBRACEing English Language Learners with Technology
PIs: Arthur Glenberg, Erin Walker, M. Adelaida Restrepo Arizona State University In this Cyberlearning: Transforming Education DIP (Development and Implementation) Project, the PIs focus on how to address the English-language […]
DIP: Collaborative Research: Social Robots as Mechanisms for Language Instruction, Interaction, and Evaluation in Pre-School Children
Cynthia Breazeal, MIT (Award Details) David DeSteno, Northeastern University (Award Details) Paul Harris, Harvard University (Award Details) This project is leveraging emerging technologies in social robotics with recent findings from […]
EXP: Exploring the Virtual World of Contextualized English Language Acquisition
PIs: Regina Mendez, Mary Beth Ogulewicz Springfield Technical Community College Award Details The PIs are aiming to investigate how virtual world 3D technology can be used to address the limited […]