PI: Jonathan Spector University of North Texas Award Details The International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies provides a forum for interchange of ideas around designing technological support for learning and training. This project supports an Early Career Symposium at the conference which allows early career scholars to receive mentoring from established cyberlearning researchers from both […]
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CAP: Building Partnerships for Education and Speech Research
PIs: Chad Dorsey, Cynthia D’Angelo Concord Consortium Award Details A new age of technology is dawning on the field of speech recognition and analysis. This has begun to become publicly visible through the increasing availability of impressive tools such as Siri and Google Translate, but these consumer-ready tools only scratch the surface of the potential […]
CAP: Data Science, Learning and Youth: Connecting Research and Creating Frameworks
PIs: Michelle Wilkerson-Jerde, Tapan Parikh, Joseph Polman, Victor Lee Tufts University Award Details This project focuses on a workshop exploring the application of data science to K-12 education. It is motivated by the importance that reasoning with data has in today’s world. The workshop is entitled Data Science, Learning and Youth: Connecting Research and Creating […]
CAP: Building a Cyberlearning Research Program: An Early Career Symposium
PI: Fei Gao Bowling Green State University Award Details This project funds a training and mentorship workshop for doctoral students and early career faculty in the field of Instructional Design and Technology to learn about Cyberlearning research community at the main instructional design conference. The Annual Meeting of the Association for Education Communications and Technology […]
CAP: Doctoral Consortium for the 2015 Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference
PI: Stephanie Teasley University of Michigan Ann Arbor Award Details Using data analytics has revolutionized many academic disciplines, such as Astrophysics and Biology. In addition, it has changed the commercial world and critical services like healthcare. The field of education research is also beginning this change. The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) is a […]
CAP: Innovating Data-driven Methodologies for Documenting and Studying Informal Learning
PIs: Leilah Lyons, Stephen Uzzo, Kemi Jona New York Hall of Science Award Details This project supports a workshop in which experts in museums, informal learning, complex systems, and data science collaborate with technologists to examine what types of technologies could help track how learners behave, and learn, in museums and other informal learning locations. […]
CAP: Advancing Technology and Practice for Learning Reading and Writing Skills in Secondary Science Education
PIs: Rebecca Passonneau, Smaranda Muresan, Dolores Perin Columbia University Award Details The proposed workshop brings together researchers and educators to discuss how to advance technology and practice to better promote secondary school science literacy. There is a clear need for new directions in science literacy. Over the past decade, the National Center for Education Statistics […]
CAP: Building a Cyberlearning Research Program – An Early Career Symposium
PI: Ana-Paula Correia Iowa State University Award Details The Annual Meeting of the Association for Education Communications and Technology (AECT) provides a forum for interchange of ideas around designing technological support for learning and training. Its Early Career Symposia provide an avenue for early career scholars to receive mentoring from established researchers. This project supports […]
CAP: Towards Inclusive Design of Serious Games for Learning
PIs: Yasmin Kafai, Brendesha Tynes, Gabriela Richard University of Pennsylvania Award Details Serious games and games for learning are designed to foster learning or engagement with real-world events or processes or for solving complex problems. Citizen involvement in serious games and games for learning has increased exponentially in the last decade. At the same time, […]
Workshop: Improving Capacity for Game-Based Research to Scale
PI: Kurt Squire University of Wisconsin-Madison Award Details A growing number of educators are looking to game-based learning approaches to increase interest in and understanding of major science mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) concepts. Serious games have demonstrated the capacity to engage learners in complex domains through role playing and problem solving. A key hypothesis […]