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Koedinger To Lead NSF-Funded LearnSphere Project

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Ken Koedinger

HCII Professor Ken Koedinger will lead a five-year, $5 million early implementation project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to improve educational outcomes and advance the science of learning by creating a large, distributed infrastructure called LearnSphere that will securely store data on how students learn.

By accessing more than 550 datasets generated from interactive tutoring systems, educational games and massively open online courses, or MOOCs, course developers and instructors will improve teaching and learning through data-driven course design. Mining this educational data also will help researchers obtain deeper insight into how people learn.

Koedinger will be joined by colleagues from CMU, MIT, Stanford University and the University of Memphis. “We’ve seen the power that data has to improve performance in many fields, from medicine to movie recommendations,” he said. “Educational data holds the same potential to guide the development of courses that enhance learning. Gathering more of this data also promises to give us a deeper understanding of the learning process.”

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