Learning Sciences and Technologies

EduSense: Like a Fitbit for Your Teaching Skills

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While training and feedback opportunities abound for K-12 educators, the same can't be said for instructors in higher education. Currently, the most effective mechanism for professional development is for an expert to observe a lecture and provide personalized feedback. But a new system developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers offers a comprehensive real-time sensing system that is inexpensive and scalable to create a continuous feedback loop for the instructor.

McLaren Will Promote Educational Technology in Chile on Fulbright

Fulbright Program Sponsors Three-Month Sojourn in Valparaiso

Bruce McLaren believes the moment is right to raise the status of educational technologies in Chile.

HCI Class Project Turned Entrepreneurship Lesson for Dedicated METALS Students

The work began as a group project for an elective HCI course.

Three Masters of Educational Technology and Applied Learning Science (METALS) students took the seminar-studio Learning Media Design course in Fall 2018 with instructor Marti Louw. This course focuses on the process of creating effective and engaging technology-enhanced learning experiences.

Online Atlas of Aquatic Insects Aids Water-Quality Monitoring

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New Tool Helps Even Novices Identify Insects Inhabiting Streams, Lakes and Rivers

A new online field guide to aquatic insects in the eastern United States, macroinvertebrates.org, promises to be an important tool for monitoring water quality, and support learning how to correctly identify the freshwater insects inhabiting rivers, lakes, and streams.

CMU, Yixue Education Inc. Announce AI Research Project in Adaptive K-12 Education

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Yixue Education Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University have announced a new multiyear partnership highlighted by a comprehensive artificial intelligence research lab.

The CMU-Squirrel AI Research Lab on Personalized Education at Scale will develop new ways for AI, machine learning, cognitive science and human computer interface technologies to improve the adaptive learning experiences of K–12 students around the world.

RoboTutor Team Awaits Global Learning XPRIZE Results

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Winning Team Gets $10 Million, but Ultimate Goal Is Boosting Literacy for Millions Worldwide

Team members of RoboTutor LLC — who have spent years developing open-source software that children can use to teach themselves basic reading, writing and mathematics — are anxiously awaiting the results of the Global Learning XPRIZE competition.

OpenSimon Toolkit To Make Every Classroom a Learning Laboratory

Carnegie Mellon’s learning engineering techniques, tools and materials now openly available

HCII Research at CHI 2019

Thousands of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (also known as CHI) this weekend. The premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction will take place in Glasgow, UK from May 4-9, 2019.

Four Receive Google Faculty Research Awards in HCI

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Four faculty members from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute have received 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards.

Google seeks to identify and strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with world-class computer science faculty researchers in areas of mutual interest. The goal of these collaborations is to impact how future generations use technology.

Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students

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A pair of separate, but complementary, research projects led by Carnegie Mellon University will use cutting-edge research in motivation, thinking, culturally affirming teaching and human-computer interaction to galvanize a community of teachers, mentors and parents around improving math achievement. These projects aim to support schools that serve black, Latinx and low-income students, and are supported by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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