Learning Sciences and Technologies

Across a range of real-world contexts, we are studying how AI is currently being designed and used to augment or transform worker practices. Moving beyond...

While much of education research is focused on student performance, this research turns the focus to the development of the teacher....

Our Connection Machines project investigates nonverbal and verbal behaviors of two partners in a conversation setting in the context of rapport. We have c...

The AdaptErrEx project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, has developed materials to support learning of decimals through erroneous examples. Th...

In this project, we aim to address the systematically-reduced standardized test scores of African American students compared to their Euro-American peers ...

Working and living internationally can be a rewarding but difficult experience. This project investigates how people gain intercultural competence while d...

If Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are the democratizing educational innovation that many claim them to be, then why do the largest proportion of MOOC...

The LASAD project is focused on helping students learn to argue, debate and think critically by working collaboratively on a webpage that allows creation ...

This research aims to improve student learning effectiveness, efficiency, and enjoyment in online courses (aka MOOCs) by using online learning data to pro...

When it comes to learning math, how much fun you are having is rarely factored into the equation. That isn't to say that game designers have not tried to ...

Based on our experiences with designing and engineering multi-party conversational environments such as collaborative learning systems that involve integr...

This project aims to better support student learning by adapting computer-based tutoring to individual learning phases and real-time capabilities. The sp...

VizWiz answers questions that people who are blind or visually impaired have about the things around them. Users take a photo, ask a question, and receive...

Cell phone applications that enable children in the villages and slums in the developing world to acquire language and literacy in immersive, game-like en...

SimStudent is a synthetic student that learns cognitive skills from worked-out examples (i.e., demonstrated solutions) and through tutored problem-solving...

Computational Modeling and Data Mining is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. This thrust is pursuing the scientific goa...

Metacognition and Motivation is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It has the goals of developing a better understanding of...

Social and Communicative Factors is one of four thrusts within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. The research investigates how human linguistic i...

Cognitive Factors is one of four thrusts of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center. It is aimed at understanding cognitive learning—changes in knowledg...

The ACT-R project focuses on developing a robust and general cognitive architecture and applying it to the modeling of human interaction with complex dyna...

Cognitive Tutors have been successful in raising students’ math test scores in high-school and middle-school classrooms, but their development requires co...

An automated Reading Tutor displays stories on a computer screen, listens to children read aloud, adapts Carnegie Mellon’s Sphinx-II speech recognizer to ...

The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center is leveraging computational theory and cognitive modeling to identify the instructional conditions that cause ro...

The Physics Teaching Web Advisory (Pathway) is creating a proof-of-concept demonstration of a new type of digital library for physics teaching. It brings ...

The PACT Center uses cognitive tutor technology to create an integrated classroom and computer lab curriculum that supports students’ understanding of mat...

This study builds on recent empirical work about user-centered design and effectiveness of high level IETMs (Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals) and...

This project seeks to increase kids’ engagement with math learning in connection with Cognitive Tutors using support for help seeking and collaborative pr...

The great bulk of currently available "online courses" are no more than inconvenient textbooks. Our project is an ongoing effort to make online courseware...

The Active Learning and Problem Solving (ALPS) project involves constructing and evaluating educational technology that emulates human tutors by integrati...

We are developing a tool called Alice that allows novice programmers to author interactive 3D virtual worlds. By identifying the unnecessary challenges of...