HCII Spinoff Carnegie Learning Announces International Partnership and Multiple Educational Technology Honors
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Carnegie Learning Inc. has announced a three-year partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and universities in Mexico, Central America, and South America to develop Cognitive Tutor® math software for secondary school students that is adapted to the regional contexts and languages of their countries. The goal of the partnership is to understand how innovative, research-based math instruction can integrate with educational systems in these countries to help improve student math performance. The project is supported by a grant from Inter-American Development Bank which partners with governments and the private sector to combat poverty and foster social equity in 26 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. [Press release]
Carnegie Learning develops and publishes research-based mathematics courses that employ Cognitive Tutor technology developed at Carnegie Mellon. More than 500,000 students a year in more than 2500 U.S. schools are enrolled in Carnegie Learning’s Cognitive Tutor math courses. The company was co-founded in 1998 by Carnegie Mellon University and HCII faculty John Anderson, Albert Corbett, Ken Koedinger, and Vincent Aleven.
The company was one of a select group of education industry providers that were invited this spring to demonstrate the role of technology on the future of learning and education in an event at the U.S. House of Representatives Rayburn Office Building, hosted by The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).
Carnegie Learning also received two educational technology awards this spring:
- It received the Best in Tech Award for the 2008–2009 school year from Scholastic Administrator Magazine. [Press release]
- Carnegie Learning® Adaptive Math was named the Best Mathematics Instructional Solution by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), which presented the company with a 24th Annual CODiE Award. This is the third CODiE Award given to Carnegie Learning in recognition for the delivery of effective middle school and high school math software solutions. [Press release]