Learning Sciences and Technologies

Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students

Ken Koedinger converses with others in the hallway during the LearnLab summer school poster session

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.

Carnegie Mellon to Release Digital Learning Software Tools as Open-Source

Carnegie Mellon University stone sign in the foreground, people walking up steps in the background

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

WGU and CMU Partner to Develop AI-Enabled Career Guidance Technology

National Science Foundation awards universities $700,000 grant to kick off 3-year research project

Ogan Named to World Economic Forum's Young Scientists 2018

Amy Ogan, the Thomas and Lydia Moran Assistant Professor of Learning Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has been named to the World Economics Forum's 2018 list of Young Scientists.

Several from HCII Involved with 2018 Educational Data Mining Conference

Ken Koedinger speaks at the Educational Data Mining Conference 2018

From speaking to event planning, three members of the Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute contributed to the 11^th annual Educational Data Mining Conference held in Buffalo, NY, Sunday, July 15 through Wednesday, July 18, 2018.

HCII PhD Students Return from London Festival of Learning with 3 Awards

PhD students Madaio and Holstein with their awards at London Festival of Learning

Many experts from the learning sciences and educational technologies communities gathered at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Education in London last week for not one but three conferences during the London Festival of Learning.

ClassInSight

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

Digital Exhibit Labels: Enhancement or Distraction for Museum Visitors

the Bronze Age Innovations display with digital rails in the front at the Field Museum

Does a touchscreen display distract visitors from the cultural museum artifacts it supports?

A team of learning scientists and computer scientists collaborated with museum curators to analyze the role of digital display technology in visitor learning in a collections-based exhibit.

HCII at CHI 2018

Over 3,000 of the world’s top researchers, scientists, and designers are traveling to Montréal this week for CHI 2018, the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction will take place from April 21-26, 2018.

PhD and Postdoc Win Gold Awards at Reimagine Education Competition

Nesra Yannier and Ken Holstein holding their award checks at the Reimagine Education competition

Using mixed-reality to reimagine the classroom from both sides -- an Intelligent Science Station for students and smart glasses for teachers -- earned Gold Awards for an HCII PhD student and Postdoc in the 2017-18 Reimagine Education competition.

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