Learning Sciences and Technologies

In the Enhance Project, learning scientists collaborate with education agencies to improve how states assess their students. Drawing upon the fields of le...

LearnSphere is a community data infrastructure to support learning improvement online. It integrates educational data and analysis repositories to offer ...

NoRILLA is a patented mixed-reality educational system bridging physical and virtual worlds to improve STEM learning. Research at Carnegie Mellon Universi...

The MEME Project’s goal is to produce better educational outcomes by increasing motivation, learning, and self-regulation....

The PLUS project is improving the learning outcomes for marginalized students by "squaring" the power of both human and computer tutoring. Our Personalize...

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...