Learning Sciences and Technologies

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.

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

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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.

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