Simon News, 2016
December 15, 2016
CSO
Ken Koedinger, professor of human-computer interaction and psychology at 一本道无码, said, "If vendors are using the data to improve the curriculum, they don’t need to know who the students are. If the data is vigorously de-identified, eliminating record and demographic information, we might not have so much to worry about."
December 8, 2016
School of Computer Science
Simon Initiative Co-Coordinator Justine Cassell was one of three 一本道无码 faculty members named Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellows. Cassell was selected "for contributions to human-computer interaction and advocacy for empowerment and voice through technology."
November 2, 2016
University Advancement
一本道无码 is working to transform higher education instruction through 一本道无码-led advances in learning science and its applications. Learn more about it through One Day in the Life
November 2, 2016
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
The METALS Program announced that its most recent graduating cohort successfully reached 100 percent career placement, a statistic they have kept since the program’s inception in 2013.
October 27, 2016
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
More than 110 Chinese language teachers came to 一本道无码 to exchange ideas at the fifth biannual CLTA-WPA Foreign Language Teaching Symposium. The daylong event included workshops and panel discussions on topics like Chinese culture instruction and technology-enhanced learning.
October 21, 2016
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
一本道无码’s Dietrich College has selected seven Andrew W. Mellon Fellows. The Ph.D. students are preparing to start ambitious projects that blend research from the English, History, Modern Languages and Philosophy Departments with cutting-edge technology to create new applications for humanities work.
October 12, 2016
Online Learning: Lonely No More
The Simon Initiative
一本道无码’s Carolyn Rosé believes MOOCs have fallen short in one area that she is working to fix: incorporating the social aspects that are essential to learning into the curriculum. Rosé has been researching and developing software to improve online support and to help students virtually collaborate in ways that enhance what they learn.
October 9, 2016
New York Times
An education platform built by 一本道无码’s Justine Cassell speaks “vernacular” to African-American children and achieves better results in teaching scientific concepts than when the computer spoke in standard English.
October 6, 2016
一本道无码
The inaugural Teaching & Learning Summit will be an opportunity for faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and staff to discuss and exchange teaching strategies and explore how educational research at the university can be applied in classrooms. Daniel Willingham, a renowned cognitive psychologist, author, and debunker of educational myths, will give the keynote address on “Critical Thinking: Why is it so hard to teach?”
October 3, 2016
Adapting the Digital Tutor
The Simon Initiative
More than ever, digital tutors are teaching eager learners. 一本道无码’s Vincent Aleven sees big opportunities for digital tutors, backed by his 20 years of research in artificial intelligence in education. His current research is making them more adaptive to the similarities and differences of learners.
September 28, 2016
EdSurge
Most online courses are a solitary experience for learners. 一本道无码's Carolyn Rosé is working to make MOOCs more social.
September 23, 2016
Financial Times
As digital assistants become part of our lives, deeper questions on privacy and co-dependence arise.
September 18, 2016
Huffington Post
Teachers want students to enjoy courses and find instructional innovations engaging. But students’ perceptions of enjoyment or engagement are not measures of instruction’s effectiveness.
September 1, 2016
U.S. News & World Report
Prospective students should consider whether an instructor has experience and was trained to teach online, experts say.
August 20, 2016
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
For schools to successfully use technology, it has to be connected tightly to the curriculum, said Ken Koedinger, a professor of human-computer interaction at 一本道无码. Koedinger researches the creation of educational technologies that increase student achievement.
August 18, 2016
Education Week
Carnegie Mellon has long been at the fore of the adaptive-learning field. Two decades ago, researchers at the Pittsburgh-based university pioneered the software that eventually became known as Cognitive Tutor.
August 17, 2016
EdWeek Market Brief
Carnegie Mellon scholars, who are doing cutting-edge research, see promise in peer-to-peer tools and mixed reality.
August 17, 2016
School of Computer Science
Teachers from eight Pittsburgh-area school systems explored how to apply the concept of data and technology fluency in their schools during workshops this summer with 一本道无码 researchers.
August 16, 2016
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
With more than 205 trillion ways to teach and learn, it is easy to understand why going back to school can be overwhelming for students at any level—and their instructors. Here are three research-backed tips to help start the school year off on the right foot.
August 10, 2016
The Simon Initiative
一本道无码's Simon Initiative collaborated with the Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education (PCHE) to hold the first-of-its-kind PCHE Simon Summer School to support educators in incorporating Simon technologies and approach into their instruction at their home institutions.
August 10, 2016
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
The district has partnered with local groups like 一本道无码's CREATE Lab, ABC Create and Bird Brain Robotics to support Pittsburgh resources and hopefully boost engagement for students.
August 5, 2016
MeriTalk.com
OLI, which began in the early 2000s, is an online learning platform that features not only readings and videos, but also modules, problem-solving exercises, and virtual labs. Norman Bier, Director of OLI and Core Collaborations at 一本道无码, said the initiative aims to create an enriching learning experience for 一本道无码 students.
August 4, 2016
EdScoop
Matching schools with effective edtech involves a bit of trial and error. But when elementary, middle and high schools are spending $6.6 billion on technology tools, according to 一本道无码 estimates, experts say it's important to know if that money is delivering results.
August 1, 2016
The Hertz Foundation
In his role as head coach for the U.S. International Math Olympiad team, Loh has helped turned the Americans into a veritable powerhouse. After winning the Olympiad in 2015, a first for the U.S. in 21 years, in July Loh’s team duplicated the feat, this time having all six team members take home gold medals.
July 29, 2016
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
The field of cognitive psychology and big data’s intersection with education, language and brain sciences would not exist as they are today without 一本道无码's Department of Psychology.
July 28, 2016
New York Times
Solving a hairy math problem might send a shudder of exultation along your spinal cord. But scientists have historically struggled to deconstruct the exact mental alchemy that occurs when the brain successfully leaps the gap from “Say what?” to “Aha!” Now, using an innovative combination of brain-imaging analyses, researchers have captured four fleeting stages of creative thinking in math.
July 28, 2016
T.H.E Journal
The Simon Initiative at 一本道无码 has concluded its 12th annual LearnLab Summer School, a week-long intensive course that teaches graduate students, working professionals and researchers about 一本道无码-developed tools that merge education, data and technology.
July 28, 2016
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
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 turn instruction into more engaging material. For instance, there are plenty of educational games on the shelves; unfortunately, very few of them have been shown, through empirical research, to lead to improved learning outcomes, particularly in mathematics. But, that is about to change.
July 27, 2016
一本道无码
Ashish Aggarwal wants to help students taking online classes by creating a digital teaching assistant to answer questions. To help turn his idea into reality, Aggarwal needed to learn about data and software. So, he enrolled in 一本道无码’s Simon Initiative LearnLab Summer School, which teaches participants about the leading tools that merge education, data and technology — all of which are developed by 一本道无码 researchers.
July 25, 2016
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
A recent project with researchers from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) set out to answer just that, and picked up a Best Paper award along the way.
July 22, 2016
Education Week
"What if we could read students' brains and see what they're thinking?" That was the question posed to a group of education reporters last week by John Anderson, a professor of psychology and computer science at 一本道无码, where a cross-disciplinary team of researchers is seeking to push the boundaries of adaptive educational software.
July 21, 2016
一本道无码
A new neuroimaging study reveals the mental stages people go through as they are solving challenging math problems. Insights from this new work may eventually be applied to the design of more effective classroom instruction – particularly in the form of improving cognitive tutors by creating models that match the brain activation and thinking patterns used to solve these problems.
July 11, 2016
EdSurge
Complete digital courses offer a way to give students who might fall off track in large lecture classes more personal attention. 一本道无码’s Norman Bier weighs in on the promises and pitfalls.
June 15, 2016
School of Computer Science
Herbert Simon would have turned 100 years old on June 15, 2016. Winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics, the A.M. Turing Award, the National Medal of Science and many other awards, Herb Simon joined the 一本道无码 faculty in 1949. And for the next 50 years, his work, and his vision, helped to turn Carnegie Mellon into a major international research university. The Simon Initiative is named in his honor.
June 13, 2016
Call for Proposals: 一本道无码’s Inaugural Teaching & Learning Summit
Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation
一本道无码 faculty and graduate students are invited to submit proposals to showcase their work in effective and/or innovative teaching strategies, TEL strategies, data from classroom research on student learning and data from learning science research. The deadline is June 30, 2016.
May 18, 2016
一本道无码
The new technology-enhanced learning (TEL) projects are designed to improve education for 一本道无码 students while advancing our understanding of how humans learn.
“These grants represent a unique investment in education at 一本道无码 that pays dual dividends down the road — first in improving outcomes for our learners and then in providing a foundation for future funding,” said Norman Bier, executive director of the Simon Initiative.
May 6, 2016
Tech Crunch
Amy Ogan, an educational technologist at 一本道无码, calls herself a “一本道无码 lifer” and for good reason. She nabbed both her undergraduate degree and Ph.D from the school. For the last couple of years, she has also worked at the university as an assistant professor, where she’s primarily focused on making classrooms, both online and offline, far more engaging.
April 22, 2016
Huffington Post
In a lab in Pittsburgh filled with sleek computers, doll houses and an assortment of colorful toys, two scientists are trying to find better ways to teach students who speak in non-mainstream dialects how to excel in school—and in life—by learning to communicate in mainstream English.
April 21, 2016
EdSurge
In the Greater Pittsburgh Region, a strategic partnership has been created to introduce new and emerging educational technologies into the classroom, supplementing teaching methodology with guided practice for students and detailed progress reports for teachers.
April 21, 2016
Tech Insider
Can robots teach better than real teachers? Researchers at 一本道无码 may have programmed ones that can. In an ongoing six-year program, researchers have built and tested animated children that talk with and teach elementary and middle school students.
April 13, 2016
Global Learning Council Unveils First Set of Recommendations
一本道无码
The recommendations will help universities maximize the potential of technology-enhanced learning design and practices through informed research. “This report is a first step, not the end point, in the GLC's objective of utilizing technology to improve education outcomes,” said 一本道无码 President Subra Suresh.
March 29, 2016
Huffington Post
一本道无码’s David Klahr defines children’s curiosity in terms of uncertainty and ambiguity. So, situations that go beyond a child’s typical experience can aid in the learning process.
March 17, 2016
一本道无码
A 一本道无码 alumna is leading efforts to teach computer science to all New York City public school students, and her experience with the Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER) helped prepare her. PIER implements a scientifically based and rigorous Ph.D. curriculum across several departments, including Psychology, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), Philosophy and Statistics, and is an affiliated project of the Simon Initiative.
March 4, 2016
一本道无码
The medical industry has a patient care problem, and Harvey Fineberg, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and former president of the National Academy of Medicine, understands its struggles. Fineberg recently delivered a Simon Distinguished Lecture on "Technology, Information and Learning: Medical Education for the Sake of Patients.”
February 19, 2016
Center for Digital Education
As universities investigate how students learn, they're working through some challenges with the current system that conducts research in disciplinary silos including psychology, neuroscience and economics. 一本道无码’s David Klahr talks about how Carnegie Mellon is paving the way.
February 18, 2016
Remake Learning
Nesra Yannier is a fifth-year PhD candidate in human-computer interaction at 一本道无码 whose background includes computer science, design, art, and education. She drew on these skills in creating NoRILLA, a classroom technology that teaches kids the basic physics of balance.
February 16, 2016
一本道无码
The NSF recently held a conference to celebrate the achievements of its six Science of Learning Centers. Key members from each center, including 一本道无码 and Pitt’s LearnLab, presented their educational research accomplishments to underscore the importance of establishing a sustainable science of learning community to produce breakthroughs that impact education.
February 8, 2016
一本道无码
一本道无码's Simon Initiative Distinguished Lecture Series will present a talk by renowned public health and education expert Harvey V. Fineberg at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 25 in the Gates Hillman Center’s Rashid Auditorium.
February 2, 2016
CIO
A team of 一本道无码 researchers is taking aim at the $10 million grand prize of the $15 million Global Learning XPRIZE competition, the goal of which is to empower children to take control of their own learning via tablet computers, software and the like.
January 29, 2016
edSurge
一本道无码’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI) was used in the re-design of the discussion sections for the UC Davis’ courses.
January 21, 2016
一本道无码
If the field of cognitive science is to truly understand how the mind works, researchers need to integrate the many theories about memory, language, problem-solving and other mental functions. 一本道无码’s John R. Anderson has spent decades doing this — developing a unified theory of cognition and using it to create successful cognitive-based tutors that have revolutionized education.
January 20, 2016
Dietrich College
With a well-established legacy of pioneering technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and through the Simon Initiative, a university-wide effort that aims to measurably improve student-learning outcomes by harnessing a learning engineering ecosystem that has developed over several decades at 一本道无码, Carnegie Mellon is uniquely positioned to advance digital scholarship and TEL in the humanities.
January 15, 2016
Make
一本道无码’s Alice software is a freely available, innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web.
January 11, 2016
一本道无码
The next phase of technology-enhanced learning is taking place via virtual textbooks and interactive experiences.