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Teaching at CMUCall for Proposals: Simon Initiative Seed Grants
The Simon Initiative is accepting proposals for Simon Initiative Seed grants from CMU faculty interested in pursuing learning research or educational practice projects aimed at improving student learning outcomes. Submit by Wednesday, March 1, 2023.

uls-kumar-garg.jpegKumar Garg on the Future of Learning Engineering
Kumar Garg from Schmidt Futures will present his 2022 Simon Initiative Distinguished Lecture, "Shaping the Field of Learning Engineering," at an in-person-only event at 5 p.m. on Nov. 7, 2022 in Carnegie Mellon University's Rangos Ballroom. In this Q&A, Garg explained why the field of learning engineering is at a crucial juncture. 

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Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science researchers in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute will use a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to develop and test a smartphone-based tutoring system for middle school mathematics that's rooted in artificial intelligence.

norilla-spain-web.jpgAI-Powered Museum Exhibit Shows Technology's Potential in Education 
NoRILLA, a project from the School of Computer Science's Human-Computer Interaction Institute that uses artificial intelligence to assist children in hands-on educational experiments is one of six AI-focused projects selected for an exhibit at CaixaForum Valencia, a new museum in Valencia, Spain.

xprize-bier-stamper-900x600-min.jpegCMU Team Advances to Final Round of $1M XPRIZE Competition
John Stamper, Norman Bier and Steven Moore are part of a multi-university team that has advanced to the final round of the XPRIZE Digital Learning Challenge. The team has created a tool, Experiments as a Service Infrastructure (EASI), that educators can use to conduct experiments in the classroom.

classroom-experimentation-stamper-900x600-min.jpegThe Future of Classroom Experimentation
CMU and its partners were recently awarded a nearly $3 million National Science Foundation grant to fund a new framework for adaptive experimentation in classrooms and digital learning spaces. John Stamper answers questions about what his team of multidisciplinary researchers hopes to achieve.

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CMU learning scientists are partnering with Yiya AirScience to improve the technology for their virtual classroom.


online-learning-900x600.pngDepartment of Modern Languages launches online language courses
CMU's Department of Modern Languages announced the launch of its new online language programs for Chinese, French, and Spanish. Part of Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative, the online courses provide innovative, flexible, and affordable options for students, independent learners, and instructors looking to enhance their language education.

asu-cmu-900x600.jpegUniversities Partner To Make Chemistry More Equitable
Carnegie Mellon University and Arizona State University partner to develop more equitable general chemistry courseware with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Named for the late Nobel and Turing Award laureate Herbert Simon, this initiative harnesses a cross-disciplinary, learning-engineering ecosystem that has developed over several decades at CMU with the goal of measurably improving student learning outcomes. Learn more.

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"We are not going to succeed [in education] unless we really turn the problem around and first specify the kinds of things students ought to be doing: what are the cost-effective and time-effective ways by which students can proceed to learn. We need to carry out the analysis that is required to understand what they have to do — what activities will produce the learning —and then ask ourselves how the technology can help us do that."

— Herbert Simon (1998)