Carnegie Mellon University

Previous recipients of Simon Seed Grants (previously ProSEED) are listed here.

Round 5 (Fall 2018)

  • “Sharing Student Models for Adaptivity and Innovation,” (Aleven, SCS)
  • “Tepper Ready,” (Barraclough, Tepper)
  • “Augmenting Declarative Instruction,” (Brasier, MCS)
  • “Hammock Support for Quality TEL Assessments,” (Cervesato, SCS)
  • “Technology-enabled hands-on activities for science knowledge enrichment in preschool children from low socioeconomic backgrounds,” (Fisher, DC)
  • “Deploying Educational Technology with Fidelity: Capitalizing on Research from Biomedicine,” (Herckis, Prov, DC, CS)
  • “VR for Speaking,” (Hyatt, Heinz)
  • “Think Alouds, Student Engagement,” (Nugent, DC)
  • “Rapid Development of Learning Tools,” (Sakr, SCS)
  • “Facilitating the Creation of Online Learning Activities for Propositional Logic,” (Sutner, SCS)

 

Round 4 (Fall 2017)

  • “Scaling The Gallery: A tool to support applied maker-based education through Project Documentation and Distributed Critique,” (Byrne, CFA)
  • “Accelerated Apprenticeship - Teaching Data Science Problem Solving Skills at Scale,” (Dubrawski, SCS, Heinz)
  • “TEL Environment for Strengthening Cohesion in Writing,” (Ishizaki, DC)
  • “Scaffolded active learning to support learning of scientific principles,” (Manke, DC, SCS)
  • “Creating Database tools for Creative Storytelling with Mobile Technology,” (Shae, CFA)
  • “Improving and Monitoring Instruction and Learning in Modern Chemistry II Through an Open Learning Initiative (OLI) Course,” (Yaron, MCS)

 

Round 3 (Spring, 2016)

  • “Using Interactive Lab Activities to Improve Statistics Education,” (Chouldechova, Heinz, DC)
  • “Teaching Programming to Engineering Students Using TEL,” (Liu, CIT)
  • “Creating Digital Vienna 1900,” (Maier, DC)
  • “Assisting and Analyzing Children’s Learning Without School,” (Mastow, SCS, HCII)
  • “Understanding Students' Intrinsic Motivations for Engaging with TEL,” (Rohrbach, CA)
  • “Video-Based Tutorials of Biological Experiments,” (Subramanian, MCS)
  • “Creating a Virtual Space to Teach Chinese Pragmatics,” (Taguchi, DC)
  • “Prototype for Collaborative Skills Training,” (Vituccio, ETC, DC)
  • “Improving Writing Instruction,” (Wetzel, DC)

Round 2 (Fall 2014)

  • “Improving Early Literacy by Redesigning E-books,” (Fischer/Koednger, DC, HCII)
  • “Sensor-based Assessment of Student in situ States in Attention and Cognition during Computer-based Geometry Problem-Solving Tasks,” (Kim/Dey/Aleven, SCS)
  • “Facilitating Online Course Engineering with Adaptive Tutors Using Intelligent Pedagogical Agents,” (Matsuda, HCII, VPE)
  • “Teaching Special and General Relativity Using Mobile Devices,” (Rothstein, MCS)
  • “Online Design Education: Taking Design Education and Critiques Online,” (Scupelli, CFA, SCS)
  • “Strategically Segmented Problem Solving,” (Seig, DC, SCS)
  • “Math Primer,” (Sutner, SCS, HCII)
  • “Toward a Blended Classroom for Thermal Sciences,” (Venkat, CIT)
  • “Creating and Assessing the Impact of Interactive Video on Communication Learning,” (Wolfe, DC)

Round 1 (Spring 2014)

  • “Bootstrapping Academic Bootcamp,” (Bigham, SCS)
  • “Bringing Scientific Teaching to Introductory Biology,” (Braun, MCS)
  • “Multiple Choice Question Management System for Bootstrapping Learning Cycles,” (Gatterbauer, Tepper)
  • “Developing Playtest Skills in Hybrid Game Design Environments,” (Hammer, HCII)
  • “Reproducible Research: Computing in Science and Engineering,”(Kitchen, CIT)
  • “Using Clickers to Engage a Group in Collaborative Problem Solving and to Inform Cognitive Tutor Development,” (Lopez, MCS, SCS)
  • “Collaborative Argument Diagramming to Improve Students' Understanding of Argumentation and Ability to Argue,” (McLaren, HCII, DC)
  • “Prose Style Module,” (Neuworth, DC)
  • “Testing Internal/External Material Use in a Virtual Teaching Assistant,” (Nyberg, SCS)
  • “Development of self-paced tutorials in organic chemistry for the life sciences,”(Rule, MCS)
  • “Refining and deploying a tablet app to study and facilitate children's word learning,” (Thiessen)
  • “Modular Course Design, Social Learning, and the Hybrid Classroom,” (Yaron, MCS)