Authors: Umesh Timalsina, Eduardo Davalos Key Ideas As research engineers, we’re taking a moment to reflect on our current development of a platform and infrastructure for collecting and analyzing multimodal data for education. The eventual goal of our project is to come up with a unified software architecture to collect and process data from educational … Read more
Author: Anthony Baker Key Ideas At this year’s League of Innovative Schools meeting in Pittsburgh, Digital Promise invited educators and district leaders into an exciting and emerging space in education: the intersection of GenAI, storytelling, and instructional practice. The session wasn’t just about showcasing a new technology — it was about reimagining how we engage … Read more
Authors: Kimberly Farnsworth & Kelli Paul Key Ideas AI-Enhanced Immersive Learning Experiences Over the past four years, our team has developed EcoJourneys, a narrative-centered, AI-enhanced science game that engages middle school students in solving real-world environmental problems through immersive, story-driven gameplay. Set on a fictional island in the Philippines, students take on the role of … Read more
Authors: Megan Humburg & Joshua Danish Key Ideas Our team has been developing AI-supported conversational agents that help students learn to write persuasive arguments in science, drawing on observations and evidence that they learn in our game-based environments. These agents need to assess students’ writing, evaluate how convincing and detailed the argument is, and offer … Read more
Author: Gabrielle Lue and Emma Braaten In its fourth year, the EngageAI Institute continues its focus on creating AI-driven narrative-centered learning environments. We envision a future of learning where students are actively engaged in the classroom and all participants, including educators, can find support through emerging technologies and collaboration. In 2025, our outreach will expand … Read more
This blog post was originally published via the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) on November 25, 2024. The original blog can be accessed here. Authors: Jeremy Roschelle, Executive Director of Learning Sciences Research, Digital Promise; Gautam Biswas, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University; Cindy … Read more
Authors: Jeremy Roschelle, Gabrielle Lue and Gautam Biswas On July 17, 2024, Professor Gautam Biswas presented the “Test of Time” keynote at the Educational Data Mining conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Prof. Biswas, a co-PI of the NSF EngageAI Institute, was honored for his 2011 paper “Identifying Learning Behaviors by Contextualizing Differential Sequence Mining with Action … Read more
By Sarah K. Burriss and EngageAI Staff Key Ideas In late 2022, the White House released the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. This document is an important first step in responding to the increasing presence and impact of AI systems in our daily lives, and we wanted to share and discuss it with … Read more
By Megan Humburg1, Ph.D., and Dalila Dragnić-Cindrić2, Ph.D. 1Indiana University; 2 Digital Promise Key ideas: Our teams at the EngageAI Institute are working to build a narrative-centered, AI-driven educational game where students can investigate scientific problems by exploring a game world, chatting with different characters, and gathering evidence to solve a mysterious illness outbreak. As … Read more