Project Grant 1632408

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $304,200 to develop a novel adaptive learning platform. The platform leverages mixed-reality, competency-based learning to address workforce displacement due to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. Key innovations include a skills engine using generative AI and robotic process automation (RPA) to identify and map...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $106,000 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to conduct research on designing smart environments to enhance collective learning and creativity. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing large-scale online experiments and computational models to investigate how technological...

This Project Grant award for $269,920 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support the development of community-based tools to enhance students' self-regulated learning of parallel programming. The project will focus on engaging students in metacognitive processes to improve their learning of parallel programming concepts. Key activities include developing a...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program ($299,499) supports the development of scalable, experiential learning models and tools for undergraduate STEM education from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2026. The University of California Santa Cruz will establish a new pedagogical approach organizing project-based courses around "micro-roles" that scaffold apprenticeship-style learning pathways. This design-based research aims to develop organizational...

Ecosystemone LLC was awarded a $255,550 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant will support development of an instructor-friendly intelligent virtual reality platform for secondary and post-secondary distance learning and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education from August 15, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The platform aims to advance science and engineering research and...

This $149,992 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of adaptable, game-based, interactive learning environments for STEM education. The primary goals are to: 1) Automate the customization and adaptation of 3D simulated game-based learning environments to improve engagement; 2) Assess the effectiveness of these learning environments for diverse learner groups in online and in-person...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) project grant award of $365,905 to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) aims to enhance the CASELET tool, a scalable case-based learning platform, to improve data science problem-solving competency among graduate students. The project will augment CASELET with new features, leveraging large language models, machine learning, and data analytics to scale up the...

This collaborative research project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), delivers comparative instructional development and evaluation services designed to improve preservice STEM teacher preparation. The award of $575,142, initiated October 1, 2025, and concluding September 30, 2029, supports the development and assessment of two instructional modalities: Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence (VR...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $305,000 STTR Phase I Project Grant to Nd-Diagenomix, Inc. (doing business as Adapta Education, Inc.) to develop a web-based formative assessment system for high school math education. The project aims to address critical problems in math education, including student learning deficiencies and teacher burnout, by creating a highly efficient and personalized assessment platform that can be easily customized by teachers. The system will leverage...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $198,688 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Notre Dame. The "Collaborative Research: HNDS-R: Advancing Diverse Viable Effective Networked Teams (ADVENT)" project aims to create an open-source computational network model to optimize team formation by integrating functional individual differences and member affinity. The researchers will train and test this model...