Project Grant 1853212

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to design the blueprint and initial prototype for a gamified, personalized virtual experience to provide essential scientific research skills training to undergraduate students at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. The $500,000 project, with a performance period from September 2024 to August 2027, seeks to increase access to guided research opportunities for underrepresented Hispanic...

This $850,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in developing mixed reality participatory simulations to support complex systems learning. Over three years, MIT will design two mixed reality simulations using augmented and virtual reality headsets that allow classroom groups of students to collaboratively engage with system of systems models. Each student group will take on roles like...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF 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 automation to map competencies, an...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $300,809 to Saint Louis University to explore the integration of reconfigurable sensorimotor interfaces into educational STEM simulations for digital learning platforms. The goal is to develop low-cost, reconfigurable "teletangible" haptic devices that can be used to embody STEM concepts and support the learning of both sighted students and those with blindness or low...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) provides $200,000 to Carnegie Mellon University to develop adaptable, game-based interactive learning environments for STEM education. The primary goals of the project are to: Automate the customization and adaptation of 3D simulated game-based learning environments to improve learner engagement. Provide a deeper understanding of the design, development, and deployment of these learning environments,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $170,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Cast Inc., a nonprofit educational technology research organization, to develop an enterprise-level platform that integrates immersive extended reality (XR) technologies with traditional learning management systems. The 3-year project, titled "IMMERSIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES: EXPANDING ACCESS THROUGH OPEN-SOURCE INNOVATION," aims to enhance technician education by...

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 $350,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to prepare science teachers to engage multilingual learners in scientific argumentation through mixed-reality simulations. The key goals are to identify essential elements in teacher-student interactions that help elicit student thinking to improve scientific argumentation among secondary multilingual learners, and to explore the preliminary effects, acceptability, and...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $999,942 in funding to Learn Collaborate Inc., a minority-owned small business, to develop an AI-powered collaborative project-based learning (CPBL) software platform. The platform is designed to address the workforce skills gap by enabling project-based learning activities that seamlessly integrate real-world projects with academic...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $295,000 to Debater Hub LLC to develop a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform for debate-centered instruction. The project aims to revolutionize education by creating an AI-enhanced debate-centered learning platform that cultivates 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, communication,...