Project Grant 90FD0214

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the development of an on-demand, research-based innovation to provide help-seeking assistance for learners in virtual and recorded training programs. The $256,000 award made under the NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support Learningclues, LLC from January 2023 through December 2023. The company will build an engine that automatically identifies course disciplines and important learning terms from spoken...

Learnics, LLC was awarded a $945,159 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The award will support the company's "SBIR PHASE II: ACTIONABLE LEARNING ANALYTICS FOR THE CLASSROOM" project. Learnics will develop actionable learning analytics to provide teachers with real-time insights into student comprehension and engagement in the classroom. The NSF Engineering...

The University of California, San Diego will receive $4.4 million under a Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. The funding supports the "LISTEN LAB: LEARNING AND INQUIRING WITH STUDENTS THROUGH ENGAGEMENT NETWORKS" project from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2026. The grant is part of the Education Innovation and Research Program (formerly known as the Investing in Innovation Fund), which provides funding...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program provides $200,000 to support a time-sensitive project that aims to empower teachers to harness the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to create interactive, personalized STEM learning resources. The project team, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will partner with WGBH Educational Foundation to develop a teacher-AI...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $273,188 to Docare LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, aims to develop a large language model and communication optimization tools to improve clinical trial participant engagement and retention. The project will use unsupervised machine learning and operations research techniques to analyze communication data from multiple clinical trials,...

This NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant, awarded to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), focuses on developing an innovative approach called TEEM (Teaching to Empower) to engage students in learning analytics. The $305,953 project, running from July 2024 to June 2029, will integrate data science and data literacy education at the undergraduate level. Key activities include: Design-based research on active-learning analytics activities in data science courses to...

This $400,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop and evaluate the T-PRACTISE system, a framework for fostering engaged asynchronous online and hybrid learning among diverse students, such as adult learners. The project plans to: 1) design, implement, and pilot a proof-of-concept T-PRACTISE system to reduce training and engagement disparities in an asynchronous online environment; 2) adapt and extend...

The National Science Foundation awarded $304,558 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program to the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc. to design and implement an eight-week entrepreneurial training program. The program will provide approximately 100 educational and learning technology research teams with resources and tools to advance their innovations from the lab to the market. Specifically, the grantee will offer curriculum based on...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $999,828 to the Myvillage Project Inc. to develop and deliver a project titled "EXPLORATIONS: ENGAGING BLACK COMMUNITY SUPPORT TO DEVELOP YOUTH'S AWARENESS OF AND TECHNICAL SKILLS FOR EMERGING COMPUTATIONAL CAREERS." The project aims to address barriers that contribute to the underrepresentation of Black...