Ryan Baker, associate professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education and the director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics, is a subcontractor for the $430,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, to Florida State University. The purpose of this project, Exploring Adaptive Cognitive and Affective Learning Support for Next Generation STEM Learning Games is to research how to design educational games that better support frustrated students in regulating their emotions in order to learn effectively. 

Dr. Baker was also awarded a $470,000 grant from American Institute for Research (Institute of Education Sciences) for the project Identifying Malleable Factors in Blended Learning Environments Using Automated Detectors of Engagement. The project aims to use data mining and machine learning methods to explore the relationship between effective and behavioral engagement with measures of student learning within an online adaptive mathematics learning system.