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Ryan Baker: Two NSF Grants

caption: Ryan BakerRyan Baker, associate professor at Penn GSE and director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics, and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University, were awarded approximately $447,000 by the National Science Foundation to develop a new game that teaches aquatic ecosystems and scientific inquiry skills. The game will observe student gameplay and learn how to better sequence content and then use this information to improve its own educational effectiveness.

Dr. Baker and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Worcester Polytechnic Institute received an award from the National Science Foundation for $219,000 to study how to develop artificially intelligent learning systems that ask teachers for advice on how to interact with students. Rather than asking the teacher for broad rules which can be hard to articulate, the system will occasionally ask the teacher what to do in specific real situations and learn the teacher’s preferences.

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