Grants

Awarded and Active

U.S. Department of Education (IES), Award No: R305A090460.  PI: Bruce M. McLaren, “AdaptErrEx: Exploring the Learning Benefits of Erroneous Examples and Their Dynamic Adaptations Within the Context of Middle School Mathematics,” ($1,302,928).   Period: 09/01/09 to 08/31/12.  (See the AdaptErrEx project webpage)

U.S. Department of Education (IES),  PI: Michael Timms (WestEd);   Co-PIs: Bruce M. McLaren, Douglas Weihnacht  “Voyage to Galapagos: Development of a Differentiated Assistance Model in an Inquiry Learning Environment,”  (Subcontract amount: $237,812)   Period: 03/01/11 to 02/31/14. 

European Commission, 7th Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and Demonstration (FP7-ICT-2009-5),  PI: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Baruch Schwarz);  Co-PIs: Saarland University (Bruce M. McLaren), Researchers from five other European institutions, “METAFORA - Learning to Learn Together: A Visual Language for Social Orchestration of Educational Activities,"  (Subcontract amount: 230,000 Euros ~= $300,000)   Period: 07/01/10 to 06/30/13.    (See the Metafora project webpage)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, the German Research Foundation), PIs: Bruce M. McLaren, Niels Pinkwart, “Learning to Argue: Generalized Support Across Domains (LASAD)” (Approximate funding over 4 years: 700,000 Euros ~= $1,000,000).   Period: 11/01/08 to 10/31/12. Unlike U.S. grants, DFG allows equal PIs, as opposed to designating a single PI, so McLaren and Pinkwart are equal PIs.)    (See the LASAD project webpage)

Pending

European Commission, Objective ICT-2011.8.1 -- Technology-enhanced learning,  PI: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Raul Drachman);  Co-PIs: Saarland University (Bruce M. McLaren), Researchers from six other European institutions,   “CoFlow - Promoting Creativity and Collaboration Through the Multi-Modal Representation and Monitoring of Face-to-Face Interactions in the Classroom”  Submitted January 17, 2012;  Proposed Period: 07/01/12 to 06/30/15.   

National Science Foundation (NSF),  PI: Bruce M. McLaren,   Co-PIs:   Vincent Aleven, Robin Shoop   “Learning to Program Robots with Intelligent Tutors and Virtual Worlds: Effects on Learning, Motivation, and Interest in Computer Science and STEM Careers. ”  Submitted January 10, 2012;  Proposed Period:  10/01/12 to 09/30/15. 

National Science Foundation (NSF),  PI: Bruce M. McLaren,   Co-PI:   Jodi Forlizzi   “Enhancing Mathematics Education with Educational Games: Can Erroneous Examples Help? ”  Submitted March 9, 2012;  Proposed Period:  09/01/12 to 08/31/14. 

Awarded and Completed

Ministry of Education and Science of the Ukraine;  National Aerospace University, PI:  Bruce M. McLaren;  “Training of Dr. Andriy Chukhray on Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Studies of Learning,”   ($7,716).  Period: 11/01/11 to 01/01/2012.

U.S. Department of Education (IES), Award No: R305A080093.  PI: Vincent Aleven, Co-PI: Bruce M. McLaren. “Bringing Cognitive Tutors to the Internet: A Website that Helps Middle-School Students Learn Math.” ($1,490,705).   Period: 03/01/08 to 04/30/11.    (See the Mathtutor project webpage)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, the German Research Foundation),  PIs: Erica Melis, Bruce M. McLaren,  “Adaptive Learning with Erroneous Examples (ALoE)”  (~$250,000).  Period: 09/01/08 to 08/31/10.

National Science Foundation (NSF) Award No: 0627513.  PI: Norman Sadeh, Co-PIs:  Bruce M. McLaren, Lorrie Cranor, Ljudevit Bauer, and Jason Hong,  “CT-T: User-Controllable Security and Privacy for Pervasive Computing.”  ($1,968,217).   Period: 09/01/06 to 08/31/10.

Office of Naval Research (ONR) Award No: N000140310220. PI: Kenneth R. Koedinger, Co-PIs: Neil Heffernan, Bruce M. McLaren, and Vincent Aleven. “Demonstrating Affordable Behavioral Modeling with CTAT Through Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction Techniques.” ($887,362).   Period: 12/01/05 to 11/30/08.  (See the CTAT project webpage)

European Commission, Sixth Framework Programme IST – Technology-Enhanced Learning (STREP Contract No. 027728), PI: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Co-PIs: DFKI (Bruce M. McLaren), Researchers from five other European institutions, “ARGUNAUT – An Intelligent Guide to Support Productive Online Dialogue,”  Period: 12/01/05 to 08/31/08.

National Science Foundation (NSF) Award No: SBE0354420. PI: Kenneth R. Koedinger, “Pittsburgh Sciences of Learning Center: Robust Learning with Learning Experiments in Real Classrooms.”   Period: 10/01/04 to 09/30/09.  McLaren was awarded the following learning center projects under this grant.

• “Exploring the Assistance Dilemma and Robust Learning in the Context of the Stoichiometry Tutors,” PI: Bruce M. McLaren, Co-PIs: Dave Yaron, Ken Koedinger ($83,266).   Period: 01/01/08 to 09/30/09.  (See the Stoich studies webpage)
• “CTAT: Start-to-Finish Creation of Computer-Based Tutors Without Programming,” PI: Vincent Aleven, Co-PIs: Bruce M. McLaren, Jonathan Sewall ($598,990).   Period: 10/01/07 to 09/30/09.   (See the CTAT project webpage)
• “Supporting Conceptual Learning in Chemistry through Collaboration Scripts and Adaptive, Online Support,” PI: Bruce M. McLaren, Co-PIs: Nikol Rummel, Andi Harrer, Hans Spada, Niels Pinkwart ($169,122).   Period: 01/01/07 to 06/30/08.
• “Improving Algebra Learning and Collaboration through Collaborative Extensions to the Algebra Cognitive Tutor,” PI: Bruce M. McLaren, Co-PIs: Nikol Rummel, Mindy Kalchman, Hans Spada ($503,500).   Period: 01/01/05 to 12/31/07.
• “CTAT: Authoring Tools and Services for Computer-Based Tutors in LearnLab Experiments and Courses,” PI: Vincent Aleven, Co-PIs: Bruce M. McLaren, Jonathan Sewall, John laPlante ($428,528).    Period: 10/01/06 to 09/30/07.  (See the CTAT project webpage)
• “Studying the Learning Effect of Personalization and Worked Examples in the Solving of Stoichiometry Problems,” PI: Bruce M. McLaren, Co-PIs: Dave Yaron, Ken Koedinger ($44,842).   Period: 08/01/05 to 12/31/05.  (See the Stoich studies webpage)
• “CTAT: Tools to Author Intelligent and Pseudo-Intelligent Tutors: A PSLC Enabling Technology Proposal,” PI: Vincent Aleven, Co-PIs: Bruce M. McLaren, Jonathan Sewall ($785,167).   Period: 10/01/04 to 09/30/06.  (See the CTAT project webpage)