This internship program in technology-supported education will draw on broad
areas such as mobile learning, educational games, technology-assisted language
learning, computer-assisted collaborative learning, intelligent tutors, machine
learning, educational data mining, human-computer interaction, as well as speech
and language technologies. The goal is to create an international bridge between
institutions of higher learning in India and Carnegie Mellon University, which
is at the forefront of research both in technology and in the learning sciences
in the U.S., and even worldwide.
This internship program will provide valuable research training opportunities
for Indian undergraduates through a partnership between one of India's premier
technical universities and one of the top ranking schools of computer science in
the world, with the goal of expanding the pool of talented young researchers in
India. A secondary goal is to provide a mechanism through which ongoing research
partnerships can form and flourish between researchers at institutes for higher
learning in India and researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, such as taking the
form of co-advised B-Tech projects. And finally, the internship program directly
benefits the infrastructure for education in India as a biproduct of the
research projects the students will engage in. As part of the internship program,
participants
will focus on topics relevant to education in India, and in the developing world
more generally.
The internship program will be composed of two stages. In the first stage,
students will apply to participate in a two-week winter school from December 10-22,
2009 in Hyderabad. During these two weeks, students will attend lectures that
will cover research and research methodologies, tools and techniques,
insights about theory and practice, and a broad overview of the field of
technology-supported education. Students will participate in team projects,
which will be presented in demo sessions at the end of the winter school.
Students who successfully complete the winter school will be invited to apply
for research internships at Carnegie Mellon University. Successful applicants for stage
two will be matched with internship advisors for a summer internship at Carnegie
Mellon University's main campus in Pittsburgh, USA, for summer 2010. Some
financial support for the summer internship may be available.
