The Open Learning Initiative and ASSISTments
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Supporting Student Learning: The Open Learning Initiative and ASSISTments |
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ELI Web Seminar, November 6, 2007 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour Supporting Student Learning: The Open Learning Initiative and ASSISTmentsSpecial Guests
Candace Thille is the director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a project funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. OLI seeks to make high-quality cognitively informed online education widely accessible and to contribute to our growing understanding of effective online learning environments. Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon, Thille spent 18 years in the private sector at a management consulting and training firm specializing in collaborative change consulting and workplace learning solutions.
Neil Heffernan is an assistant professor of computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. He focuses on the interdisciplinary area of cognitive science and intelligent tutoring systems. Heffernan works with teams of cognitive and computer scientists and psychometricians to create original research results (over 30 published papers) as well as a practical, usable tutoring system. Approximately 3,500 students use his system as part of their normal math classes. Heffernan has received over 10 major research grants to support his work totaling $8 million, including grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education.
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