Digital learning publications
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YouTube’s ABCs and 123s: Describing the quality of early literacy and math videos on YouTube
This paper describes the quality of educational videos for young children on YouTube.
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Sound Town Evaluation Report
Digital learning programs are a promising tool to support teachers in providing students with strong early literacy instruction, but more research is needed to understand their effectiveness. This report describes…
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Predict Young Learner Online Learning Engagement
This study examines an artificial intelligence (AI)- powered automated system that uses voice and facial recognition to track both teacher and learner speech, facial expressions, and interactions in real-time in…
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Encouraging Impacts of an Open Education Resource Degree Initiative on College Students’ Progress to Degree
Open Education Resources (OER) are an alternative to commercial textbooks that have the potential to increase college affordability, access, and instructional quality.
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An Evaluation of a First-of-its-kind Hybrid Law Degree Program
There are few published studies investigating the effectiveness of hybrid formats at the program level in graduate legal education. A hybrid Juris Doctorate (J.D.) program launched by a Midwestern institution…
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Automated Student Group Collaboration Assessment and Recommendation System Using Individual Role and Behavioral Cue
We propose simple CNN deep-learning models that take in spatio-temporal representations of individual student roles and behavior annotations as input for group collaboration assessment.
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The Apple and ConnectED Initiative: Three Case Stories
The Apple and ConnectED Initiative offered a unique opportunity to study technology adoption across a wide range of traditionally under-resourced communities
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The Efficacy of Digital Media Resources in Improving Children’s Ability to Use Informational Text: An Evaluation of Molly of Denali from PBS KIDS
Two nine-week trials with a national sample of 263 first-graders examined whether free educational videos and digital games supported children’s ability to use informational text to answer real-world questions.
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Strategies for Success in Community Partnerships: Case Studies of Community Collaboratives for Early Learning and Media
As part of the Ready To Learn Initiative, the CPB and the PBS devised a new model of community partnerships called Community Collaboratives for Early Learning and Media.
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Digital media can help preschoolers learn real-world science skills
Many studies report that children can learn a range of skills from well-designed educational media. Yet we know relatively little about whether and how well children are able to apply…
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Early science and engineering: The impact of The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! on Learning
This study explores whether providing families with access to PBS KIDS The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! ™ activities can help children learn physical science and…
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Designing Smartphone Microlessons to Improve the Cybersecurity Workforce
This is a poster presented at the 4th annual Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace principal investigators’ meeting.