Launching Alternative Realities and Understanding Implications: mediaX Roundtable

This mediaX Roundtable looks at how the questions we ask and study in the next 2 years will significantly impact new opportunities in content, usability, standards, and business models across application areas in health, business, entertainment, and education.

Supporting Self Regulation for Online Course Students

From The Theme KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could improve productivity and learning by using software tools as a coach to help users be effective in self-directed online settings? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO As an initial proof-of-concept research project, we set out to conduct the first ever large-scale experimental study […]

Contests as a Catalyst for Content Creation

From The Theme FUTURE OF CONTENT WHAT IF What if youth were actively creating and sharing educational web-based content, learning from their own practice and from the work of others? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to study how various contest structures foster the creation of science content by K-12 students. We […]

The Utility of Calming Technologies in Integrative Productivity

From The Theme KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could use technologies for sensing, feedback and interpretation of cognition, affect and physiology to avoid stress, maintain focus and increase calm? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to identify the parameters of systems that could improve mental patterns by influencing cognitive […]

Developing a Diagnostic of Mindset Promoting Practices

From The Theme DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS WHAT IF What if we could understand how student attitudes towards mental effort and challenge affect learning outcomes? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to better understand growth mindsets and learning outcomes by investigating and potentially influencing student attitudes and beliefs around challenge and mental effort. […]