Decision Products and Long Term Integrity
From The Theme PUBLISH ON DEMAND WHAT IF What if we could use a software infrastructure to develop a culture that makes high-quality decision products a priority – as if facts, logic, future consequences, and preserving the integrity of those decisions are factors that matter? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO Our objectives were to […]
Smarter Scholarly Texts
From The Theme PUBLISH ON DEMAND WHAT IF What if we could streamline academic article production for both authors and publishers through the use of extensible markup language in an assisted automated system? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO Our goal was to develop a scholarly article parsing toolchain that would include a parsing engine, […]
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 […]
A New Generation of Hybrid Tangible Interfaces for Learning
From The Theme FUTURE OF CONTENT WHAT IF What if we could combine online experimentation with wetlab experiences for science and engineering education? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop and test a scalable and cost-effective platform that combined the best features of online open education with the established benefits of […]
The Stanford Clinical Anatomy SCAnS Library
From The Theme FUTURE OF CONTENT WHAT IF What if learning about human anatomy and biology in today’s digital world was enriched by the ability to view and interact with 3D volumetric CT scans? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We made Stanford 3D high resolution anatomical CT scans available to middle and high school […]
Physical Media as Active Social Learning Agents
From The Theme FUTURE OF CONTENT WHAT IF What if the object being created takes the role of an active social agent in the creative experience and can increase engagement for learning? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop the theory and principles necessary to design new physical media that can […]
Lacuna Stories
From The Theme DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS WHAT IF What if we could provide an online platform for social reading, writing and annotation? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to expand and improve data collection and analysis for Lacuna Stories, a project of Stanford’s Poetic Media Lab. Lacuna Stories is an open-source, online […]
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. […]
The Labor Market Effects of Digital Learning: Evidence from a Field Experiment
From The Theme DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS WHAT IF What if we could provide evidence of the current effects of digital learning on labor market outcomes? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We conducted a “resume audit” field experiment to examine how MOOC credentials influence the employability of job applicants, beginning with a focus on software […]