Digital Estate and Identity in the New Landscape of Work
From The Theme MEMORY, ESTATE AND LEGACIES IN A DIGITAL WORLD WHAT IF What if we could track and understand the variety of factors influencing the ways that digital media might enable and constrain identity during a person’s entire work life? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO Our goal is to develop the first comprehensive […]
Kindred Britain 2.0 – Can We Walk the Past’s Streets
From The Theme MEMORY, ESTATE AND LEGACIES IN A DIGITAL WORLD WHAT IF What if we could create a multidimensional, dynamic and interactive visual infographic, combining data on people, time and space to track the evolution of concepts, relationships and ideas? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO Our goal is to leverage a curated and […]
Voyage of Discovery: Capturing and Considering Multimedia Journey Narratives
From The Theme MEMORY, ESTATE AND LEGACIES IN A DIGITAL WORLD WHAT IF What if we could explore interactive narrative creation from the point of view of both the storyteller and the audience? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to investigate the capture, creation and consumption of narrative through multiple access points. […]
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 […]
Language, Race & Cognition Using Digital Text
From The Theme DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS WHAT IF What if we could investigate how different racial representations impact student learning experiences via digital media? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to explore how race and culture impact students’ learning and sense of belonging in the classroom. Our research investigated how altering racial […]
Developing Written and Game-based Assessment Tools to Measure the Effectiveness of Math Video Games
From The Theme DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS WHAT IF What if we could provide hard evidence of the effectiveness of game based learning? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to conduct research on learning outcomes from math video games, and to evaluate and improve assessment tools. Researchers explored differences in the mathematical proficiency […]
Real-Time Social Communications Environments for Online Class Engagement and Peer to Peer Learning
From The Theme DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS WHAT IF What if we could understand how different tools and methods of online course interaction can influence student outcomes? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to investigate how different types of digital communication tools affect student/student and student/instructor interactions online. Researchers considered the impact of […]