10 April 2025
» The Wonder Lab will be well represented at the upcoming International Society for the Learning Sciences annual meeting.
About
The Wonder Lab strives to support human wonderment
in authentic contexts of learning.
As an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, we design technology-enhanced learning environments, develop learning analytics applications, and conduct empirical research in various educational settings.
News
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02 April 2025
Our talented lab member, Amanda Tran, was part of a finalist team in the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative’s Hack-AI-Thon. Their project, AgoraAI, incorporates AI to support social annotation and classroom discussions.
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16 December 2024
Basel Hussein, PhD candidate working on the Playful Problem Solving project, successfully defended his dissertation, titled Now What? An Empirical Description of Goal-Setting, Misalignment, and Learning Along the Way in a Digital Puzzle-Based Video Game. Congratulations, Dr. Hussein!
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15 October 2024
Lab director Bodong Chen presented an invited lecture titled Epistemic Agency and Infrastructure in the GenAI Era at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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30 September 2024
The Knowledge Building Innovation Network project kicked-off its second year! The first workshop was attended by 150 educators and researchers.
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People
Graduate Researchers
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Jiayu Cheng
PhD student
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Yuwei Liang
PhD student
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Vivian Leung
MSEd
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Amanda Tran
MSEd student
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Chen Wang
Instructional Technologist
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Kexin Chen
MSEd student
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Ruby Ren
MSEd student
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Yue Zhao
MSEd student
Developers
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Benji Encalada Mora
Lead Software Engineer
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Wenxi Chen
Developer
Visiting Scholars
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Yu Gao
PhD student from CCNU
Faculty
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Bodong Chen
Associate Professor
Former Members
- Basel Hussein PhD --> postdoc at NYU
- Xinran Zhu PhD --> assistant prof at UIUC
- Hong Shui PhD; faculty at Sichuan Normal University
- Zixi Chen Postdoc --> assistant professor at NYU Shanghai
- Mengchen Su Postdoc --> Research Scientist at UMN
- Xiping Jiang MSEd --> PhD student at UT-Austin
- Keerthanya Rajesh MSEd --> Research Analyst at Research for Action
- Pingting Chen MSEd
- Yu-Hui Chang PhD --> Assistant Professor at National Sun Yat-sen University
- Rukmini Manasa PhD --> Research Associate at UIC
- Fan Ouyang PhD --> faculty at Zhejiang University
- Emily Yan MSEd student
- Wenjing Chen MEd
- William Batu M.S. in CS
- Huanqing Wu Visiting scholar from Qufu Normal University
- Wanying Zhou Undergrad in Psychology --> Master's student at Penn
- Tianhui Huang Visiting scholar --> faculty at Yunnan University
- Yizhou Fan Visiting scholar --> faculty at Peking University
- Mustafa Serkan Günbatar Visiting scholar, Associate Professor at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University
- Lee, Vwen Yen Alwyn Visiting Scholar, NIE Singapore
- Simone Luchini Visiting Student, PSU
Funding
Our work is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Schmidt Futures, Carina Initiatives, and other funding agencies.
