A new paper, titled A framework for infrastructuring sustainable innovations in education has been published online in Journal of the Learning Sciences.
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28 March 2024
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25 March 2024
The 2nd GenAI-KB Design Jam is launched! This virtual event aims to create innovative solutions to the challenges faced in KB classrooms. It will continue into June 2024 and is co-facilitated by Lydia Cao (University of Toronto), Xinran Zhu (UPenn), and Bodong Chen (UPenn).
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06 November 2023
A new paper, titled Integrating generative AI in knowledge building has been accepted for publication in Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence.
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15 October 2023
A poster, titled The Synthesis Lab: Empowering Collaborative Learning in Higher Education through Knowledge Synthesis was presented at the 2023 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) in Minneapolis.
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06 October 2023
A new paper, titled Beyond reading together: Facilitating knowledge construction through participation roles and social annotation in college classrooms has been accepted for publication in The Internet and Higher Education.
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10 June 2023
A new paper, titled Understanding Idea Creation in Collaborative Discourse Through Networks: The Joint Attention–Interaction–Creation (AIC) Framework was presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) in Montreal.
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29 September 2022
Xinran Zhu, Ph.D. candidate, has received a research grant from Social Science Research Council (supported by The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science), as a co-PI. The awarded project aims to examine factors that drive inter-institutional collaboration in the field of computational social science towards knowledge advancement, by constructing collaboration networks and investigating longitudinal network evolution via network modeling.
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15 September 2022
Our new Penn GSE Wonder Lab website is launched today!
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01 December 2021
A study by Learning Technologies PhD students Xinran Zhu and Hong Shui won the Best Student Paper Award at the 29th International Conference on Computers in Education. The work, “Designing Support for Productive Social Interaction and Knowledge Co-construction in Collaborative Annotation,” was also nominated for the Best Research Paper Award category. The study, part of the Collaborative Annotation in College Classrooms Project, has practical implications for online teaching and collaborative learning. Read more.
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18 December 2020
PhD student Xinran Zhu and Professor Bodong Chen featured in the Liquid Margin webinar series hosted by Hypothes.is to share social annotation practice and research. Watch the webinar recording and check out the project page.
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28 October 2019» Alumni of the Group Win Dissertation Awards
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24 May 2019» Personal Learning Compass (Pleco)
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08 March 2019
Bodong Chen presented a full paper, titled “Towards Value-Sensitve Learning Analytics Design” at the 2019 Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference in Tempe, AZ. Read more…
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05 November 2018
Bodong Chen received a Teaching Innovation grant from TeachingSupport @UMN. This grant, titled “Enriching an Online Course with Interactive Web Content and Learning Analytics,” will seek to integrate H5P, xAPI, and analytics in open courses he has been building.
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01 November 2018
Bodong Chen presented on a panel titled “Annotation as Infrastructure for Next Generation Digital Learning Environments” (slides), at the 2018 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Denver, CO.
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15 August 2018
Yu-Hui Chang and David Groos attended the 2018 Knowledge Building Summer Institute in Toronto, Canada and presented their work on knowledge building in teacher education and high science science. Bodong Chen attended virtually to facilitate a knowledge building analytics symposium.
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20 June 2018
Bodong Chen led a tutorial on Social Media Mining at the 2018 Learning Analytics Summer Institute, co-hosted by NYU and Colombia Univresity.
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15 June 2018
Bodong Chen attended the I Annotate conference in San Francisco and presented work related to the IdeaMagnets project.
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06 October 2017
Bodong attended the 7th mEducation Alliance Symposium in Washington DC and presented his work on learning analytics and MOOCs.
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28 April 2017
Yu-Hui Chang presented CanvasNet at the AERA 2017 Annual Meeting in Saint Antonio.
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20 March 2017
Chen presented a poster at the 7th Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) conference, about initial findings from the DL4D MOOC project. A 2-page description can be found in the conference proceedings.