Research Projects

Penn Wonder Lab members hold various research interests. We design innovative digital learning environments, develop analytic applications, and conduct collaborative research in various learning contexts.

Active Projects

DataX: Justice-Oriented Data Science Ed

DataX: Justice-Oriented Data Science Ed

Integrating justice-oriented data science in secondary science and social studies

Infrastructures and Innovation Networks for Knowledge Building

Infrastructures and Innovation Networks for Knowledge Building

Long-standing design-based research project to advance infrustructures for knowledge building

Collaborative Annotation in Classrooms

Collaborative Annotation in Classrooms

Support social and collaborative annotation in college classrooms, through design partnerships

Playful Problem Solving

Playful Problem Solving

Investigating and scaffolding problem solving in a digital game

Teacher-Facing Learning Analytics Dashboard for Social Annotation

Supports teacher inquiry into the learning process of students and helps them reflect on and adjust their learning design in social annotation activity.

Completed Projects

Orchestrating Idea Flows in Knowledge Communities

Orchestrating Idea Flows in Knowledge Communities

Examine how orchestration graphs could facilitate productive collaboration in online classes

IdeaMagnets

IdeaMagnets

CRII: Cyberlearning: Connecting Web Annotations and Progressive Online Discourse in Science Classrooms.

Networked Learning Environments and Analytics

Networked Learning Environments and Analytics

Enriching an Online Course with Interactive Web Content and Learning Analytics

A project funded by TeachingSupport @UMN

MOOCs for Teacher Professional Learning

MOOCs as an alternative for teacher professional development: Examining persistent teacher-learners in one Chinese MOOC. Funded by the DL4D Research Network.

Personal Learning Compass

The purpose of this project is to support personal learning on the open web.

Discovery in Edu Information Systems

Discovery in Edu Information Systems

Research discovery with “big data” in large-scale student information and learning management systems

Social Media and Networked Scholarship

How academics use social media in scholarly settings?

WordWhispers

A writing analytics tool for Knowledge Forum. Funded by the Center for Writing at the University of Minnesota.