Using Howard Rheingold's course management system to study patterns of student use of online CMS, understanding obstacles for use and adoption, identify types of learners, measure tool effectiveness, develop learning portfolios, improve user to user interaction with hybrid models for learning environments.
Social Enterprise project “groundtruth” provides rugged geospatial data collection and management services for developing regions; potential customers include NGOs as well as other organizations who do location-based planning, evaluation, or monitoring.
This tool seeks to address the problem that sometimes relevant information is hidden, being categorized under a non-canonical or non-authoritative name or in unfamiliar terms. By using Freebase's aliases, we can improve precision and recall for social media search.
Proposes research to understand more clearly the relationship between the adoption of ICT systems in education and teacher networks.
Proposes online tool to support students in the writing process outside of the classroom. Connects students to classmates as well as to a suite of customizable tools to help students master grade-level appropriate writing for specifc genres.
A classroom feedback system in order to improve instructor effectiveness by providing real-time feedback of student perception of the pace of a lesson.