CCT: Computerized Cognitive Training
CCT verifies the results of a new technology used in the training of working memory, particularly the memory of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This project also aims to study the factors important to optimizing computer training and learning, such as the role of motivation, feedback, and how different types of memory interact. [more]

Folio Thinking
“Folio Thinking” refers to the mindset, learning environments, and tools necessary to support the development of electronic portfolios for the purpose of reflections on learning. This project aims to design the appropriate supporting tools and methods that will enable students to gain a deeper understanding of themselves as learners and their knowledge. Students examine their academic and personal experiences at the university, and the relationships among those experiences. In 2003, the international research group (Stanford, KTH, Uppsala) made great progress in developing a Folio Thinking casebook, developing measures for evaluating the Folio Thinking process, and in designing requirements for E-Folio tools and services. [more]

I-Labs: Internet Assisted Laboratories
The I-Labs project uses the Internet to provide remote access to laboratory facilities for students located anywhere in the world, and then studies how this enhanced access contributes to learning and collaboration. This international team seeks to develop online laboratories that allow groups of students to remotely access laboratory devices and remotely collaborate in performing experiments. The project will implement three I-Labs using the optimized approach: a) one in physics in Stanford, b) one in mechatronic engineering in Hanover, and c) one in turbomachinery in Stockholm. The team will test the effectiveness of the distributed labs at the partner institutions, will develop didactic concepts for widespread use in online laboratories, and will develop scalable and reusable software and hardware components for I-Labs. [more]

iSpaces
The iSpaces international team believes that learning can be accelerated through the use of technology in the classroom, the laboratory, or anywhere that learners gather and work together. A key assumption is that learning is the center of a social activity that computer enhancements can facilitate. iSpaces develops flexible learning environments that make technology transparent in these new computer augmented learning spaces. In the first two years of this project, the team has physically integrated advanced learning technologies into Stanford University’s Wallenberg Hall, Stanford’s School of Engineering, and in courses at KTH in Sweden. [more]

MoRob: Modular Educational Robotic Toolbox
MOROB is designing and developing an advanced and modular educational system for teaching robotics to undergraduate and graduate students. The project creates a variety of curriculum materials that are appropriate for different courses in robotics. To provide a comprehensive set of materials, the project team is bringing together existing toolboxes from the participating institutions (KTH, Stanford, and the University of Hannover). The team will create a model curriculum for using robots in teaching and will provide project-based exercises for different university courses and classes. In time, an evaluation of MoRob’s educational concepts and the state of teaching with robotics will be carried out at all three institutions. [more]

PADLR: Personalized Access to Distributed Learning Repositories
The PADLR researchers aim to create a worldwide exchange network for educational media. Based on several collaborative efforts in Germany, Sweden, and in the U.S., the PADLR team has set out to design a “Learning Web Infrastructure”, making it possible to develop, organize, and search learning materials. The project uses an open source approach, allowing participating institutions to freely contribute and update their material to the common resource pool. [more]

SimTech: Simulation Technologies for Team Learning in Critical Healthcare Management - Feasibility Study (pilot)
This project examines the use of simulation technologies in medical training to reduce the incidence of medical errors. Mistakes in medical care and treatment constitute the fifth largest cause of death - being more common than victims of breast cancer, AIDS, and car accidents. This new 'high tech' patient-machine interaction may play an important preventative role. [more]

VASE (ArchSim): Visualization and Simulation Environments
The goal of the VASE project is to help motivate and provide students a virtually realistic experience in the process of medical diagnosis and in archeological fieldwork via simulated learning systems. The team develops simulation and visualization techniques for education and training purposes. In the medical training component of the project (VASE 1), new cinematographic methods and new parsing (natural language interpretation) techniques are being developed and applied for patient diagnosis simulations. In VASE 2, the archeological component, the project aims to introduce and test virtual learning tools in archaeology education. The project is simulating an excavation of a settlement site typical for Northern Europe. [more]

Web-SP (Simulated Patients)
Researchers at Karolinska Institute, Uppsala University, and Stanford University have developed a complete version of a case simulation system for students. The project is focused on creating the next generation of learning tools for medical training using life-like, simulated patient interactions within a case-based learning environment. Web-SP will be integrated into selected undergraduate and graduate courses in the health sciences at each of the three universities. [more]

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