Annual Team Meeting

1. Annual Team Meeting Engaging Partners Jan Plass, CREATE John Burger, Rocky View

2. LEADS Partners • CRIM–Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Montréal • GRITI–Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en tutoriels intelligents • CREATE–Center for Research and Evaluation of Advanced Technologies in Education • GEM–Group of Educational Medialogy • SMARTeacher • EXO U for Education • MedEd–McGill Centre for Medical Education • HSERC–Health Sciences Education and Research Commons • SIM–Arnold and Blema Steinberg Medical Simulation Centre • IMHSE–Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Hong Kong • GRAND–Graphics, Animation and New Media • PSLC–Pittsburgh Science of Learning Centre • Rocky View School Division

3. Center for Research and Evaluation of Advanced Technologies in Education (CREATE) • Mission • Advance the cognitive science and socio-cultural foundations for the use of advanced digital media for learning; • Develop design methods, • Implement models, frameworks, and examples; and • Develop new methods for the studyof digital learning environments for schools, informal learning, and college for science, mathematics, health, and other subjects

4. CREATE & Sharing • Skills, Tools, Equipment, Methodology for LEADS • Design Patterns for Effective Simulations and Games for Learning • Digital Video Ethnography, POV Theory (Ricki Goldman) • Playtesting, Usability Research, Design Research, RCT for Simulations and Games for Learning (Jan Plass) • Learning Environments: Science Simulations, Math Games • Learning Analytics • Eye Tracking, Biometrics

5. CREATE & LEADS • Benefits from Participation in LEADS • Joined development of state of the art research methods and advancement of theory • Intersection of socio-cultural, cognitive, and affective approaches • Exchange of tools, methods, measures, learning environments • Exchange of doctoral students and faculty

6. Group of Educational Medialogy (GEM) • GEM, Aalborg University, Denmark • GEM strives for developing novel usages of modern media technology techniques and applications for educational purposes • GEM benefits from complementary expertise of its members in areas as diverse as adaptive educational technology, affective and culturally-aware computing, formal ontology engineering, serious games, mobile and pervasive computing, user modeling, agent and multi-agent applications, intelligent tutoring systems, and embodied interaction. • Equipment: Motion capture lab, HMD lab, surround sound lab, sensor lab • Tools: Activity recognition for mobile phones, Gesture recognition with mobiles, Wiimote, etc., full body control of robots

7. GEM & LEADS • GEM provides LEADS with expertise in interactive Medialogy for learning, especially in the context of the development of serious games applications • Involved in Deteriorating Patient project with Jeffrey Wiseman • Benefits: • strengthen research collaboration with international partners • create new ties with international partners • gather additional funding for projects to complement and support LEADS objectives

8. Prodigy by SMARTeacher • Education software company • Prodigy: The first game that can automatically adapt based on a child’s emotions • Support: • Licenses • GSR Sensors • Data

9. SMARTeacherKey Project Goals • Validate biosensor • Isolating affective states to key situations • Correlating affective states to game states • Identifying areas for improvement

10. EXO U for Educators • Using EXOdeskand EXO UI in the classroom • EXOUtechnology has the potential to transform teacher training and student learning

11. EXO UTechnology Features • EXO U provides auniversal technology-agnosticframework regardless of the devicesor computing platforms and access to high-level IT specialists • Applications frameworkindependent of hardware across-OS • Flawless user experience • Peer-to-peer / contextualcomputing • Increase teacher productivity

12. EXO U & LEADS • Benefits of thisresearchproject: • Enabling new models of working, collaborating and teaching • Provide a universal application framework that redefines the students and teachers experience within educational institutions • Transfer of knowledge and technical training to researchers

13. McGill Centre forMedical Education (MedEd) • Strives to promote excellence and scholarship in teaching and learning across the continuum of health sciences education • Conducts research to inform practice in a variety of settings with students in medicine, nursing, physical and occupational therapy, and communication sciences • Renewed interest in technology-assisted learning and assessment

14. MedEd & LEADS • MedEd’srole is to plan research that will lead to innovative medical curricula, including the use of TREs in the health sciences • Engaged in: • Bioworld project with Jeffrey Wiseman, Susanne Lajoie, Eunice Jang & Rafael Calvo • Empathy projects with Jeffrey Wiseman, Susanne Lajoie, Cindy Hmelo-Silver & Ricki Goldman • MedEd to provide research internship opportunities to promote synergy between team members and students so that research can be conducted in a variety of classroom and clinical settings • MedEd will be able to directly apply the outcomes of LEADs research by influencing curriculum change in the McGill medical school, and other Canadian medical schools

15. Health Sciences Education and Research Commons (HSERC) • HSERC is an interdisciplinary simulation centre • Focused on: • developing, implementing and evaluating health science education in single-discipline and team-based environments, and; • the effective use of educational technologies, such as simulation learning environments or virtual worlds for over 6,000 health science students

16. HSERC & LEADS • HSERC currently engaged in educational research related to the use of technology, however just in the early stages of development as a centre for health sciences educational research ($3 million in grant funding to date) • LEADS will serve as a catalyst for new and innovative research initiatives and collaborations • Outcomes of this research will lead to innovations in assessment and measurement within health sciences pre-licensure and post-graduate education • HSERC to provide access to research space for team members to conduct studies and office space • HSERC will assist with access to the large number of diverse health science learners to support the research.

17. Arnold and Blema Steinberg Medical Simulation Centre (SIM Centre) • SIM Centre acts as a true laboratory where educational experiments may be carried out in a safe environment to study the role of emotion on learning, retention, and outcome • Use of medical simulation allows the appropriate contextual framework of patient outcome as the emotional driver in all of these simulations • Benefits: • Better clinical performance, better decision-making, and regulation of emotion in stressful situations • SIM Centre provides LEADS with infrastructure, space, simulation equipment, and simulation expertise to the researchers, including: • Clinical simulation area fully-equipped with the latest in mannequin technology • Appropriate medical equipment for realism and special effects • Full audio- and video-recording with archiving and retrieval • Debriefing rooms

18. SIM Centre & LEADS • SIM Centre involved in: • Deteriorating Patient project with Jeffrey Wiseman • Emotional states and Technical Skills Performance among Surgical Residents project with Kevin Lachapelle • Role of Emotions & Metacognition in Medical Decision-Making within a Simulation Environment, with Roger Azevedo and Internal Medicine Residents

19. Institute of Medical and Health Sciences (IMHSE) Hong Kong • IMHSE provides: • an inter-cultural context • experienced PBL facilitators and medical educators • a site for international collaboration between medical students, instructors and tutors and researchers on the LEADs team conducting international learning studies using Adobe Connect

20. IMHSE & LEADS • IMHSE & LEADS to explore cultural differences in medical contexts, with respect to communication and regulation of emotion when communicating bad news to patients • IMHSE engaged in Empathy project with Susanne Lajoie, Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Jeffrey Wiseman & Ricki Goldman • Benefits: • HKUIMHSE will benefit by developing and testing innovative TREs to support teaching and learning • Results can lead to curriculum reform in medical education in Hong Kong

21. Graphics, Animation and New Media (GRAND) • GRAND is a Network Centre of Excellence (NCE) that supports 34 research projects that address digital media in a variety of settings including entertainment, healthcare, education, environmental sustainability, and public policy. • GRAND provides capacity building to the gaming and simulation groups and to the methodology and assessment groups in LEADs

22. GRAND & LEADS • GRAND will provide support for the knowledge mobilization and training activities of the research team, including workshops to strengthen the dissemination, networking, and partnership components of the project • Researchers from GRAND’s network on Games and Interactive Simulation and Enabling Technologies and Methodologies Themes will work with LEADs theme 2 and 3 • Planning underway for joint LEADS-GRAND workshop to be held later in 2013

23. Pittsburgh Science ofLearning Centre (PSLC) • PSLC is a National Science Foundation-sponsored research centre run jointly by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and University of Pittsburgh • PSLC mission is to leverage cognitive theory and cognitive modelling to identify instructional conditions that cause robust student learning • PSLC conducts cognitive theory-driven experimentation, data collection and data mining

24. PSLC & LEADS • PSLC will share design knowledge about computational modeling tools, authoring tools for online courses, and data analysis tools that facilitate semi- automated coding of verbal data • PSLC will waive registration fees for up to 5 qualified LEADS students per year to attend annual LearnLab summer school • http://www.learnlab.org/opportunities/summer/ • PSLC provides tutorials & workshops at annual conferences

25. Rocky View School Division • Data as a driver of educational research – post-AISI context • Strategy 4.2.2 - Develop a system-wide, balanced, and integrated student information system that supports [timely] diagnostics of individual student achievement, as well as aggregated data at the classroom, school, and jurisdictional levels. • Content analysis of the August 2012 Student Information System (SIS) Research Conference proceedings indicate four key themes • Context • Design and Function • Capacity Building • Implementation Strategies

26. Rocky View & LEADSKey Questions • What quantitative research is most efficacious in driving school improvement? • What qualitative research (learning styles, preferences, interests, etc.) should inform Student Profiles? • What knowledge mobilization is needed for enhanced evidence-based decision making? • What information technologies will most demonstratively support data-informed decision-making in classrooms, schools and districts?

27. Rocky View Schools – Student Information System Design Features Class School Jurisdiction CADAD Supports real time , class-based reporting for students and parents with both formative and summative data • The SIS generates student/cohort profiles on: • Achievement – PATs; Diploma Exams, Classroom summative marks, CAT 4 • Ability - Insight, WISC-R (selective) • Aptitudes – Differential Aptitude Test • Attitudes – Student Orientation to School Questionnaire SIS data is applied to system improvement, research and program evaluation