Integrating a Community of Evolving Learners.
Jonah Benton, Elizabeth I Sklar · 2011
Columbia's Technology Integration Partnership (TIP) is developing a web-based software infrastructure to support interactive, real-time collaborative educational activities for a community of human learners and intelligent software agents. We support both cooperative and competitive activities, and have done initial deployment and testing of the environment in New York City public schools. Current and future work focuses on integration of these activities into existing TIP classroom activities in these schools; enhancing and adapting the software infrastructure for use by students, educators and developers outside the TIP project; and gathering data and incorporating additional pedagogical methods to better enable, measure and support human and agent learning over time.