Tapped In (1996-2011)

Tapped In is an online community for education professionals. Through Tapped In, educators can extend their professional growth beyond courses or workshops with the online tools, resources, colleagues, and support they need to implement effective learning activities.

CLTNet (2003-2009)

CLTNet is an online community developed to support the NSF-funded Centers for Learning and Teaching, which aim to enrich and diversify the national infrastructure for instruction in K-12, undergraduate, and graduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Group Scribbles (2006-2010)

Group Scribbles offers implementers, instructors and students a powerful metaphor for thinking about and realizing collaborative learning activities. This metaphor is based on common physical artifacts from the classroom or office: adhesive notes, bulletin boards, whiteboards, stickers, pens, and markers. Our research focuses on employing this metaphor to support emergent collaborative activity across connected, co-located machines to enable high-performance, synchronous, face-to-face collaborative experiences.

NanoSense (2004-2008)

The NanoSense project developed curriculum units to help high school students and teachers understand nanoscale science and integrate these concepts with traditional curricula. The project also convened two national workshops to bring together experts and practitioners in nanoscience and learning science to clarify learning goals for nanoscience, as well as teacher training workshops at SJSU.

ChemSense (1999-2002)

The ChemSense project developed software and curriculum activities to help students understand chemical concepts through the use of tools that help them visualize the world of molecular entities and reactions. Multiple design studies and implementation studies were conducted to refine the software and document changes in students' and teachers' representational and discursive practices, as well as the value of visualizations for enhancing students' understanding of the behavior of particulate entities.

Calipers (2005-2008)

The Calipers project developed and evaluated simulation-based assessments to provide high-quality evidence of complex performances in science tests for both accountability and formative goals. Assessments were developed in the areas of forces and motion (physical science) and populations and ecosystems (life science).