LearnLab 2015 - 11th Annual LearnLab Summer School

We invite applications for participation in an intensive 1-week summer school on technology-enhanced learning experiments and building intelligent tutoring systems. The summer school will provide a conceptual background and considerable hands-on experience in developing, running and analyzing technology-enhanced learning experiments.
Tracks
The summer school is organized into three parallel tracks: Intelligent Tutor Systems development (ITS), Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), and Educational Data Mining (EDM). The tracks will overlap somewhat but will differ significantly with respect to the hands-on activities, which make up about half the summer school. The goal for each track is described below.
ITS track: in the intelligent tutor system development track, your goal will be to implement a prototype computer-based tutor, using authoring tools developed by LearnLab reseachers, such as CTAT (the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools) which supports the creation of intelligent tutoring systems, or TuTalk, which is used to develop tutorial dialogue systems that interact with students in natural language.
EDM track: if you are in the educational data mining track, your goal will be to analyze an educational data set using data mining tools and methods. The data set could be one of the data sets currently in LearnLab's Data Shop or you could bring your own.
CSCL Track: if you are in the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning track, your goal will be to implement automatic support for collaborative learning that could be integrated with an existing environment, such as the Virtual Math Teams on-line learning environment.
The summer schools involves intensive mentoring by LearnLab researchers, which starts by e-mail before the summer school (in order to select a subject domain and task for the project, where appropriate) and continues during the summer school with a good amount of one-on-one time during the hands-on sessions. The mentors are assigned based on your interests as stated in the application. (All participants will have the opportunity to interact with all course instructors, but will interact more frequently with their designated mentor.)