Grants
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Project LENS: Leveraging Expertise in Neurotechnologies to Study Individual Differences in Multimedia Learning
Role: Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation. Amount: $765,000. Description: Project LENS focuses on establishing an interdisciplinary collaborative network of scholars that use Electroencephalography, eye tracking, and functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy to understand multimedia learning within a diverse population of students that exhibit attentional and cognitive differences.
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iDigFossils: Engaging K-12 Students in Integrated STEM via 3D Digitization, Printing and Exploration of Fossils
Role: Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation. Amount: $1,194,000. Description: The goal of this project is to expand and extend our understanding of integrated STEM learning by designing and testing a model for student engagement using 3D scanning and printing, and computational modeling within a highly relevant but unexplored educational pathway to K-12 STEM – paleontology.
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A Simulation-Based Application for Teaching Human Physiology through Guided Discovery, Pure Discovery, and Authentic Research
Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation. Amount: $247,129. Description: The goal of this project is to develop an online computational simulation enhanced with learning analytics which undergraduate students can use to learn human physiology using both guided and pure discovery, and by designing, conducting and analyzing the results of authentic, simulation-based research.
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Building a Comprehensive Evolutionary History of Flagellate Plants
Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation. Amount: $2,233,768. Description: My role in this project is to design, develop, and evaluate the usability and efficacy of a web-based learning tool (The Flagellate Plant Phylogeny Voyager) and online library of teachable units for teaching flagellate plant diversity and systematic biology using inquiry and hypothesis driven formats.
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NeuroSynch: Understanding Collaborative Problem Solving via Research on Team Neurosynchronies
Role: Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: UF College of Education Research Incentive Fund (CRIF). Amount: $49,823. Description: This grant provided funds to purchase wireless EEG systems and recruit participants for a study that explored the differences between problem solving teams that used an epistemic script as a scaffold and teams that used a social script.
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Multimedia Learning Conditions with Dyslexic Learners
Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: UF Research Opportunity Fund (ROF). Amount: $98,206. Description: This grant supports a study of the effects of two multimedia learning conditions on the cognitive processing, efficacy, and recall performance of a group of undergraduate dyslexic students. This study includes behavioral, neurocognitive, learning performance, and psychophysiological measures.
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Cyber-Eye: Empowering Learning through Remote Visualizations using Unmanned Aerial Systems
Role: Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: National Science Foundation. Amount: $58,145. Description: This project focuses on using Unmanned Aerial Systems in Construction Engineering and Management courses to bring remote job-site environments into the classroom and enhance students’ processing of complex spatial and temporal information.
Past Grants
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Engaging Native Americans in NASA-centered STEM Cyberlearning and Career Awareness Activities.
Role: Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: NASA. Amount: $399,903. Description: This project focused on infusing NASA-centered problem solving activities into high school science in several rural Oklahoma school districts with a high percentage of Native American students. Problem solving was scaffolded using an online problem-based learning technology entitled ECLIPSE: Environment for Collaborative Learning Integrating Problem Solving Experiences.
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Usability of ECLIPSE
Role: Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: UF’s School of Teaching and Learning IDC Fund. Amount: $2,895. Description: This grant supported a study designed to explore the usability of ECLIPSE: Environment for Collaborative Learning Integrating Problem Solving Experiences among a group of undergraduate STEM students at the University of Florida.
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Online Learning Institute
Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: University of Florida Top 10 Preeminence Initiative. Amount: $600,000. Description: This grant provides funding for the establishment of the UF Online Learning Institute consisting of 4 faculty: one is Educational Technology (Director), one in Computer Science, one in Journalism and Communication, and one in Digital Arts.
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ECLIPSE: Environment for Collaborative Learning Integrating Problem Solving Experiences.
Role: Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: Oklahoma State University. Amount: $20,926. Description: This grant provided some of the support for the design of an online problem-based learning environment entitled ECLIPSE: Environment for Collaborative Learning Integrating Problem Solving Experiences.
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An Interdisciplinary Information Centric Program in Nano and Micro Systems.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: Oklahoma State University. Amount: $36,926. Description: This grant focused on designing an interdisciplinary graduate program in nano and micro system technologies.
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Improving Teacher Quality: Sustainability Engineering through Math, Science, Literacy, Technology and Problem-Based Learning
Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education: No Child Left Behind, Part B. Amount: $149,557. Description: This project provided professional development to interdisciplinary STEM teams of Oklahoma high school teachers and library/media specialists on integrating STEM in their respective classrooms through a focus on sustainability engineering and problem-based learning.
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Northeast Oklahoma STEM Partnership
Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: Oklahoma State Department of Education: Math and Science Partnership Program. Amount: $87,238. Description: This project provided professional development to interdisciplinary STEM teams of Oklahoma high school teachers and library/media specialists on integrating STEM in their respective classrooms through a collaborative instructional design approach.
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Moodle: Open Source LMS Exploration
Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Funding Agency: Computation Advisory Committee, Iowa State University. Amount: $80,000. Description: This project explored the applications of MOODLE as a learning management system (LMS)for hosting online and blended courses in several graduate programs at Iowa State University. The pilot testing of MOODLE revealed that it was a viable open source alternative to WebCT.