[edm-announce] Postdoc in Dynamic Enhancement & Personalization of Educational Technology: National University of Singapore in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon
- From: Stephen Fancsali <sfancsali@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: edm-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 13:35:44 -0400
[on behalf of Joseph Jay Williams]
Multiple postdoctoral positions are immediately available for a broad range
of educational research that designs interventions and experiments to
dynamically enhance and personalize real-world educational technologies,
from K12 to university courses and MOOCs. The postdoc can set the agenda
for research questions, as the focus on dynamic experiments in technology
is amenable to candidates with backgrounds in any of the following:
human-computer interaction, psychology, education, applied reinforcement
learning and natural language processing.
The postdoc will be based at the National University of Singapore's
Institute for the Application of Learning Sciences and Educational
Technology (ALSET <http://nus.edu.sg/alset/>) and the School of Computing,
working with Joseph Jay Williams
<http://www.josephjaywilliams.com/research-overview> and Min Yen Kan
<https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kanmy/>. ALSET provides unique access to data
about university students, and opportunities to run large-scale
personalized interventions on-campus and in MOOCs. There will be
opportunities to work with and visit close collaborators at other
universities (Carnegie Mellon, as well as Harvard University and KAIST).
The postdoc will play a key role in which projects are pursued, but
illustrative examples of potential research directions are:
A human-computer interaction focus on developing systems for
crowdsourcing the design of online math problems, and discovering how to
personalize delivery of problems to university students. Example
Publication venues: CHI, IUI, HCOMP, ACM Learning at Scale.
A data mining and applied machine learning focus on methods for
dynamically enhancing and personalizing instruction, especially from the
perspective of techniques from multi-armed bandits/reinforcement learning,
Bayesian optimization, applied deep learning research in natural language
processing. Publication venues: EDM, AIED, ACM Learning at Scale, ACL,
EMNLP, KDD, WWW, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI.
A cognitive or social psychology focus on investigating why and when
prompting students to explain text/video lectures promotes learning, and
how generating explanations interacts with prior knowledge, teaching
metacognitive skills and self-regulated learning of study behaviors,
social-psychological interventions for enhancing motivation such as Growth
Mindset and Wise Feedback. Publication venues: Psychological Science,
Journal of Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Science.
An education focus on investigating effective instructional principles
for different subgroups of learners, developing technology that discovers
how to tailor and personalize motivational interventions. Publication
venues: LAK, CSCL/ICLS, AERA, Instructional Science, Journal of Educational
Psychology, Computers & Human Behavior.
Application Instructions
To apply for the position, please email Joseph Jay Williams (
williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) and Min Yen Kan (kanmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) with the
subject line "Postdoc in Dynamically Enhancing & Personalizing Educational
Technology" and your name, with the following as attachments:
(1) Curriculum Vitae (Complete).
(2) Names and contact information of 3 references who are familiar with
your research. We will follow up with your references to secure their
recommendation letters on your behalf.
In your email application, please include a brief explanation of your
research interests and how they fit with this position (in lieu of a formal
cover letter). Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the
position is filled.
Joseph Jay Williams
www.josephjaywilliams.com
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems & Analytics, School of Computing
National University of Singapore
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