Can robots and augmented reality combine to better teach problem-solving skills to kindergartners and first-graders? Yanghee Kim’s latest grant from the National Science Foundation will explore that question. Kim, the NIU College of Education’s Morgridge Endowed Chair and director of NIU’s CREATE
Read moreNIU to open center for cutting-edge research in educational technology
Northern Illinois University is launching a new research center in 2019 to cultivate, support, harness and promote cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection of education and technology. As the first research center opened under the leadership of NIU President Lisa Freeman, CREATE (Cross-disciplinary
Read moreCyberlearning workshop to host sharing of research, expertise in child/robot collaborative system
When Yanghee Kim visited the College of Education last August, the new Morgridge Chair eagerly promoted her January 2018 workshop funded by the National Science Foundation. It begins Thursday. The Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning (CIRCL) Workshop on Robots, Young Children
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