Watch the AI-ALOE webinar recording
AI-ALOE recently sponsored a webinar about the National Tutoring Observatory (NTO), featuring Dr. Rene Kizilcec, Associate Professor in Cornell University’s Department of Information Science and Director of the Future of Learning Lab.
The NTO aims to advance the science of learning and teaching by providing a large-scale dataset of tutors’ and teachers’ improvisational moves, such as unplanned responses to challenging questions and spontaneous interactions with students who are struggling, frustrated, bored, or disengaged. Coupled with data on how those improvisational moves affect student learning, this information is invaluable in improving learning outcomes and developing AI tools for teaching and learning!
The “Million Tutor Moves” Dataset
Given the proliferation of virtual learning stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is now a massive amount of tutoring recordings that can be used to enhance student learning. The NTO is creating an open-source infrastructure that processes these recordings of K-12 and college-level tutoring and makes them available for research and development. There are plans to expand the dataset to include adult learning. The goal is to reach 1M moves in the initial NTO dataset.
The NTO also offers services to tutoring providers and school districts who partner with them. Interested in partnering with the National Tutoring Observatory? Complete the NTO Partner Interest Form.
Watch the webinar recording on the Georgia Tech website for details on the NTO, including details on the team, partners, research infrastructure, data pipeline, and data de-identification measures.
The webinar also covers these education projects:
Deliberate Practice with Simulated Patients and Immediate Feedback for medical students, with a MedSimAI patient-interaction demo
Course Assistance and Dynamic Activities with AI in Higher Education for university students, with a HiTA AI teaching assistant chatbot demo
More about the National Tutoring Observatory
The NTO was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a mid-scale research infrastructure (MSRI) incubator, and also received funding from the Gates Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Visit the NTO website to learn more: https://nationaltutoringobservatory.org.
