News
June 12, 2008
Wendy Holmgren and Denise Armstrong have joined the Teachable Agents Group as a part of the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program.
June 2, 2008
Claire Gui has joined the Teachable Agents Group as a part of the High School Research Internship Program,
offered by the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach.
May 16, 2008
John Wagster has graduated from Vanderbilt University with his master's degree. He has accepted a Research Associate position with Digital Reasoning Systems.
January 7, 2008
Garrett Linn has joined the Teachable Agents Group.
May 12, 2007
Betty's Brain and the Teachable Agents Group is featured in the Spring 2007 issue of Eye On The LSI, the quarterly newsletter of the Learning Sciences Institute at Vanderbilt University.
External link: PDF of the Spring 2007 issue of Eye On The LSI
October 1, 2006
The Teachable Agents Group has received a Cognition and Student Learning Grant from the U.S. Departement of Education (Institute of Education Sciences) to study "A Learning by Teaching Approach to Help Students Develop Self-Regulatory Learning Skills in Middle School Science Classrooms"
External link: Cognition and Student Learning - FY 2006 Awards from the IES website
June 2, 2006
Two new papers from the Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Cognitive Science 2006 conferences are available.
January 6, 2006
Some photos have been added to the Betty page.
November 28, 2005
Dr. Thomas Katzlberger's Ph.D. dissertation is now online.
November 4, 2005
The Learning Sciences Institute has released a new documentary, produced by Lyle Jackson. The documentary includes a 3 minute segment on Betty's Brain.
Download the video clip (15.8MB - DivX .avi movie file)
You can also view the documentary in its entirety here.
August 16, 2005
Dr. Krittaya Leelawong's Ph.D. dissertation is now online.
Several other recent publications have also been added to the recent papers section.