News
September 1st, 2008
Roger Taylor has joined the Teachable Agents Lab as an IES Post-Doctoral Fellow.
August 25th, 2008
Brian Sulcer has joined the Teachable Agents Lab as new graduate student.
August 7-9th, 2008
The Teachable Agent Group at Vanderbilt visited Stanford University to visit our collaborators in the AAA Lab at Stanford in Palo Alto, CA.
July 23-26th, 2008
Gautam Biswas and Rod Roscoe attended the 30th Annual Cognitive Science Conference in Washington, DC.
July 15th, 2008
Denise Armstrong and Wendy Holmgren finished their research experiences with the Teachable Agents Lab. Denise collaborated with Hogy to create a simulation of rollercoasters to help students learn physics. Wendy collaborated with Rod and Garrett to create a simulation of the Sonoran Desert to teach students about ecology.
July 10th, 2008
Claire Gui finished her summer internship with the Teachable Agents lab. Her work on learning with computer simulatons was presented at the Center for Science Outreach High School Research poster session.
July 1-4th, 2008
James Segedy presented a paper at the 8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, in Santander, Cantabria, Spain.
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 10-12th, 2008
Gautam Biswas, Rod Roscoe, and Hogyeong Jeong attended the Institute of Educational Sciences Research Conference in Washington, DC.
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.