Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research STEM Grand Challenge ╔к_ Adaptive, Generalizable Intelligent Tutors for STEM and Naval Training and Education

Post Date

June 15th 2011

Application Due Date

September 30th 2011

White papers are due by the date specified in the Special Notice. Full Proposals should be submitted under ONRBAA11-001 by the date specified in the Special Notice. Full Proposals received after that date will be considered only insofar as agen

Funding Opportunity Number

11-SN-0019

CFDA Number(s)

12.300

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Eligibility Categories

Other

See ONRBAA11-001 for Eligibilty Information

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $8000000

• Award Range:

  $None - $None

Grant Description

The proposed topic will lead to new approaches for building adaptive and individualized intelligent tutors for STEM training and education that are able to: -Increase comprehension of instructional content over a fixed teaching duration and curriculum -Train to higher standards of competence (e.g., expertise), not simply enabling better recall -Accelerate the development of problem solving, reasoning, and decision-making skills The program will pursue a wide variety of approaches that address six issues that are key to developing the next generation of intelligent tutoring systems for STEM applications: 1) Designing computational cognitive models of student performance; 2) Enabling realistic and effective student ╔к_ intelligent tutor interactions; 3) Creating individually-tailored instructional strategies for delivering a large corpus of course material; 4) Generalizing the underlying technologies to multiple educational domains and populations; 5) Using the most current empirical research on the science of learning pedagogical approaches ( e.g. self-explanation); and 6) Designing tools for reducing the time and expertise needed to build these tutors. White Papers are required prior to submitting a Full Proposal. ************************************************************************************************************************************The Special Notice is available on the Grants.gov website by scrolling to the top of the synopsis page and clicking on the "FULL ANNOUNCEMENT" box surrounded by the dotted line at the top of the page.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Defense

• Office:

  Office of Naval Research

• Agency Contact:

  Sean Palmer
  Contract Specialist
  Phone 703-696-0942

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Grants.gov Questions

• Agency Email Address:

  sean.m.palmer@navy.mil

• More Information:

  Link to all ONR BAA's