Projects

The Mapping Lab
01Community College Pathways

Artificial Intelligence

Modeling Community College Pathways

Modeling how community college students navigate complex systems of courses, transfers, and competing life demands that shape whether they complete their programs.

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02Open Ed Graph

Open Educational Resources

Open Ed Graph: Mapped learning outcomes, assessments and topics

Open Ed Graph is a collection of fine-grained learning outcomes, assessments and topics mapped into a graph structure. Data sets spanning College Algebra, Accounting, undergraduate STEM and more.

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03Fly-by-Wire in classroom

Adaptive Learning · Artificial Intelligence

Fly-by-Wire: Using AI to assist teachers and scaffold students

Using artificial intelligence, Fly-by-Wire detects why an individual student is struggling, recommends personalized content to the student, and recommends actions to the teacher. A national collaboration with Arapahoe Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, MIT, edX and Broad-based Knowledge.

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04Xoces

Outcomes Mapping

Xoces: Mapping outcomes for curriculum design and adaptive learning

The Xoces project to map outcomes was conceived at MIT. Mapping outcomes results in a useful data set that feeds into curriculum redesign and adaptive learning applications. An international collaboration.

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05Signals and Systems

Outcomes Mapping

Signals & Systems

An experimentation and demonstration of the power of mapping. We parsed LaTeX notes into HTML, mapped notes to outcomes, and created a web and mobile app enabling students to search for resources by intent instead of topics. All content fed via API.

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06Crosslinks

Concept Mapping · Open Educational Resources

Crosslinks: A visual and contextual way to browse OER

Crosslinks is a wiki on which learners can add and edit topics and draw linkages between them and to resources they have found helpful. Embedded in MIT OCW, it serves thousands of learners daily and OER adopters world-wide.

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