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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary collaborations in the Learning Sciences: Researc
 h on instruction with visualizations
DTSTART:20231215T103000
DTEND:20231215T114500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Professor Martina Rau\, ETH\nJoin us for an insightful talk by
  Prof. Dr. Martina Rau\, Full Professor of Research on Learning and Instru
 ction at the Department of Humanities\, Social and Political Sciences at E
 TH Zurich.\n\nVisual representations play an important role in MINT learni
 ng. They are intuitive and thought to facilitate learning. However\, stude
 nts often misinterpret visualizations\, and – in part because they seem 
 so intuitive – both students and instructors remain unaware of these dif
 ficulties. \n\nProfessor Martina Rau’s research takes an interdiscipli
 nary approach to addressing this issue. Trained in educational psychology 
 and human-computer interaction\, she combines controlled experiments with 
 user-centered studies to investigate how instruction can use visualization
 s productively.\n\nIn doing so\, she has been collaborating with professor
 s and instructors in domains such as chemistry and engineering to align he
 r interventions with disciplinary practices.\n\nFurther\, in collaboration
  with computer scientists\, her projects have used machine-learning method
 s to improve instructional interventions beyond what a human teacher could
  achieve.\n\nBesides presenting effective ways of using visualizations in 
 instruction\, Professor Martina Rau will reflect on the merits of interd
 isciplinary research collaborations. \n 
LOCATION:ME A3 31 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ME%20A3%2031 https://epfl.zo
 om.us/j/68706038039
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