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James C. Lester

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Open access Aug 2026

Exploring approaches to measuring student engagement across computer-supported collaborative learning contexts

Supporting meaningful student engagement is an important goal of educators and educational researchers. However, there are many variations in definitions and measures of engagement, making it challenging to recognize and design for deep engagement. To address this challenge, the purpose of this work is to interroga...

Selena Steinberg, Xiao-Tian Zou, Megan Humburg et al. · 0 citations
Book Open access Aug 2026

A Theory-Informed Narrative-Centered Model to Foster AI Literacy and Biomedical Career Interest

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly central to healthcare and biomedical research, there is a growing need for learning experiences that help students understand AI concepts while envisioning future career pathways. This paper presents a theory-informed narrative-centered model designed to foster AI li...

Bradford W. Mott, Jessica Vandenberg, Carlos Penilla et al. · 0 citations
Book Open access Aug 2026

Generating Clue-Driven Investigative Game Narratives with Large Language Models

Results demonstrate that this approach can generate coherent, playable investigative narratives across a broad range of themes and subject matter areas (e.g., STEM, logistics, analytical thinking), enabling more scalable authoring of interactive story-driven games.

Vikram Kumaran, A. Smith, Wookhee Min et al. · 0 citations

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