The cool factor for this paper (18 page PDF) is through the roof as it's part of a learning project called Alien Rescue. "Students, acting as young scientists are asked to participate in a rescue operation to find suitable relocation sites within our solar system for six different species of aliens who have been displaced from their home planets." This specific project involves the design of "a way for teachers to know, just-in-time, what features their students were accessing and the information (e.g., notes) their students entered in the program." The paper offers a detailed overview of the design process and offers a valuable insight into some of the deeper work being done in ed tech today (it's not all 'personalized learning' and such).
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