Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150104267

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150104267

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Solving the inert knowledge problem. A central goal of education is for students to transfer what they learn to new contexts or problems. Indeed, expert reasoning is often characterised by seeing the deep structural commonalities across seemingly disparate situations. However, the knowledge students acquire is notoriously inert, tied to the specifics of the learning examples. This project aims to move towards solving 'the inert knowledge problem' by investigating how humans learn concepts defined by abstract relational structure, and by designing educational applications that enhance the use of relational learning mechanisms in students with a wide range of cognitive abilities.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 15-01-2015

End Date: 31-10-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $365,100.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cognitive Science | Learning Sciences | Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning | Decision Making

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Teaching and Instruction Technologies | Learner and Learning Processes | Learner Development |

Other Keywords

Cognitive Science | Decision Making | Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning | Learner Development | Learner and Learning Processes | Learning Sciences | Teaching and Instruction Technologies

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