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Learning Design and Technology
LDT Expo 2024 Presentations
On behalf of the faculty of the Learning Design & Technology Program at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford, THANK YOU for attending the presentations of the 2024 LDT master’s projects.
For the LDT Master's Project, students conceive and research a learning challenge, then build and test a solution of their own design. They spend hundreds of hours and complete projects with modest assistance from faculty and others. The project gives students a chance to demonstrate an understanding of learning theories as well as mastery of the skills involved in designing and testing a learning experience enhanced by technology.
At EXPO, we invite experts (you!) to listen to the students’ presentations and provide formative feedback on the projects. The students will spend about 20 minutes presenting their master’s project, then take questions from the invited reviewers and audience members. We invite individuals with a variety of perspectives, including faculty, designers, researchers, and those who are active professionally in fields directly related to the projects. We hope that you will add your unique voice to the conversation.
We invite you to attend any project presentations that you find interesting, whether or not you are on the review panel for that project. Below is the full schedule so that you can drop in if you’d like. Soon, we will post videos introducing the projects to prepare for the conversations.
Zoom links will be posted below.
Presentation Schedule
| 9:00am PDT | Takondwa Priscilla Semphere: Kiniverse Kiniverse is a digital platform for inter-generational learning within families and communities. Panelists: Adam Banks, Keith Bowen, Brigid Barron, Aya Mouallem |
| 10:00 am PDT | Brent Johnson: Quizeo.ai With a single device, Quizeo.ai engages students to collaborate in global quiz competitions. Fun for students. Simple for teachers. Panelists: Nick Haber, Grace Lin, Adam Sparks |
| 10:00 am PDT | Sophie Chen: EmpowerPath EmpowerPath helps job-seeking students turn anxiety from uncertainties into productive energy. Panelists: Anthony Antonio, Brigid Barron, Stephen Torres, Dustin Liu, David Obershaw |
| 3:00 pm PDT | Chinat Yu: Hackathon Horizons Transform intensive learning environments into effective learning journeys through goal-setting and self-monitoring. Panelists: Victor Lee, John Mitchell, Nick Haber, Chris Bennett |
| 4:00 pm PDT | Madhumitha Cherukuri, Maho Kohga, & Sreejith Mohan: Connecting Dots Connecting Dots helps college students in interdisciplinary programs make connections across disciplines. Reflective questions and concept mapping help synthesize information, leading to more aha! moments. Panelists: Hari Subramonyam, Roy Pea, Kristen Blair, Glenn Fajardo |
| 9:00 am PDT | Khongorzul Bat-Ireedui: College Knowledge College Knowledge empowers Mongolian college counselors through online training, equipping them to guide students as they apply to international institutions abroad. Panelists: Denise Pope, Keith Bowen, Connie Chang, Anthony Antonio |
| 10:00 am PDT | Bruno Lam: Braintrust Braintrust works with industry professionals to design learning experiences that enable frontline workers to test drive their desired future job. Panelists: Candace Thille, Melanie Shimano, Amy Ahearn, Rania Younes, Emi Kuboyama |
| 2:00 pm PDT | Cindy Liu: caTrée With caTrée, family caregivers grow their network awareness, connections, and resource sharing through a tangible support tree and an online community. Panelists: Roy Pea, David Obershaw, Katie Smith, Tom Guntly |
| 3:00 pm PDT | Emily Liu: garden of mind garden of mind — a cozy mobile application for college students — rewards pixel flowers for practicing daily mindfulness and supporting friends, cultivating a peer community of learning, belonging, and joy. Panelists: Roy Pea, Kristen Blair, David Obershaw, Mark Abramson |
| 4:00 pm PDT | Christine Irish: TryTo.ai Designed for neurodiverse learners, TryTo.ai combines AI interview practice and personalized learning modules to improve job interview performance and boost employment prospects. Panelists: Candace Thille, John Mitchell, Glenn Fajardo, Adele Smolansky, Keith Bowen |
| 10:00 am PDT | Danielle Fong & Pearlyn Kwang: Chalk Up Chalk Up empowers teachers to identify their own strengths and learning needs. It provides personalized insights and resources for productive professional growth. Panelists: Hilda Borko, Denise Pope, Doris Choy, Sarah Levine, Candace Thille |
| 3:00 pm PDT | Jerry Shan: AI Playground Learn AI interactively by creating and playing with your own AI models through AI Playground’s original flow-based visual programming environment and its accompanying curriculum. Panelists: Victor Lee, Christine Bywater, Nick Haber, Mike Hardy |
| 4:00 pm PDT | Ana Marini & Anchal Sayal: Hi Langee! Hi! Langee empowers parents with strategies to build heritage language skills in their children through daily conversations. Panelists: Ramon Antonio Martinez, Brigid Barron, Nereyda Salinas, Kavindya Thennakoon |
Each 40-minute session includes a short discussion and brief written reviews. Please provide your feedback online (link to come).
You may find it helpful to know some criteria we look for in the master’s projects. While you are encouraged to provide any feedback that you consider significant and relevant, you may also refer to the following questions.
To what extent do the students…
- Address a clear and compelling learning problem?
- Articulate specific strengths of and challenges faced by the target learners?
- Provide a theory of how to promote learning that drives key features of their designs?
- Leverage existing scholarship and gather new data to guide development and show evidence of impact?
- Make powerful use of technology?
- Fit into a social and organizational setting?
- Reflect lessons learned during the project?
Celebration of Learning: Demo Day!
We hope you will join us for demos and conversations with the students in person!
When: Friday, August 2, from 4:00 - 6:00
Where: CERAS. See details at ed.stanford.edu/ldt/expo.
