Research on Emerging Technologies: A Panel Speaks about Research Funded by NCTI

Research on Emerging Technologies: A Panel

Speaks about Research Funded by NCTI

Tracy GrayNCTI Project Director

CSUN 2009

NCTI is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). We seek to broaden and enrich the field by providing resources and promoting partnerships for the development of tools and applications by developers, manufacturers, producers, publishers and researchers.

Objectives:

To cultivate a collaborative network

To promote innovative products that reach the marketplace

To analyze needs, issues, trends, and promising technology innovation and transfer approaches

The time is right for innovation,

entrepreneurship, collaboration and

leadership.

New Issue Paper: Learning and Assistive

Technology: Thriving in a Global Marketplace

A Call to Action

Expand the market for AT to include quality of life tools for students and adults on a global scale.

A Call to Action

Inmagine

Maximize the use of open source and Web 2.0 tools to access an international workforce and learning opportunities.

A Call to ActionPartner with the expanding international market of consumer electronics to extend the reach of accessibility into mainstream consumer products.

A Call to ActionBoost the knowledge base by sharing domestic and global challenges, marketing research, and success stories with the larger community of learning and AT innovators.

A Call to ActionEnhance learning and achievement by promoting a globally competitive 21st century education that integrates universally designed solutions, including AT.

2009 Tech in the Works Competition

Intent:

To fund quick turnaround collaborative research that informs the development of learning and assistive technologies to improve educational results for all students, particularly those with disabilities.

Congratulations! 2008 Technology in the Works Awardees

Efficacy of a Computer-Assisted Teaching Program for Children with Autism in a School SettingChristina Whalen, TeachTown (vendor); Jennifer Symon, California State University, Los Angeles (researcher); and Connie Kasari, University of California, Los Angeles (researcher)

Exploring Accessible Computer Algebra System for Secondary Students with an LD or Visual ImpairmentEmily Bouck, assistant professor of Special Education, Purdue University (researcher); Waseem Sheikh, research software developer, gh, LLC (vendor); and Dave Schleppenbach, president, gh, LLC (vendor)

2008 Technology in the Works Awardees

Developing Fraction SenseJohn Laskarzewski, co-founder, Spotlight on Learning (vendor); Laura Susi, co-founder, Spotlight on Learning; and Dave Edyburn, professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (researcher)

Point-and-ChatBen Slotznick, president, Point-and-Read (vendor); Dave Hershberger, president, Saltillo (vendor); and Jeff Higginbotham, associate professor, State University of New York at Buffalo (researcher)

Supported Video Project: Making Video Content Accessible to AllDonna Horn, director, Universal Access to Media department, CaptionMax (vendor) and Lynne Anderson-Inman, director, National Center for Supported eText, University of Oregon (researcher)

Video Games: Enhancing Attention with NASA-developed Neurofeedback Technology Dominic Greco, President, CyberLearning Technologies, LLC (vendor), Judith Pokorni, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (researcher)

Social Simentor™: An E-learning Assistive Technology Lucy Baney, President and CEO, Access Technologies Group (vendor), Leslie Walker Hirsch, M.Ed. Consultant, Christine M. Casey, Ph.D. Educational Consultant  (researchers)

Congratulations! 2007 Technology in the Works Awardees

Bridge Builder Matthew Kaplowitz, Founding Partner and Director of Technology and Content Innovation, Bridge Multimedia (vendor) with Wendy K. Sapp, Ph.D., Consultant, Visual Impairment Education Services (researcher)

Project SOLO™ Karen A. Erickson, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (researcher) with Don Johnston, Inc. (vendor)

The Signing Science Dictionary Judy Vesel, B.Ed., TERC (researcher) with Edward M. Sims, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Vcom3D, Inc. (vendor) and Arthur C. Johnson, Ph.D., EduMetrics (researcher)

Congratulations! 2005 Technology in the Works

Awardees

SOLOTM and Access to General Education Curriculum George R. Peterson-Karlan, Ph.D., Illinois State University (researcher) and Howard P. Parette, Ed.D., Illinois State University (researcher) with Don Johnston, Inc. (vendor), and Sheri Piercy, Director of Special Education for Tri-County Special Education Association and Chair of HILIA Professional Development Committee

Mathematical Automaticity for Students with Disabilities Arjan S. Khalsa, Chief Executive Officer, IntelliTools, Inc. (vendor) and Edward J. Murphy, Chief Technology Officer, IntelliTools, Inc. (vendor) with David J. Chard, Ph.D., University of Oregon (researcher)

Congratulations! 2005 Technology in the Works Awardees

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