Results for the winter school have been declared. Overall acceptance rate for IPTSE Winter School 2011 was 17.4%. We received an overwhelming number of applications from premier institues all over India.
This internship program in technology-supported education will draw on broad
areas such as mobile learning, educational games, technology-assisted language
learning, computer-assisted collaborative learning, intelligent tutors, machine
learning, educational data mining, human-computer interaction, as well as speech
and language technologies. The goal is to create an international bridge between
institutions of higher learning in India and Carnegie Mellon University, which
is at the forefront of research both in technology and in the learning sciences
in the U.S., and even worldwide.
This internship program will provide valuable research training opportunities
for Indian undergraduates through a partnership between one of India's premier
technical universities and one of the top ranking schools of computer science in
the world, with the goal of expanding the pool of talented young researchers in
India. A secondary goal is to provide a mechanism through which ongoing research
partnerships can form and flourish between researchers at institutes for higher
learning in India and researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, such as taking the
form of co-advised B.Tech. projects. And finally, the internship program directly
benefits the infrastructure for education in India as a byproduct of the
research projects the students will engage in. As part of the internship program,
participants
will focus on topics relevant to education in India, and in the developing world
more generally.
