The Daily Bulletin

Angela Thering, lecturer in the Social and Psychological Foundations of Education and Adult Education Department, was accepted for the inaugural cohort of Carnegie Mellon’s Data Science for Education (DS4EDU) Fellows Training Program. This fellowship is offered through a partnership between SUNY OER Services and Carnegie Mellon University.

This one-year fellowship is designed to support learning professionals with a diverse set of skills and experiences. It provides training in both educational data science methods and the types of ed tech tools that are best suited to generating and analyzing robust learning data. Supported by the Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences (IES), the DS4EDU program supports cohorts of 25 participants who spend their fellowship working closely with a team of CMU learning and data scientists. The program combines foundational skills in data science and instructional design with training on advanced methods and tools to instrument and research learning. The program emphasizes a trainee-designated project that is the focus of each individual’s work over the year. This approach ensures that the program has real-world relevance and capitalizes on the vision, ingenuity, and experiences of the cohort. Fellows emerge from the program as leaders, with expertise in the tools and methods needed to advance their projects and the field.