• Amplifying Learning through Electronic Textbooks
  With the emergence of abundant online content, cloud computing, and electronic reading devices, textbooks are poised for transformative changes. Taking into account the vast amount of existing textbooks designed for traditional printed medium and the potential for enabling new kinds of functionalities through the medium of electronic textbooks, we present the results of our research into algorithmically diagnosing and enhancing the quality of textbooks.
• Automated Problem Generation for Education
  Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) can significantly enhance the educational experience, both in the classroom and online. A key aspect of ITS is the ability to automatically generate problems of a certain difficulty level and that exercise use of certain concepts. This can help avoid copyright or plagiarism issues and help generate personalized workflows. This project develops technologies for problem generation in various subject domains including math, logic, and even language learning.
• VidWiki: Crowd-Enhanced Online Learning
  VidWiki is a project out of MSR India that leverages the crowd to improve the quality and content of online video lectures like those produced by Khan Academy, Coursera, EdX, and Udacity. Through the online platform, users annotate videos by overlaying content on top of the video. Annotations can be typed text, LaTeX equations, shapes, images, or custom pen-drawn notes directly on the canvas.
• qCards - Low-Cost Audience Polling Using Computer Vision
  Polling large audiences in real-time with only a webcam or smartphone and paper cards for the audience.

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