Director

Philip I. Pavlik Jr., Professor

Portrait of Philip I. Pavlik Jr.

Director of the Optimal Learning Lab

Dr. Pavlik's work connects cognitive theory with educational software design, especially in the areas of memory modeling, adaptive practice, and model-based instructional decisions. His training includes dissertation work with John Anderson in Carnegie Mellon University's Psychology Department and work with Ken Koedinger in Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.

Current Team

Current lab members

Hannah-Joy Simms

PhD student.

Rusty Haner

Master's student and contributor to MoFaCTS development.

Collaborators

Project collaborators

Luke G. Eglington

Collaborator on LKT modeling and related analytics work. Currently at Amplify.

Shelbi Kuhlmann, Assistant Professor

Collaborator on adaptive video work using a skinned MoFaCTS deployment.

Alumni

Completed students

PhD alumni

Meng Cao, Wei Chu, Jaclyn Maass, Kenneth Barideaux, Chanda Murphy, Henry Hua

Master's alumni

Blake Telfer, Kaitlyn Peperone, Clayton Estey, Shardae Dawkins, Adam Boyd

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