[on behalf of Neil Heffernan]
I am pleased to announce WPI will be hiring in educational games. We might
also entertain a hire in reinforcement learning that our growing data
science program would benefit from. See job ad below.
Neil
Subject: Tenure Track Job in Educational Games
Dear Colleague,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute is pleased to announce an opening in our
desire to hire someone that interested in education games into a tenure
track position. We anticipate the candidate would be tenured in the
computer science department, and teach in both 1) the growing Interactive
Media and Game Development <http://imgd.wpi.edu/> Program Graduate and
Undergraduate programs, and 2) the Learning Sciences and Technology
<http://www.wpi.edu/academics/lst/gradprograms.html> Graduate Program.
We hope such a candidate can find interdisciplinary colleagues to work with
here at WPI.
Candidate are expected to create games that are meant to promote student
learning. WPI has a program that that has 50,000 middle school students
using ASSISTments, and that testbed can serve as a subject pool for
candidate games to teach middle school math. Candidates might want to
investigate this resource to see if their research program would benefit to
use of such a resource. Candidates interested can learn more here
<http://www.neilheffernan.net/wearehiring>. If you have questions about
integrating with ASSISTments please email nth@xxxxxxx. I am a member of
the hiring committee and the Director of the graduate program in Learning
Science and Technology.
WPI's Computer Science Department has other positions available in these
areas <http://web.cs.wpi.edu/facultyhire/>.
Neil T. Heffernan. Professor
Department Computer Science and Psychology
100 Institute Road
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA 01609
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~nth
508-831-5569 www.assistment.org
