FoL 2026
L@S

Modeling @ Scale (2)

Wed Jul 1, 2:00 PM–3:15 PM · North 205
★ Notable speakers
Candace Thille ★★ — Founding the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at CMU (2002); applying learning sciences to open adaptive learning; MOOCs and large-scale online learning; Director of Learning Science at Amazon; Associate Professor at Stanford GSE
Ashok K. Goel ★★ — Creator of Jill Watson, the first AI teaching assistant deployed at scale; cognitive systems, case-based reasoning, AI in education; directs Georgia Tech Design Intelligence Lab and the NSF AI-ALOE Institute
David Joyner — Scaling online graduate CS education (Georgia Tech OMSCS), AI-supported learning at scale, design of large online courses, AI teaching assistants; author of 'Teaching at Scale'
Guilherme Lichand — Field experiments on EdTech, mobile SMS learning interventions, educational inequality in the Global South
Benjamin W. Domingue — Psychometrics, item response theory, causal inference in education, genomics of educational outcomes, the Item Response Warehouse open-data initiative

A session grouping L@S papers on statistical and computational modeling of student learning processes at scale.

3 talks in this session