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 Postdoctoral Positions -- Learning and Motivation
Institution/Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Job Location: Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Job Type: Postdoctoral
Contact Person: Timothy Nokes
Date Posted: May 1st, 2009
Web Site: http://www.learnlab.org/


Applications are invited for 2 postdoctoral positions for researchers with interests in learning and motivation. We are looking for cognitive science PhD’s (education, psychology, learning science, computer science, or human-computer interaction) to join Drs. Timothy Nokes and Vincent Aleven in an NSF-funded project at the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center to examine learning at the intersection of cognition, motivation, and emotion. The postdoc will be involved in helping design, conduct, analyze, and write-up research at the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC). For more information, see:

http://www.learnlab.org/
and
http://www.learnlab.org/research/wiki/index.php/Metacognition_and_Motivation

Candidates with a strong grounding in educational psychology or cognitive science, as well as candidates with a strong background in learning technologies or technology-enhanced learning (including applied machine learning, affective computing, and user modeling), will be considered. Each position is for two years, with one appointment to be made at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh and the other at the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Target start date: August/September 2009

Submit vita, statement of research interests, and three letters of reference to Marge Gibson (mgibson@pitt.edu) by May 31st, 2009.

Interested applicants are invited to direct inquiries to either:

Timothy J. Nokes
Assistant Professor of Psychology and
Learning Sciences and Policy
Research Scientist, LRDC
University of Pittsburgh

nokes@pitt.edu
(412) 624-7789
http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/nokes/CSL-lab-home.html

or

Vincent Aleven
Assistant Professor
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

aleven@cs.cmu.edu
(412) 268-5475
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aleven




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