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Benefits to Practitioners

Practioners contribute to Navigator in a unique way. Content providers contribute to Navigator by helping build competency models tagging existing open content with rich metadata. Implementers and users provide anonymized data from their use of Navigator which fuels the research-to-practice cycle, and tool providers develop open-source Navigator and other tools to Navigator users.

Validator Benefits

Include access to real-time data to study the efficacy of their tools and practices. Changes made to the content, tools, and practices are informed by data to continually enhance and support learning outcomes and instructor practices.

Membership

Navigator is free for students and teachers. Our Practitioners pay a fee based on their organization size and usage and gain a much more in-depth use of the technology. A paid membership gives members tenancy on the Navigator platform, access to Mission Control for all the stakeholders, unlimited access to all the Navigator tools for instructors and learners and the Library tool, personalized training, consulting services for strategic use of Navigator, dedicated user support, as well as many other collaborative opportunities.

Membership

Nancy Butler Songer, PhD

Nancy Butler Songer is a Distinguished University Professor and Dean of the School of Education at Drexel University. Dr. Songer is an expert in science education and learning technologies with particular emphasis on the assessment of science knowledge and the design of learning environments that emphasize critical thinking in science.

Teomara (Teya) Rutherford, PhD

Dr. Teomara (Teya) Rutherford at the University of Delaware is working to understand how motivation and self-regulation feature in student's choices within Math Navigator and how their choices illustrate their strengths and area of improvement in social-emotional learning to provide actionable insights for teachers.

Srinath Srinivasa, PhD

Srinath Srinivasa is Dean of Research and Professor of Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology at Bangalore (IIIT-B). He works in the broad areas of web information retrieval, multi-agent systems, network analysis and text mining.

Kenji Hakuta, PhD

Kenji Hakuta is an Emeritus Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. His areas of teaching and research are bilingualism, second language acquisition, education policy and social and experimental research.
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Tanya Dewey, PhD

Dr. Dewey of Colorado State University is interested in the impact of authentic, data-driven inquiry on student engagement and learning gains in biology classrooms. She works with faculty across the United States to improve integration of quantitative and data-driven skills into undergraduate classrooms.

Youngmoo Kim, PhD

Dr. Youngmoo Kim is Director of the Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University. He is interested in human-machine interfaces and robotics for expressive interaction, analysis-synthesis of sound, and K-12 outreach for engineering, science, and mathematics education.

Vasile Rus, PhD

Dr. Rus conducts state-of-the-art research and teaching in the area of language and information processing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Memphis. He explores fundamental topics such as natural language based knowledge representations, semantic similarity, and question answering as well as applications such as intelligent tutoring systems and software defect knowledge management.

Anjini Kochar, PhD

Anjini Kochar is the Director of the India Programme at the Stanford Centre for International Development (SCID) and former Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Stanford University. Her research focuses on the micro-economics of development, and specifically on issues related to education, health, credit, population, inequality and the effectiveness of government programs.

Neal Finkelstein, PhD

Dr. Neal Finkelstein serves as Co-Director of WestEd's Innovation Studies program. He is responsible for developing research and evaluation designs that study the impact of program implementation in K–12 public schools.

Lav Varshney, PhD

Lav Varshney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is interested in analyzing socio-technical information systems through data analytics.
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