The Language Learning Lab, which teaches dozens of languages available for library patrons to learn in a sound-proof, private study pod, was made possible with a donation from Seminole resident ...

Educators say digital tools help students practice without an age-old barrier that can inhibit foreign-language learning: embarrassment.

The 10-year-old language lab program has sent depot employees to more than 70 countries to install state-of-the-art computerized classrooms designed to teach English.

Along the same technological lines, the lab is currently partnering with the computer science department to develop videos for their experiments. In addition, the two departments are collaborating on a “machine version” of the experiment that tests the same questions with a language learning computer algorithm, Feiman said.

The State Library of Louisiana has opened a new Literacy and Learning Lab, offering hands-on and technology-based learning to promote literacy and a love of reading.

Whereas most of the university’s computer labs used to be managed and maintained on a departmental level within each college, they will now all be supported by a centralized Digital Learning Centers team.

Pieter Abbeel, who runs the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab in California, uses reinforcement-learning systems that compete against themselves to learn faster in a method called self-play.

Mitchel Resnick is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. His research group is best known for inventing two blockbuster educational technologies: the programmable bricks used in the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits and Scratch, a computer programming language that allows ...

The Core Machine Learning Lab, led by Professor Hongfu Liu, at Brandeis University's Michtom School of Computer Science focuses on cutting-edge core research in machine learning and artificial intelligence-assisted applications.