Constanza Miranda wins DELTA Award

Constanza Miranda, an associate teaching professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, a senior lecturer in Center for Leadership Education, have been awarded one of five 2024 Digital Education and Learning Technology Acceleration (DELTA) Grants.

Chosen from a pool of 28 submissions, their proposal, titled “Learning Analytics for Engineering Design Education: Tracking Time on Tasks to Encourage Self-Organization Skills in Undergraduate Engineering Students,” has been selected by the Johns Hopkins Provost’s Office to receive a grant of up to $75,000 to support innovation in learning through digital technology.

This year’s winning proposals will receive a total of $364,000. In the seven years since its creation, the DELTA Awards program has distributed more than $2.6 million in funding to 41 awardees, enhancing education both within and outside the university.

Their proposal focuses on improving undergraduate students’ self-regulation and task management skills that may have been lost due to distance-learning challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, and weaker study habits built in early education for some students. Guided by a previously effective in-class learning analytics assessment tool, their current project will be to create and pilot an automated version of time-on-task measurements in an engineering-design course. They hope their pilot that can be used on other project-based courses enhancing teaching and learning across the university.

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