The funding that makes the ASSISTment system possible

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WPI gives the service away for free. Many people ask us why?.

Recent Funding

• Our newest funder is EDUCAUSE through the Next Generation Learning Challenges(NGLC). The primary funders behind the NGLC are the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation.

• NSF gives another $700,000 to WPI. Everyone wants a high school drop out predictor; we are creating a "losing" interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) predictor. See here.

• NSF funds with $700,000 Professor Joe Beck to refine the ARRS system. DRL-1109483

Pending Funding

• The Office of Naval Research informed UMASS and WPI that our proposal for “Building an Effective and Efficient OPEN Tutor Platform for Multiple Populations” is going to be funded. Its not official yet.
• The US Dept of Education is looking at funding a 3.5 million dollar efficacy grant. The PI disinterred research team doing the study as SRI.
• The "Evaluate Web Pages" Project is an example of a interesting new research angle we can now do.

General Funding

The prime sponsors of ASSISTments are the U.S. Department of Education (Grant #R305K03140, #R305A07440 and the National Math Center grant #R305C100024 ) and the National Science Foundation (Grant #0231773, DRL-1109483, CAREER Grant #REC-0448319, a GK12 grant #0742503 and an ITEST DRL-1031398).

Funding for Science ASSISTments comes from (NSF DRL-0733286 and others). Additional funding that has attributed to the success of the project has come from The Spencer Foundation, the United States Army, the GE Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research(Grant #N00014-03-1-0221). We also got a grant from the Massachusetts government via from the Mass. Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center focus on helping scale up inventions occurring in MA. Amazon has given ASSISTments free computing resources. Read about the details of all these grants grants here.

My students should use this shortened version to acknowledge the many funders

This page was created by Cristina Heffernan 2010.