The mission is to conduct research, train students, and promote the use of advanced learning technologies in schools, universities, the workforce, and the midsouth community. Advanced learning technologies include computer-based training, eLearning courseware, intelligent tutoring systems, interactive multimedia, collaborative courseware, and other learning environments that reside o­n desktop, internet, intranet, and wireless platforms. Advanced learning technologies are adaptive to the abilities and preferences of individual learners and collectively cover a broad range of knowledge and skills.

The scope of this area of focus covers education, research, and outreach. We hope to educate students, faculty, staff, and the public o­n the capabilities and use of advanced learning technologies. These technologies need to be integrated more extensively with courses at the University of Memphis. In the arena of research, we will develop and evaluate learning technologies, publish research in scholarly outlets, and pursue external funding. We have already achieved national visibility o­n developing advanced learning technologies, with substantial external funding and scholarly publications. Attached are examples of learning technologies that have developed in the Institute for Intelligent Systems. The goal is to build o­n this momentum in developing and investigating learning technologies and to scale up these efforts so that many can benefit throughout the community and nation. Regarding outreach, there will be salient efforts to disseminate information o­n learning technologies to teachers of K-12, instructors in colleges and universities in the midsouth, the workforce, and community organizations.

Simply, we seek to create the digital knowledge environment of the future and make it available to all.