Korinn Ostrow has been a Learning Engineer at Edmentum since Fall of 2021. During her time at Edmentum, Korinn has led her team's participation in a cross-functional collaboration to design, implement, and analyze the A/B release of a critical feature in a K12 digital learning system used by millions of students. She has also explored big data on learner engagement to inform the development of analytic data dashboards, driven thought leadership for the company via conference submissions and a white paper on productive persistence to be released in Fall of 2023.

Prior to taking on her role with Edmentum, Korinn served as a Research Scientist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She was also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Social Sciences & Policy Studies teaching a Research Methods course for the Learning Sciences & Technologies program during the Fall 2018 semester.  

Korinn received her Ph.D. in Learning Sciences & Technologies in May 2018 from WPI, where she was advised by Neil Heffernan and worked in the ASSISTments Lab. Her background is rooted in Cognitive Psychology and Research Methods, with a B.S. in Psychology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and an M.S. in Learning Sciences & Technologies from WPI. Her research at WPI focused on elements of student motivation and engagement within adaptive online learning. She conducted randomized controlled experiments to test cognitive principles and isolate interventions that drive student retention in classwork and homework. Her work was published at a number of leading conferences that fall at the intersection of educational data mining and learner analytics. Specifically, her interests during her graduate work included examining self-determination theory in the context of online learning; examining the efficacy of learning interventions for student motivation, engagement, and retention; applying experimental methods at scale; conducting randomized controlled trials; and applying learning analytics and educational data mining techniques to data from adaptive learning technologies and intelligent tutoring systems. 

Korinn served as co-PI on an NSF Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) grant that she wrote while completing her dissertation (CIF21 DIBBs: PD: Enhancing and Personalizing Educational Resources through Tools for Experimentation; 1724889, $544,644). The grant spanned three years (2017-2020) with a no cost extension year and aimed to drastically enhance how researchers used ASSISTments as a research tool. She also won $2 million from Schmidt Futures to support a team that she led as Project Manager, supporting the design and development of E-TRIALS, an EdTech Research Infrastructure to Advance Learning Science. She also won an additional $3.3 million from an NSF Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) grant to extend E-TRIALS into higher education and Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) environments. Her diverse team of 9 - including undergraduate and graduate students as well as full time employees - applied Design Thinking and industry standard UX approaches, ultimately releasing a pilot of the E-TRIALS application in the summer of 2021.