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Benjamin Motz

Computer Science · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2004
Online Learning and AnalyticsOnline and Blended LearningInnovative Teaching and Learning MethodsVisual and Cognitive Learning ProcessesEducational Strategies and Epistemologies

Publications

90

Citations

1,251

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

23

Publishing since 2004

Research summary
AI-generated

Benjamin Motz studies how people learn, using data from real classrooms and online learning platforms to test what teaching methods actually improve understanding. His work spans learning analytics (analyzing data collected by course software), the effectiveness of study techniques like self-testing and prequestions, and tools for running experiments in educational settings. Recent projects also examine misinformation and how people process facts.

Learning analytics and educational dataOnline and blended learningEffective study and teaching methodsExperimental education research toolsMisinformation and understanding

Publication activity has been steady-to-growing over the last decade, with a notable peak of 12 publications in 2025.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

Current awards run through July 2027 — about under a year of funding on record from today. Awards are often renewed, so this is what is currently public, not a forecast.

  • ActiveNSF 2508763through Jul 2027 · $200k awarded

    Planning: AI-Ready: TOPSAIL: The AI-Ready Test Bed in Education

1 earlier award
  • NSF 2243778Mar 2023 – Feb 2026 · $500k awarded

    RCN: INTERACT: An Incubator to Enable Scalable Education Equity Research with Terracotta

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 848 mid career Computer Science PIs within our index
Citations: 1,251cohort median 432
h-index: 16cohort median 10
Publications / year (recent): 7.4cohort median 3.9

Typically publishes in teams of ~4 · 44% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 21 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 7.4/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 7 publications182019: 4 publications192020: 10 publications202021: 9 publications212022: 7 publications222023: 9 publications232024: 3 publications242025: 12 publications12252026: 6 publications26
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 0 collaborators at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 4 collaborators at the same institution2020: 6 collaborators at the same institution2021: 5 collaborators at the same institution2022: 2 collaborators at the same institution2023: 5 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 1 collaborator at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)×8
  • Technology Mind and Behavior×4
  • PLoS ONE×3
  • Journal of Learning Analytics×2
  • Open MIND×2
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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