A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund a joint Purdue University-University of Illinois study to improve online learning environments by including instructional gestures and cueing known to help students conceptualize abstract concepts. The joint Purdue University-U of I study co-led by Jason Morphew focuses on improving online learning environments by including instructional gestures and cueing known to help students conceptualize abstract concepts. The NSF’s EDU Core Research (ECR:Core) program is supporting the three-year project entitled Collaborative Research: Understanding Cueing Gesture within Video Learning Environments for Statistics Education, which will run from September of 2024 to August of 2027. Led by Purdue School of Engineering Education Assistant Professor Jason Morphew, Ph.D., and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Professor of Educational Psychology and Curriculum & Instruction Robb Lindgren, Ph.D., the project will focus on the online teaching of mathematical literacy and statistical reasoning to college-level and K-12 students, but the results are anticipated to have wide-ranging applications.