How the Learning Sciences play out in our work, our learning and our analyzing learning as well as having an impact on the world are topics that some of the country's top learning scientists broached at the recent Penn State College of Education Waterbury Summit.
Read about the many ways in which the College of Education is furthering the field of the learning sciences, in the "2017 Report on the Learning Sciences," available online via issuu.com, with individual stories posted to the Penn State News website.
Members of Penn State’s College of Education, in their quest to advance the learning sciences project, are learning how to learn about learning, and they want colleagues at other institutions — domestic and worldwide — to learn about the process by which that is occurring.
Penn State is attempting to make its mark on what could be a signature program in the College of Education in which dual-title degrees are conferred upon its graduate students.
Scott McDonald, associate professor of science education and director of the Krause Innovation Studio in the Penn State College of Education, has been named convener of the college's Learning Sciences Initiative.
In his message in the "2017 Report on the Learning Sciences," College of Education Dean David H. Monk said there is much work going on in the classroom and through research directly related to the learning sciences.
Groundbreaking research by Gabriela Richard, an assistant professor of learning, design and technology in the College of Education, looks at the intersection of gender and race in the gaming world and how that affects the ways users learn.
Marcela Borge is part of groundbreaking research about the usefulness of online communities within learning programs.
Penn State's College of Education is part of a high-profile, learning sciences project known as Advancing Coherent and Equitable Systems of Science Education (ACESSE) that could be the impetus behind driving national change about how K-12 students learn science.
Professor of Educational Psychology Bonnie J.F. Meyer has dedicated her 44-year career to helping students improve their reading comprehension skills.
Having already seen success in language arts classrooms, researchers are now applying the Quality Talk approach to high school physics and chemistry classrooms.
In collaboration with a faculty member in the College of Arts and Architecture, Jessica Briskin and Gary Chinn explored the importance of educational design in online arts-based courses.
Ty Hollett, assistant professor of learning, design and technology, believes that learning takes place in all settings, including informal ones.
Associate Professor Mary Catherine Scheeler spends sabbatical speaking with individuals — some human and some not — about making special education teacher preparation more effective.
Penn State's College of Education will welcome one of the leading scholars in the field of learning sciences as the next guest lecturer in this spring's Waterbury Lecture Series. Allan Collins is scheduled to deliver the lecture "Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology" at 11:30 a.m. on April 19, in room 113 of the IST Building on Penn State's University Park campus.
