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Connected Learning Summit: Registration Now Open!
Join a gathering of innovators harnessing emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful and creative learning. The Connected Learning Summit will be a virtual event held from July 7th– July 30th. Please register here: https://2021.connectedlearningsummit.org/.
CLEVR publishes paper in Virtual Reality Journal
Cigdem Uz-Bilgin and Meredith Thompson of the CLEVR project have recently published a paper in the journal Virtual Reality. Processing presence: how users develop spatial presence through an immersive virtual reality game Cigdem Uz‑Bilgin1 · Meredith Thompson1 Received: 1 September 2020 / Accepted: 13 April 2021 © This is Read more
Teaching, Learning, Parenting and Gaming
Learn more about learning with games Do you have kids who are at home playing video games? Do you worry about it being “a waste of time”? Video games can actually lead to great learning. We are making a podcast Read more
Full STEAM Ahead
We are excited to announce Full STEAM Ahead – MIT’s new website welcoming kids, parents, educators and lifelong learners to explore resources from K-12 and beyond! Full STEAM Ahead is a website MIT has assembled to share science, technology, engineering, Read more
BioGraph Summer Course Enrollment
Are you looking for an interesting professional development to participate in that has consistently shown to increase students’ engagement and learning in biology? We want to invite you to join a free online course for science educators running in the Read more
MIT pSims Launch
The notion of complex systems is central to many of today’s most pressing societal challenges, from tackling climate change to developing new pharmaceutical drugs to understanding the spread of diseases. Yet these complex systems are often hard to understand as Read more
CLIx Recognized in 2019 Open Education Awards
The Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) was recognized by the Open Education Awards for Excellence as 2019 Winners of Resources, Tools, and Practices for Open Collaboration. See the Open Education Consortium Page for more information about the Open Collaboration award for Read more
Connected Learning Summit: Keynote Speakers Announced
Eve Ewing and Tracy Fullerton have been announced as the keynote speakers for the 2019 Connected Learning Summit. Ewing is a sociologist focused on social inequality in education. Fullerton is an experimental game designer, professor, and director of the USC Read more
Students develop mobile apps over Independent Activities Period – Part I
The MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program/The Education Arcade is typically bustling during January’s Independent Activities Period or “IAP” at MIT. It’s a month when students can spend time on campus without their usual semester courseload, and when our lab hires Read more
Call for Proposals: Connected Learning Summit 2019
The date and venue are set for the Second Annual Connected Learning Summit (CLS): October 3-5, 2019 at the University of California, Irvine. The conference location will alternate between UC Irvine and MIT, where the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program/The Read more