Learning Sciences and Online Learning Symposium
The Learning Sciences and Online Learning Symposium (LSOL) was convened by MIT on May 21-22, 2015 with support from the National Science Foundation. The symposium brought together faculty and researchers from across the United States and at MIT to discuss the intersection between the Learning Sciences and Online Learning. We produced a symposium report that we hoped would inform digital / online learning activities at participants’ institutions and that would also influence development policy, practice and scholarship in an area that is becoming central to the discourse on educational change.
The symposium focused on three themes:
- Threshold and difficult to learn concepts, as well as common misconceptions, that online and digital environments can address
- Unique and different opportunities that are afforded in online and digital environments
- Community and community interaction in online and digital learning experiences
For LSOL, I co-chaired the symposium including program and logistics.