Learning Sciences
Researchers at the iSchool involved in the learning sciences advance knowledge of the learning process and the design of innovative learning environments and technologies.
Through an interdisciplinary connection between human-computer interaction, education, and library and information sciences, our work focuses on how technologies shape, and are being shaped, by learning and collaboration in a variety of real-world settings, such as classrooms, libraries and museums, peer and family contexts, and online communities.
Researchers
Current Projects and Grants
Justice-Focused Secondary CS Teacher Education
PI: Amy Ko
Funding: National Science Foundation, $999,723
Dates: 2020-2023
Misinformation Escape Room
PIs: Chris Coward, Jin Ha Lee
Funding: CIP Innovation Fund, $24,737
Dates: 2020-2022
Skill It Up at University of South Carolina
PI: Bob Boiko
Funding: University of South Carolina, $3,000
Dates: 2020-2021
Standards Database
PI: Amy Ko
Funding: Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, $13,002
Dates: 2020
Supporting Intergenerational Participatory Design Groups for Librarians and Youth for Design Thinking Around Digital Learning
PI: Jason Yip
Funding: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), $353,070
Dates: 2018-2021
Children’s Museum Research Network
PI: Jessica Luke
Funding: Association of Children's Museums, $6,500
Dates: 2018-2019
Automatically Synthesizing Valid, Personalized, Formative Assessments of CS1 Concepts
PI: Amy Ko
Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF), $604,027
Dates: 2017-2021