The LIFE Science of Learning Center seeks to understand and advance human learning through a simultaneous focus on implicit, informal and formal learning, thus cultivating generalizable interdisciplinary theories that can guide the design of effective new technologies and learning environments.
LIFE's Mission is three fold:
Science of Learning Research. To identify and investigate research questions about human learning that draw on neurobiological, cognitive, developmental and socio-cultural theories and their related methodologies to advance knowledge of learning, including its supportive contexts and transformative technologies. A central tenet of the LIFE Center is the belief that productive conceptual collisions across disciplinary boundaries will yield robust and tested theories on the adaptive and efficient nature of learning in our fast changing, technology-rich world.
Collaborative Partnerships. To develop a model of collaboration within the LIFE Center that nurtures and productively manages the intellectual tensions of interdisciplinary research, and establishes research and education partnerships beyond the Center that facilitate two-way exchanges on LIFE's work.
Capacity Building in the Learning Sciences. To actively pursue, in close collaboration with affiliated partners, education activities and uses of new technologies for research, education and dissemination that will increase the capacity of the field to further develop an integrative learning sciences, research and implementation agenda.
LIFE's NSF Proposal:
Read more about the mission of the LIFE center by reviewing the original grant proposal, as available here in PDF format.
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