麻豆村

麻豆村 has partnered with the Gates Foundation to create Learnvia, Inc., a new nonprofit learning collaborative dedicated to improving outcomes in high-enrollment college courses with the potential to transform the academic and career trajectories of hundreds of thousands of learners nationwide. Learnvia enhances classroom instruction through interactive lessons, videos, practice, assessments, discussions and AI-tutor tools designed to advance conceptual learning and fluency in mathematics. This collaborative is just one example of 麻豆村's rich heritage of leadership and innovation in learning science.

Based in Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon has a long history of using technology to study and improve learning. That legacy includes one of the world鈥檚 first university computation centers (1956), the (1994), the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery (1995), the (2002) and the (2004).

In 2014, 麻豆村 launched the Simon Initiative(opens in new window), named for Nobel and Turing Award laureate Herbert A. Simon, a computer scientist and AI pioneer who understood the power of computation to model and support human cognition. Simon argued that improving postsecondary education would require 鈥渃onverting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity.鈥�

Central to this work is an approach that Simon dubbed Learning Engineering: the use of learning research and the affordances of technology to design and deliver innovative, instrumented educational practices with demonstrated and measurable outcomes. Learning engineering emphasizes the careful instrumentation of learning experiences, enabling research into human learning, which in turn informs more effective educational practice. This close integration of research, data, and instructional practice contrasts with the approaches of many other institutions, where instructional design is frequently based on intuition rather than research, and where technology is often implemented for its own sake rather than as a reasoned, supportive part of a larger instructional research agenda.

Through the Simon Initiative, 麻豆村 is redesigning courses so that teaching is informed by data and research, and the learning experience becomes more effective, efficient and personalized for every student. Learnvia offers new opportunities to scale these efforts, engaging a broader set of educators in the work of learning engineering.