Upcoming events
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KAI: Harnessing AI to Improve Learning Outcomes for Students with Disabilities
Join this hybrid session to learn about the impact of KAI, an AI-based tool, on reading comprehension among middle and high school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Partnerships as Pathways
Join the Accelerator Studio for this panel and small group discussion exploring how to build strong partnerships.
Past events
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Accelerate Edtech Impact Summit 2025
This year's Accelerate Edtech Impact Summit centered around the theme, "Future-Ready Learning by Design."
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Student and Alumni Demo Day
Join us for the Accelerate Edtech Impact Demo Day. Student and recent alumni innovators will deliver project pitches to a panel of judges, which includes edtech industry leaders, investors, researchers, and educators.
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AI Tinkery Workshop: Okay, So What IS the Scope of Environmental Impacts of AI?
Curious about the environmental footprint of artificial intelligence? Join the AI Tinkery for a hands-on exploration of this question.
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Scaling Sustainably from Academia
Join this workshop from the Accelerator Studio to hear from panelists who have successfully scaled academic innovations, participate in Q&A focused on academia-specific challenges, and connect with peers in small-group discussions.
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Screens in Balance: Beyond the Cell Phone Debate
A brown-bag lunch where students and faculty can hear from Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), during his stay at the Accelerator as a visiting scholar.
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AI Tinkery Fall Kickoff Boot Camp
This two-day, student-only event welcomes incoming and current Stanford students into the new academic year with a hands-on workshop series and hackathon to build confidence and curiosity around generative AI.
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AI Tinkery + Playlab Working Group: DIY Chatbots
Join the AI Tinkery for a three-part, remote, hands-on workshop series working with custom Playlab chatbots.
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Designing Family Partnerships That Stick in 2025
This webinar, organized by the SCALE Initiative's National Student Support Accelerator, invites participants to reimagine school-family partnerships in the context of high-impact tutoring.
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Tinker Time: Explore “learning” features in LLMs
The Stanford community is invited to get hands-on exposure to newly released “learning mode” features in tools like ChatGPT and Claude, and provide feedback on their value and risks in educational settings.
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Practitioner Voices: Language Technologies in Math Education
Accelerator Faculty Affiliate Dora Demszky's EduNLP lab brings practitioners together to help shape the future of language technologies in math education.
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Designing Tutoring That Works: A Step-by-Step Tour for School Districts
This virtual session hosted by the National Student Support Accelerator will guide district leaders through the new District Playbook for High-Impact Tutoring, highlight tools for decision-making and implementation, and showcase examples from real districts.
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Boba Tea and Bold Ideas: Education Entrepreneurship Unfiltered
The Education Entrepreneurship Hub hosts a bi-monthly event series with a chance for students to learn and connect over boba. This month, join us for an evening with Adam Williams, founder of the AI-based software development company Magic Loops.
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Passing the Torch: Intergenerational Conversations with Bob Hoover on Organizing for Education
Join us this Memorial Day for an evening of intergenerational conversation with Bob Hoover—veteran, educator, and longtime East Palo Alto community leader.
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Listening to Learn: Better Research Questions through Collaborative Partnerships
Join the Accelerator Studio for a virtual workshop on building research partnerships as a seed grantee.
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Keeping up with Emerging Technologies — AI Agents Workshop
Join us for a workshop exploring the future of multi-agent collaboration and agentic workflows for learning. No prior AI experience required. Bring your laptops and your curiosity!
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National Student Support Accelerator 2025 Conference
The NSSA's annual invitation-only conference will gather education leaders around the goal of uniting research and decision-making in order to successfully scale high-impact tutoring.
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Product Manager of One: Using AI to Accelerate Prototypes
This hands-on virtual workshop from the Accelerator Studio aims to help education researchers, faculty, and grantees explore how AI tools can accelerate the early stages of translating research insights into working prototypes or tools.
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Building Strong Foundations in Education: Lessons from India
Rukmini Banerji, CEO at Pratham Education Foundation, will speak about the interventions Pratham employs to address gaps in India's education system and equip students with essential skills for their futures.
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Education Entrepreneurship Hub Bus Tour
The Education Entrepreneurship Hub Bus Tour will provide 50 undergraduate and graduate students with direct exposure to leading edtech companies, investors, and innovative schools.
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ASU+GSV 2025
Join nine speakers from the Stanford Accelerator for Learning in San Diego this year.
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Learnings from My Seed Grant Journey
Join the Accelerator Studio for a virtual community conversation about what some of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning's seed grantees have learned in their journeys thus far.
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Fostering Continued Education for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The second event in the Critical Issues in Learning Differences speaker series.
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SXSW EDU 2025
Five Stanford Accelerator for Learning faculty, staff, and leadership will be sharing expertise in Austin this year.
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AI+Education Summit 2025
Human-Centered AI for a Thriving Learning Ecosystem
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Leveraging AI to Fundamentally Enrich Students’ Learning and Experiences
A chance for students and faculty to hear from Keith Krueger, CEO of Consortium for School Networking, during his stay at the Accelerator as a visiting scholar.
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State of GenAI in K-12: From Readiness to Maturity
A chance for students and faculty to hear from Keith Krueger, CEO of Consortium for School Networking, during his stay at the Accelerator as a visiting scholar.
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Learning Design Challenge Info Session
Stanford students with ideas for edtech solutions are invited to attend the info session to submit a pitch for the Learning Design Challenge.
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A Seat at the Table: Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence Series
The Equity in Learning initiative and the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) host a small group dinner for teacher candidates with practitioner-in-residence Robert Hoover.
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Keeping up with Emerging Technologies
Building a mental model of the AI landscape and exploring its possibilities for education.
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AI + Learning Differences Hackathon
This one-day hackathon was dedicated to transforming education for learners with disabilities through the power of AI.
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AI + Learning Differences Working Symposium
New Horizons, New Solutions
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Info Sessions: Joyful Learning Seed Grant
The Stanford Accelerator for Learning invites proposals for research or design projects that explore the mechanisms and impact of joyful learning.
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Accelerate Edtech Impact Summit 2024
New Horizons for Efficacy and Impact
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Supporting Literacy for Learners with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Practical, Research-Based Strategies
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Distinguished Lecture: Critical Issues in Learning Differences
Join the Learning Differences Initiative to hear from nationally renowned scholars and advance a transformative vision for inclusive education.
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Education Entrepreneurship Hub Launch
Stanford students are invited to celebrate education innovation and learn more about how the Hub can support their entrepreneurial endeavors.
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Info Sessions: Learning through Creation with Generative AI Seed Grant
The Stanford Accelerator for Learning and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence invite research proposals advancing learning through creation with Generative AI.
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Info Sessions: People Who Help Other People Learn (PWHOPL) Seed Grant
The Stanford Accelerator for Learning seeks to fund research that fosters new understandings of how to use technology for rapid capability development to support PWHOPL.
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Fireside Chat with Neeru Khosla
Khosla is the founder and executive director of CK-12 Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to high-quality educational materials for K-12 students all over the world.
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From Learning to Launch: The Entrepreneurial Pipeline
Join us for the next session of the discussion series with the Stanford Graduate School of Education's Entrepreneurs in Residence.
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High-Impact Tutoring: Supporting Students Now and For the Long Run
The annual conference of the National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA) is an invitation-only gathering of district, state, and higher education leaders, researchers, tutoring providers, and funders.
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The Unfinished Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education at 70
Charting a path forward on school integration and educational opportunity.
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Advances in Early Math Education: Critical Issues in Policy and Practice
A free one-day conference hosted by DREME and the Stanford Center on Early Childhood celebrating the progress made in the last decade in research and practice related to early math learning.
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Learning Differences Lecture: Multimodal Technologies, Participatory Learning Ecologies, and Disrupting Inequities by and through Design
Gabriela Richard, PhD, is a researcher, designer, and expert in learning technologies, media, games, and play.
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ASU+GSV 2024
Join leaders and scholars from the Stanford Accelerator for Learning in San Diego this year.
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Film Screening of “Building Tomorrows: The Story of Sobral”
The story of how a rural municipality in Brazil achieved near-universal literacy.
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State of the Industry Panel: AI and AR, Supercharged
This panel discussion will share the latest trends of generative AI integration with augmented reality technology, supercharging the future of learning.
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Learning Differences Lecture: Shifting the Paradigm for Supporting Students with Disabilities
Kristin Wright, Executive Director of Equity, Diversity, Early Intervention, and Support Services at the Sacramento County Office of Education, will share how we can move from legal adherence to a holistic, empowering model.
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SXSW EDU 2024
Four Stanford Accelerator for Learning leaders will be sharing expertise in Austin this year.
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Designing Your Own Chatbot to Support Teaching and Learning
Join this Accelerator Studio workshop to gain hands-on experience building a chatbot tailored to your interests and needs.
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Learning Differences Distinguished Lecture: Biocultural Myths About Poverty
Professor Lennard J. Davis of the University of Illinois at Chicago will share about his forthcoming book as part of a series exploring critical issues related to the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in our education system.
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Entrepreneur in Residence Discussion Series: Leadership Insights Across the Education Spectrum
In this session, we’ll hear from leaders across the education spectrum discuss the opportunities and challenges they faced when enacting change.
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AI + Education Summit: Advancing Human Learning with AI Technologies
Building on the success of its first edition in 2023, this in-person summit was hosted again by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and the Stanford Accelerator for Learning.
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Early Childhood and Social Entrepreneurship in South Africa: A Conversation with Sonja Giese
Join the Stanford Center on Early Childhood for an informal conversation and Q&A.
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Charting the Geographies of Inclusive Education: Toward Sustainable Research Partnerships — A Research Conference in Honor of Judith Heumann
The convening brought together scholars from the Global South who are working on advancing inclusive education.
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Early Childhood and Community Initiatives in New Zealand: A Conversation with Aimee Hadrup
Join the Stanford Center on Early Childhood for an informal conversation and Q&A.
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Digital Learning Design Challenge Info Session
The Learning Design Challenge, taking place in the winter and spring quarters, invites students to bring their creativity and innovation to help solve pressing real-world challenges faced by learners.
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Enhancing Reflective Practices with AI
This Accelerator Studio workshop explored how AI can augment the way we grow and learn.
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VR as the Face of Generative AI
A workshop series for undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students and postdocs: Design and build learning experiences integrating Large Language Models and Virtual Reality open-source applications
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Info Session: Transformative Approaches to Ethnic Studies Seed Grant
The Stanford Accelerator for Learning seeks to fund exploratory projects, developing partnerships, and preliminary scholarship that are poised to make substantial impacts on how ethnic studies is taught and integrated into K-12 schooling across California.
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Accelerate Edtech Impact Summit
How can educational technology better leverage learning science? This half-day summit draws together leaders in research, education, and technology to discuss, learn, and advance equitable and effective solutions.
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Exploring Forms of Feedback with AI
In today's digital learning environment, feedback is pivotal to growth and improvement. But how can we harness the immense capabilities of generative AI tools like ChatGPT to provide optimal feedback?
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Future of Immersive Experiences Industry Panel
Panelists will share insights about the integration of AI and VR and the future of immersive experiences.
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Entrepreneur in Residence Discussion Series: AI in Edtech, Part 2
The EIRs continue the conversation on AI’s impact on education nearly a year after the generative AI boom.
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Fireside Chat with Steve Youngwood
Join us for a lively discussion with the CEO of Sesame Workshop about their recent work in child wellbeing, inclusion, and refugee education.
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Beyond Chatbots: Exploring Different Ways Generative AI can Look and Function
This Accelerator Studio workshop highlighted practical use cases and tools to enhance project management, text summarization, and accessibility.
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Entrepreneur in Residence Discussion Series: AI in Edtech, Part 1
Current and former Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIRs) delve into the challenges, opportunities, and implications of AI in edtech.
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Leveraging Generative AI Tools to Support Teaching and Learning
The Accelerator Studio workshop introduced ways to think about generative AI in education contexts.
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Equity in Learning Design Workshop
The Equity in Learning Initiative of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning seeks to leverage decades of educational scholarship in race, inequality, and language in pursuit of more effective and equitable learning solutions.
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Cubberley Lecture Series presents: An Evening with Juliana Urtubey
How can we support students to flourish and succeed? How do we encourage a love of learning and cultivate students’ passions?
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AI+Education Summit: AI in the Service of Teaching and Learning
A daylong summit on how AI can be used to advance human learning through new pedagogies, new modalities of assessment, new foundational models, and more.
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Understanding Learning Differences in Context: What We Are Learning
The Learning Differences and Future of Special Education Initiative invites you to hear from researchers about their latest projects. Join online or in person on Nov. 14.
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Bay Area Superintendents Quarterly Convening with Sean Reardon
This meeting on Nov. 10 is one of a series of events that brings together public school district superintendents from San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties to share best practices and learn new approaches.
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New Pathways for Equity and Impact in Early Childhood
The Stanford Center on Early Childhood celebrated its launch with a convening of leaders in the field.
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Energizing the Potential of All Learners: Summit with the Yidan Prize Foundation
The 2022 Stanford Accelerator for Learning summit was an opportunity to strengthen partnerships and expand connections with education thought-leaders from around the world.
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2022 LDT Expo
See the exhibition of master’s projects created by students in the Learning, Design, & Technology Master’s Program in the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
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Stanford Graduate School of Education Cubberley Lecture Series Presents: An Evening With Geoffrey Canada
Join us for an evening of inspiration and conversation with education visionaries who think deeply about the important questions surrounding early childhood learning.
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Leveraging Social Media Approaches to Capture, Share, and Inspire Pedagogical Innovations
The Stanford Accelerator for Learning's new teacher engagement pilot connects invited teachers from across content areas and grade levels to collaborate with university faculty, researchers, and students who are committed to engaging with schools in deep and substantive ways.
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Digital Learning Initiative Morning Mix
The morning mix is a place for the DLI community to come together, discuss issues around the research that is trying to be done, get feedback and find pathways forward for all of the projects.
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CANCELLED: Using AI to Augment and Improve the Learning Experience
The Stanford Transforming Learning Accelerator presents the Spring Lightning Talk Series. This series consists of two conversations on cutting edge research. Each session will examine research methods, breakthroughs, and opportunities to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges facing learners.
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Bay Area Superintendents Convening – Session 2
This event brings San Mateo and Santa Clara county public school district superintendents together to share best practices and learn new approaches together.
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Science and Policy for Lifelong Learning
The Stanford Transforming Learning Accelerator presents the Spring Lightning Talk Series. This series consists of two conversations on cutting edge research. Each session will examine research methods, breakthroughs, and opportunities to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges facing learners.
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Achievement Unlocked: A Student-centered Approach to Promoting Motivation and Wellbeing
The Transforming Learning Accelerator's new teacher engagement pilot connects invited teachers from across content areas and grade levels to collaborate with university faculty, researchers, and students who are committed to engaging with schools in deep and substantive ways.
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Bay Area Superintendents Convening
This event brings San Mateo and Santa Clara county public school district superintendents together to share best practices and learn new approaches together.
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Implementing Comprehensive, Emergent Literacy Instruction for Neurodiverse Students with General Education Classrooms
The Stanford Transforming Learning Accelerator presents the Winter Lightning Talk Series. The series consists of three conversations that will focus on cutting edge research. Each session will examine research methods, breakthroughs, and opportunities to create new ways forward.
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Personalized Trajectories of Learning and Exploration: “Shaping” Life with Screenomics and Other Observational Paradigms
The Stanford Transforming Learning Accelerator presents the Winter Lightning Talk Series. The series consists of three conversations that will focus on cutting edge research. Each session will examine research methods, breakthroughs, and opportunities to create new ways forward.
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Starting with Sesame: Investigating Teaching and Learning in Early Childhood
The Stanford Transforming Learning Accelerator presents the Winter Lightning Talk Series. The series consists of three conversations that will focus on cutting edge research. Each session will examine research methods, breakthroughs, and opportunities to create new ways forward.
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Forum: Building an Applied Science to Support Working Learners
Hear and discuss highlights of a report to the National Science Foundation from 180 education leaders charged with developing a comprehensive research agenda.
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Teaching and Learning in the Metaverse
In this rapid fire session, Professor Jeremy Bailenson will discuss how virtual reality is being used for teaching and respond to your questions about research methods, breakthroughs, and opportunities.
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10th Annual Entrepreneurial Campus Demo Day
If you want inspiration to start your own company, get involved with a fast-growing startup or build your network in the Stanford entrepreneurship ecosystem, come learn from the best. Masks will be required and space is limited.
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Building an applied science to support working learners
With momentum gaining for pandemic recovery and to seriously combat inequality in America, this is a crucial time for the nation to invest in applied science to understand how best to provide opportunities for the millions of American adults seeking to improve their lives through learning. This session is the fourth of four in this series.
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Building an applied science to support working learners
With momentum gaining for pandemic recovery and to seriously combat inequality in America, this is a crucial time for the nation to invest in applied science to understand how best to provide opportunities for the millions of American adults seeking to improve their lives through learning. This session is the third of four in this series.
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How might applied research serve working learners?
This is the second meeting in a series of weekly two-hour sessions on four consecutive Wednesdays in July that convenes researchers, practitioners, workforce advocates, and business leaders to frame a national agenda for an applied science to improve opportunities for working learners. The series is by invitation.
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Seed grant information session #2: Understanding learning differences in context
This information session will provide an overview of the project and answer questions from prospective applicants
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Working collaboratively to serve working learners
This is the first event in a series of weekly two-hour sessions on four consecutive Wednesdays in July that convenes fellow researchers, practitioners, workforce advocates, and business leaders to frame a national agenda for an applied science to improve opportunities for working learners.
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Seed grant information session #1: Understanding learning differences in context
This information session will provide an overview of the project and answer questions from prospective applicants.
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Transforming Learning Accelerator 2021 Spring Summit
This free, online summit brings together researchers from across the university who work to improve learning.
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2021 Spring Summit
How data, technology, and brain sciences are advancing learning.