About the Symposium

Online learning is becoming central to educational transformation efforts at institutions around the world. The increasing interest and engagement in digital and online learning suggest an urgency to examine the intersection of learning sciences/education research with digital learning practice. Symposium participants will discuss how online learning might help meet the persistent challenges that discipline-based educational researchers have identified in teaching within their disciplines with a focus on the following 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

The Learning Sciences and Online Learning Symposium is hosted by the MIT Office of Digital Learning.

The Learning Sciences and Online Learning Symposium is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-1439272. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.