Our Approach
Our Approach
Creating incentives and opportunities to spur faculty innovation while promoting research and resources that support student success.
Our Approach
Creating incentives and opportunities to spur faculty innovation while promoting research and resources that support student success.
Learning Lab’s unique value is to be a testing ground for faculty innovation, foster faculty collaboration across the three segments of public higher education, generate free and low-cost resources from its funded projects, and bridge educational research and practice for the benefit of all students.
Learning Lab works across the following five areas to create a virtuous cycle in public higher education that promotes a positive feedback loop between educational research and practice.
Innovation
Award grants to test and enhance innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
community
Foster collaboration across public higher education systems and build a learning network among faculty.
Theory and Research
Contribute to the science of human learning through funded projects and disseminate findings to faculty and other stakeholders.
educational practice
Collect and promote data-driven teaching and learning practices.
Educational policy
Leverage data and findings from Learning Lab projects to influence California educational policy.
We believe that faculty are our greatest resource in helping students meet their goals, and that innovation begins with them.
We believe that faculty are our greatest resource in helping students meet their goals, and that innovation begins with them.
Learning Lab seeks to change the way faculty think about teaching and learning to include a more experimental, dynamic, research driven agenda that encourages continuous iterative improvement so that students learn more deeply and equity gaps narrow.
Creating or facilitating a community-oriented culture where faculty value that experimentation, collaboration, and continuous improvement, and believe in the growth mindset of both students and faculty, has become one of our most important goals relative to how we believe we can meet our mission.
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