Sociocultural Contexts
Examining the social, organizational and cultural dynamics of learning and teaching situations, including classrooms, schools, school districts, museums, corporations and homes.
The Joint PhD Program in Computer Science and Learning Sciences builds on enduring and growing connections between research on learning and computation. Rapid technological advances continue to create new and exciting ways to both understand and support learning in all settings and in all stages of life. This program is intended for students with an interest in both fields who would otherwise be forced to choose one area or the other.
Examining the social, organizational and cultural dynamics of learning and teaching situations, including classrooms, schools, school districts, museums, corporations and homes.
Constructing scientific models of the structures and processes of learning and teaching by which organized knowledge, skills and understanding are acquired.
Building environments for learning and teaching, incorporating multimedia, artificial intelligence, computer networks and innovative curriculum and classroom activity structures.
Course work in the Learning Sciences and Computer Science doctoral program includes a core curriculum and electives.
Developing the next generation of leaders at the intersection of computer science and learning sciences.
“Computer science is a tool in both education and science classrooms. You can apply it to whatever you’re interested in and that was the intersection I was looking for. It also requires us to question and reimagine the ways we teach computation– to connect it to students’ lives, rather than casting it as something that ‘other people’ do.”
Phone Number:
847-491-4329
Email:
m-redfearn@northwestern.edu
Physical Address:
Walter Annenberg Hall
2120 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208