Academic Programs

SCIL contributes to training 21st century professionals in the learning sciences and technology fields by deeply engaging faculty and students in two important Stanford graduate programs:

• The PhD Program in Learning Sciences and Technology Design (LSTD), a new program dedicated to the systematic study and design of psychological, social, and technological processes that support learning in diverse contexts and across the lifespan, including educational settings

• The Learning, Design and Technology (LDT) Master's Program, established in 1997, which prepares professionals to design and evaluate educationally informed and empirically grounded learning environments, products, and programs that effectively employ emergent technologies in a variety of settings.

Other graduate programs directly relevant to our work are:

• Symbolic Systems Program (BS, MS,): an interdisciplinary program that combines Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, and Philosophy. The study of Symbolic Systems attacks questions about the relation between mind and the world, questions like following: What is information? What is intelligence? How are they related? Is intelligence more than processing? Does intelligence require a mind?

• Human-Computer Interaction Program (Professor Terry Winograd, Director): a broad-based PhD program and interdisciplinary coordinating “hub” for faculty research and interests and graduate training in human-computer interaction research.