Learning Sciences Certification

Help educators use the learning sciences to make learning more effective, efficient and inclusive.

The Learning Sciences (LS) as a field has been growing over the past 30+ years. LS is still new to UNT, first launching in the Fall of 2023. Our LS community in the College of Education is both similar and unique from the broader field. Like the broader field, we are dedicated to understanding how sociocultural systems impact learning and designing innovative and transformative opportunities for learning through collaborative partnerships.

Students may focus on many issues surrounding learning including analysis of:

• Learning across scales
  • particular learning moments
  • collaborative learning sequences over time
  • learning systems including learners embedded within classrooms embedded within schools embedded within districts and states
• Design and implementation of learning environments
  • design and implementation of learning reforms
  • STEM learning and education
  • participatory designs, including Research-Practice Partnerships, Social Design Experiments, Community-Based Design, Family Co-Observation Partnerships
• Research collaborations with
  • young children (ages 2-8)
  • youth (ages 12-18)
  • families (children and caregivers)
  • teachers (elementary, middle, high school)
  • district- and state-level administration and support for teaching
  • out-of-school learning spaces (e.g., museums)

Finally, as part of the broader Hispanic-Serving and Minority-Serving Institution at UNT, our program is positioned particularly well to serve the needs of these communities both in supporting doctoral students to develop their research expertise and in serving the learners within these communities across the DFW area and beyond.