The Learning, Design & Technology Program 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.
The Master's Project is an opportunity for LDT students to further develop and apply their learning. Through a learner-centered design process, students identify learning problems and apply appropriate theories about learning to create educationally informed and empirically grounded learning environments, products, and programs that effectively employ emergent technologies in variety of settings.
Several countries around the world face challenges with rising high school dropout rates. Just in Brazil, only 56% of high schoolers graduate at the age of 19. One of the root causes behind this...
Today, millions of people are turning to technology to learn a foreign language; however, they often can’t transfer what they’ve learned in apps like Duolingo to real-world situations. Language...
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is critical for student success. We created PetMe, a tablet game for children ages 6-8, to provide much-needed instructional materials for schools. In this two...
Dan Schwartz
Professor of Education
"One of the great joys of the LDT program is the sheer diversity of experiences and interests that LDT students bring to classes and conversations. Some students come to build on their experience in various segments of industry, medicine, and education, whereas other students just come because they want to find out if there is a career trajectory that involves using technology to help people".
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