Through the Learning Design Challenge, the Stanford Accelerator for Learning provides Stanford students interested in education innovation with the knowledge, resources, connections, and support necessary to develop inclusive and accessible learning solutions.
The Learning Design Challenge gives students access to a series of workshops focusing on learning science, human-centered design, AI in education, team building, entrepreneurship, and technical implementation. These workshops are available through enrollment in a for-credit course series. Through these workshops, students develop impact-oriented projects, collaborate with fellow student edtech entrepreneurs, and build, prototype, and test digital learning tools and environments.
In the workshops, students can build upon an existing edtech project or develop a new one. They can bring a team or build a team. Participating teams work with expert mentors in the learning sciences, learning design, and entrepreneurship from the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford Accelerator for Learning, and Silicon Valley's edtech industry.
Projects started as part of the Learning Design Challenge have gone on to win multiple StartX Student-in-Residence Fellowships and Learning Engineering Tools Competition Awards, raise several hundreds of thousands of dollars in external funding, and go to scale as learning solutions across all 50 states and numerous countries around the world.
Course Credit
Students can enroll in:
- EDUC/ENGR 391: Engineering Education & Online Learning (Fall Quarter)
- EDUC 254: Digital Learning Design Workshop: Project Development (Winter Quarter)
- EDUC 254: Digital Learning Design Workshop: Design Sprints (Spring Quarter)
Pitch Opportunities
At the culmination of each quarter, teams pitch their project to faculty and industry experts for funding. Participating teams will have the chance to receive funding through the following opportunities:
- Winter quarter pitch event ($1,500 Prototyping Awards)
- Spring quarter pitch event ($9,000 Research-to-Practice Awards)
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