WPI’s Learning Sciences & Technologies Master's and Ph.D. program gives students and their teachers in K-12 schools the tools and techniques to make STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and English teaching more effective.

Our world-renowned faculty work collaboratively with WPI students to use a scientific and social approach that blends technology, psychology, cognition, and education practices to reach K-12 students in real classrooms and have them think about subjects in a new way. Our research identifies techniques that measure and reflect individual learning styles and help us understand how students learn, given various social, emotional, cultural, and scientific influences.

The revolution we seek is global—elevating U.S. students’ competitive edge in a connected world. Getting there requires applying what we understand about learning to transform the current U.S. educational system, classroom by classroom.

Programmatic courses we recommend for the 2019-2020 academic year:

• Fall, 2019:
  • SS 590 Causal Inference on Wednesday 4-6:50 (Kooken) see syllabus here
  • CS 566 / SEME 566 Graphical Models Thursdays 6-8:50 (Beck) 
  • CS 525 Des & Anal Lg Online Exp Wednesdays 6-8:50 (Harrison)
• Spring, 2020:
  • CS565 User Modeling Tuesday / Thursday 4-5:20 (Heffernan)
  • CS541 Deep Learning Monday / Wednesday 4-5:20 (Whitehill)
  • CS546 Human-Computer Interaction Tuesday / Friday 1-2:50 (Smith) 
  • PSY 501 Foundations of the Learning Sciences Mondays 4-6:50 (Ottmar)
  • PSY 590 ST: Path Analysis E&L Modeling Wednesdays 5:30 - 8:20 (Kooken)