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Welcome to Stanford University’s Learning Design Challenge!
Stanford University is known for its flourishing entrepreneurial ecosystem, while the Graduate School of Education and Stanford Accelerator for Learning are recognized for their deep focus on inclusion and accessibility. These core commitments come together in the Learning Design Challenge, where teams of students from across campus develop inclusive and accessible learning solutions through innovation and entrepreneurship.
What is the Learning Design Challenge?
Here about the experience from student participants.
So how does it work?
The Learning Design Challenge begins with a series of for-credit EdTech courses and mentoring sessions, along with opportunities to pitch your project for over $10,000 in award funding. |
Who can participate?
We encourage Stanford students from across campus to participate in the Learning Design Challenge. Non-Stanford students can join as long as one team member is a current Stanford student. |
How do I get started?
You can start by signing up for Learning Design Workshop, EDUC 254 A&B, in Axess. |
Why Participate in the Learning Design Challenge?
Learn, build, and network in a front-to-back program.
Bring an existing idea or develop a new idea. Bring a team or build a team. Some join the Learning Design Challenge with a project and team in place. Others with a problem they'd like to solve. Others come to investigate new ways to use design and technology to promote human development. In this video, learn about WeStride, which started as a class project pitched by Chawin Asavasaetakul and Gabby Tan, and has developed into a rapidly growing Southeast Asian EdTech company.
Our for-credit courses are designed to build your skills and develop your networks, like this 2-hour workshop with the AI in education team from Khan Academy. Workshops focus on human-centered design, the learning sciences, AI in education, game design, team building, fundraising, inclusion, and technical implementation, along with how to sustain your project as a for-profit start-up, non-profit start-up, social enterprise, and/or academic research project.
The Learning Design Challenge, Stanford Accelerator for Learning, and collaborators like StartX provide students with opportunities to earn design awards and scholarships as they work through processes of ideation, prototyping, design sprints, and project development. In Winter Quarter, students pitch for the program’s $1,500 Prototyping Awards and in Spring Quarter our $9,000 Research-to-Practice Awards. Students work with StartX and apply for the Student-in-Residence (SIR) scholarship.
The Learning Design Challenge is part of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning. Housed at the Graduate School of Education, the Stanford Accelerator for Learning is an interdisciplinary hub where researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, and others collaborate on novel learning solutions. In the Learning Design Challenge, you will be connected to a thriving community of innovators, where you will meet for-profit and non-profit startups, social enterprises, academic researchers, and more.
Experts & Mentors
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