Profile of a Desired Candidate

Being an interdisciplinary field, the learning sciences borrows concepts and methods from the physical, biological and social sciences, and engineering domains. In addition, core disciplinary expertise is important for researching teaching and learning in disciplines such as science and engineering.

Therefore, this doctoral program will train dual-discipline learning scientists; we seek candidates who have studied a core discipline at the masters’ level (e.g., physics, chemistry, computer science, electrical engineering, psychology) and train them in the learning sciences. This program seeks to leverage their expertise in the core discipline for their research and training in the learning sciences and enable them to research the learning issues in their core disciplines.

We seek candidates who have a masters’ degree in any discipline with a strong motivation to work in and change the field of education.