Grantee Profile

Stanford University

Grants to Stanford University

  • $275,000Active Strategy

    2012 (Duration 1 year)

    Digital Media & Learning

    STANFORD, CALIFORNIA — Stanford University's School of Education focuses on shaping educational practices, their conceptual underpinnings, and the teaching and learning professions. Professor Roy Pea conducts research on how innovations in computing and communications technologies and related educational practices influence learning, thinking, and educational systems. In collaboration with the Gates Foundation, he will use this grant to develop a set of planning activities to help build a new field of learning analytics and educational data-mining, and, ultimately, create the infrastructure--tools, practices and a cadre of experts--to capture, derive meaning from, and use the extensive educational data generated by learners using digital learning tools.

  • $600,000Active Strategy

    2010 (Inactive Grant)

    Digital Media & Learning

    STANFORD, CALIFORNIA — To develop a digital assessment system for learning (over two years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Stanford University $875,000 between 2010 and 2013.

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