Research Training Opportunities

SEERNet team is proud to support training programs that empower emerging learning scientists, quantitative and mixed methods researchers, and other emerging scholars who seek to master their understanding of and use of data to improve the field of education for all learners.

IES-funded:

• Data Science Methods for Digital Learning Platforms: Prepare to become an education researcher capable of leveraging large-scale data using data science methods, improving education quality with digital learning platforms. Priority Application Deadline: May 16, 2025 

• Innovative Science for Data Analytics (ISEA): A Data Training Program to Advance Educational Research and Practice.

Other opportunities:

• LASER Institute: LASER’s summer workshop

• PennX: Big Data and Education | edX Big Data and Education (edX MOOC)

• Big Data and Education: The videos from PennX: Big Data and Education | edX MOOC are available on YouTube

• LearnLab Summer School: The Simon Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University 

• The Society for Learning Analytics Research’s  Learning Analytics Summer Institutes:
  –Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI)
  –LASI-locals – Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR)

• Learning Analytics M.S.Ed. (Online) | Penn GSE: A master’s in learning analytics (fully online) at Penn GSE