On June 17, the Aspen Institute Task Force on Learning and the Internet released its final report entitled Learner at the Center of a Networked World. After a year of...
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This is an archive of resources related to connected learning that was developed as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative and the Connected Learning Alliance between 2012 and 2025. For more recent resources, visit our home page, the Connected Learning Summit, or the Connected Learning Lab.
On June 17, the Aspen Institute Task Force on Learning and the Internet released its final report entitled Learner at the Center of a Networked World. After a year of...
Maria Teresa Kumar – Founding President and CEO of Voto Latino (a nonpartisan organization that empowers Latino Millennials to claim a better future for themselves and their community) – shares...
Carina Wong – Deputy Director for Education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – chats with us about “the power of networks” and being an “impatient optimist.” “There’s a...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Hands-on, production-centered, entrepreneurial activity is at the core of Connected Learning, in anticipation of what...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. “Full Participation” is 1 of the 3 Core Values of Connected Learning, along with Social...
Buffy Hamilton – best known as “The Unquiet Librarian” – shares her insights on why libraries are uniquely poised to be great environments for fostering Connected Learning. “You’re seeing libraries...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. “Equity” is 1 of the 3 Core Values of Connected Learning, along with Social Connection...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Over the last century our education system has barely changed, yet our world has drastically...
Betsy Corcoran – Founder and CEO of EdSurge, an education technology information resource and community – shares her insights on how edtech is being leveraged to inspire students to engage...
Mark Surman – Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation – explains how the principles of Connected Learning power the ‘Webmaker’ and ‘Web Literacy’ work Mozilla is leading. “We can actually...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Peer-Supported is 1 of Connected Learning’s 3 Learning Principles, along with Interest-Powered and Academically Oriented....
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. The enrichment gap — the distance between spending by low-income and high-income parents on our...
Michael Levine – Founding Director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center – shares his thoughts on the need for connecting in-school and out-of-school learning. “We’re not investing nearly enough in...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Formal education is just one of several nodes on a young learner’s entire network of...
Amy Eshleman – Program Leader for Education at the Urban Library Council – gives us an inside look at Learning Labs: spaces within libraries & museums whose learning programs utilize...