Partner Organizations
MIT Playful Journey Lab: The MIT Playful Journey Lab, made up of researchers and designers with a passion for playful assessment and learning, is embarking on a journey to develop emerging technologies as well as non-digital tools to better understand, design, and use innovative approaches that will prepare individuals to participate in 21st century economies. The lab is founded on the belief that these technologies and approaches, supported by research-backed playful learning and assessment practices, are an important tool for empowering learners, and are necessary for designing a lifelong and lifewide education system that prepares individuals to learn throughout their lives — across school, work and interest-driven contexts.
Maker Ed: The mission of Maker Ed is to harness the potential of making to transform teaching and learning. To achieve this, the organization provides training, support, and resources to individuals, institutions, and communities who are integrating maker education into their learning environments. With more than five years of work in the relatively young field of maker education, Maker Ed aggregates and shares examples of making in action in order to validate, elevate, and amplify work on the ground, representing work across the country in both formal and informal educational settings, in rural and urban communities alike, and at three different levels: the field and movement, pedagogy and practice, and of learner outcomes.
Work Supported By
MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J‑WEL): An initiative of MIT and Community Jameel, J‑WEL works with member organizations to promote excellence and transformation in education at MIT and worldwide. J‑WEL engages educators, technologists, policymakers, societal leaders, employers, and employees through online and in-person collaborations, workshops, research, and information-sharing events. J‑WEL member organizations work with MIT faculty and staff to address global opportunities for scalable change in education. Funding from J‑WEL supported the development of the Designing for Documentation & Assessment Learning Guide.
National Science Foundation: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…” The NSF is vital because it supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future. Development of the Beyond Rubrics toolkit was supported by The Beyond Rubrics: Moving Towards Embedded Assessment in Maker Education NSF EAGER grant 1723459 through their Division of Research on Learning under the Education and Human Resources (EHR) area. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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