The Munich Center of the Learning Sciences (MCLS) invites applications for 10 PhD positions (equaling 2/3 of a full academic position, amounting to approximately 29.000 – 34.000 €/year, initial duration of 24 months with the possibility of extending for one year) within the international doctoral school “Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation” (REASON) funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria (ENB) to commence in October 2019.

All information regarding the program and the application procedure is available on the REASON webpage.

The coordination office would be happy to answer any further question at reason-enb@psy.lmu.de.

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

At the program’s core are its design studios and reflective seminars. Courses and 1-credit modules are designed to foster learning of how people learn, how to foster learning, how to design for learners, and how to influence a focus on learning among members of a design team. Students use what they are learning to complete their design challenges and participate in their internships. They graduate with a portfolio that showcases the depth and breadth of their design work and demonstrates their capabilities in learner-centered design, leadership, and pedagogical and technological imagination.

More information can be found here:

TENURE-TRACK POSITION IN LEARNING SCIENCES

Bridging the research-practice gap: Advancing evidence-based argumentation

The REASON doctoral school invites young researchers to its 2019 Interdisciplinary Winter School to discuss how evidence-based argumentation can be advanced across different populations and disciplines. The event will take place from February 18th to February 20th, 2019 at the TUM School of Education in Marsstraße 20-22, 80335 München.

Highlights of the scientific program include keynote lectures from international experts on science learning and science motivation (Judy Harackiewicz, University of Wisconsin-Madison), on science education and fostering argumentation (Sibel Erduran, University of Oxford) and on methods for argument evaluation and argument invention (Douglas Walton, University of Winsor), as well as workshops on teachers' use of scientific evidence (Konrad Krainer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), evidence-based argumentation (Andreas Hetmanek, Technical University of Munich) and meta-analyses as evidence generation and evaluation methods (Karsten Stegmann, Ludwig-Maximililians-Universität München).

The application submission deadline is September 7th, 2018.
For further information, please visit our REASON Winter School 2019 webpage.

We are looking forward to your application!

Downloads

REASON Winter School 2019 - Flyer
REASON Winter School 2019 - Poster

In an effort to make the NAPLeS videos more accessible to non-English speakers, we just uploaded a number of new NAPLeS Videos with German subtitles.

They can be found in the video tabs on the individual Research Topics pages.

More information about this program and the other NAPLeS Doctoral and Master’s programs from 36 universities worldwide can be found on the NAPLeS Programs page.

LMU Munich offers the international doctoral school “Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation” (REASON). REASON brings together more than 30 PhD candidates and professors from various academic disciplines (psychology, educational science, mathematics education, biology education, medical education, computer science, social work) who share a research interest in studying aspects of scientific reasoning and argumentation.

From March 5th to March 7th, 2018 the REASON doctoral school will host the International Spring School on “Advances in Measuring Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation” at LMU Munich. The program of the Spring School includes keynote speeches, workshops and a symposium led by external experts, poster presentations of the accepted PhD candidates, and social networking events.

We look forward to applications from PhD candidates who are currently working on SRA. The submission deadline is October 15th, 2017.

The event poster and flyer are attached. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to learn about state-of-the-art research on SRA, as well as to present and discuss your own work with leading experts in the field.

Best regards from Munich,

The REASON Spring School 2018 organizers

Find more information in these documents: Flyer and Invitation

REASON Spring School 2018 Website

If you're interested in participating: Send an email to naples@psy.lmu.de.

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Update:

The webinar is over, but the recording will be online soon. You can find it using the link above.

Today we uploaded another set of NAPLeS expert videos, which include interviews and presentations from renowned researchers like Dan Hickey or Shaaron Ainsworth and topics such as embodied cognition or seamless learning. You can find them in the videos section.

Additionally, we published the webinar recording of Knowledge Building: Communities Working With Ideas in Design Mode by Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter. It is available here.

If you're interested in participating: Send an email to naples@psy.lmu.de.

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Update:

The webinar is over, but the recording will be online soon. You can find it using the link above.

NAPLeS now consists of Masters’ and Doctoral programs from 33 universities located in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Special thanks go to following people who agreed to engage in different NAPLeS action items: Susan Yoon, Jim Slotta, Mike Tissenbaum, Mike Rook, Freydis Vogel, Frank Fischer, Daniel Sommerhoff, Georg Kuschel, Jessica Ashraf, and Paul Flynn.

Thanks to Daniel Sommerhoff and Georg Kuschel we could also continue the recording of high quality videos for our Learning Sciences video resources: http://isls-naples.psy.lmu.de/video-resources/index.html

All information regarding the program and the application procedure is available on the REASON program webpage.

Rational of the workshop

There are numerous academic programs worldwide teaching the Learning Sciences. Yet, there is still no general agreement on the core topics that really constitute the Learning Sciences. This workshop is devoted to the creation of a syllabus for a Learning Sciences introductory course by integrating multiple sources of information on the Learning Sciences (e.g. perspectives from experts in the Learning Sciences, already existing syllabi, etc.).

A special focus while creating this syllabus will be on the NAPLeS (Network of Academic Programs in the Learning Sciences) video resources and their integration into the Learning Sciences introductory course. In order to improve the value of the NAPLeS video resources for their use in the Learning Sciences introductory course this workshop aims at (a) structuring the different topics of the webinar series in a way that is suitable for the Learning Sciences introductory course, (b) editing the video resources in a way that makes them more attractive for the use in local courses, and (c) embed the videos into the syllabus of the Learning Sciences introductory course.

We are looking forward to welcome participants representing multiple levels of expertise. If you are interested to participate in this workshop, please write an email to naples@psy.lmu.de.

Downloads

• NAPLeS Workshop_ICLS 2016 invitation

If you're interested in participating: Send an email to naples@psy.lmu.de.