Symposium: Internationalizing the Learning Sciences from Formal to Informal Learning Environments
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This symposium brings together researchers at the frontier of an emerging subcommunity of the learning sciences that looks toward developing methodologies and infrastructures with the potential to lead towards an integrated agenda of global research in the learning sciences, spanning both the developed and the developing world, in both formal and informal learning environments. It explores how emerging technologies and methodologies could be further developed to this important end, building on work already in progress.
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