TELS at The Concord Consortium

In the Fall of 2003, the Concord Consortium co-founded the Technology Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) Center, a Teaching and Learning Center funded by the National Science Foundation. By providing major funding for an Education Accelerator, TELS supports applied research on the educational impacts on science of information and computer technologies.

Modeled on the large research institutions that do "big science," the Education Accelerator plans to do "big education" - projects requiring collaboration and resources beyond the scope of most educational research. The portal and modeling software developed as part of the MAC project at the The Concord Consortium is one example of the technology that will allow the Accelerator to undertake large studies using students anywhere.

TELS is a collaboration that includes The Concord Consortium, seven colleges and universities, and seven school districts. The lead institution is the University of California, Berkeley, where Marcia Linn serves as Principal Investigator: http://www.telscenter.org

For more information on TELS, see the following:

• An overview of our project plans at the time of funding:
  http://www.concord.org/newsletter/2003-fall/accelerator.html

• An overview of the  research of the center as of April 2005, in the form of posters.

• Related papers and presentations.

• A project review prepared for the NSF.

• A recent paper by Marcia Linn.