Become an LSI Investigator

The primary goal of the LSI is to engage, in unique and productive ways, all of the faculty and graduate students actively pursuing research, development, and instructional programs in the learning sciences at Vanderbilt University. The designation LSI investigator has been created with that goal in mind.

An LSI investigator is a faculty member at Vanderbilt University pursuing research and providing instruction in the learning sciences. LSI investigators join the emerging community of learning sciences research and scholarship - they participate in LSI programs; have access to LSI services; nominate visiting scholars, doctoral candidates for topper awards, and postdoctoral fellows; and more generally, make suggestions for how the LSI might pursue its mission in new and powerful ways.

LSI strategies include:

• Building a community of scholarship on the learning sciences.
• Assembling interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students to pursue research and development in the learning sciences.
• Sponsoring seminars, colloquia, and visiting scholars to facilitate the exchange of ideas.
• Supporting predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows to bring the best and brightest emerging young scholars to campus to join the learning sciences community.

Faculty who wish to explore this opportunity are encouraged to contact the director of the Learning Sciences Institute, Steve Elliott.