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Learning Futures Collaboratives

Advancing research that informs, guides and leads to solutions — with and for educators and communities.

Learning Futures Collaboratives are future-focused, ideas-driven, high-impact research accelerators led by the MLFC community with partners. They leverage the collective scholarship and insight of Arizona State University faculty, doctoral students, staff, K–12 educators and partners from private and nonprofit organizations to transform ideas into action that improves education.

The LFCs are based at the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation.

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Meeting the challenge

Education plays a critical role in addressing some of society’s most pressing challenges and in supporting the conditions for human development. The needs are great: educator roles are shifting, learner needs are diversifying, and artificial intelligence is reshaping how knowledge is created, accessed, and applied.

The Learning Futures Collaboratives at MLFC provide a model for how research-practice-policy can lead to sustainable, scalable innovation. They emphasize:

Public impact

Turning ideas into action

LFCs are a place where scholars, students and the wider community share knowledge and accelerate ideas that generate evidence-based resources and projects to address education’s greatest challenges — through fast, iterative research.

Community Benefit

Building lasting solutions that empower communities

LFCs collaborate with communities, including other universities nationally and internationally, to identify emerging and future needs, sharing knowledge and co-creating solutions that are mutually respectful and beneficial.

Scalability

Making research accessible

LFCs are designing resources, tools and products that are accessible and scalable to learners, educators, policy makers and communities nationally and globally.