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Mission
The mission of the Wallenberg Global Learning Network
is to help students, from primary grades through graduate
school, to achieve better learning outcomes, to support faculty
investigators in producing new knowledge for best learning
practices, and to develop pedagogic and technical solutions
suitable for innovative use in a variety of university and
pre-college settings.
We
support our mission through:
- A
competitive faculty grants program as partnerships between
Stanford and Swedish researchers across different disciplinary
fields of study;
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The creation of more effective learning environments involving
the innovative use of information and communication technologies;
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Dissemination of the results of faculty research projects
to communities of educators beyond the WGLN.
History
In
1999, Stanford University and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg
Foundation established the Wallenberg Global Learning Network
to develop collaborative efforts to improve teaching and learning
through the use of information and communication technologies.
The WGLN had three members: The Stanford Center for Innovations
in Learning, the Swedish Learning Lab (Uppsala University,
the Royal Institute of Technology and Karolinska Institute)
and the Learning Lab of Lower Saxony in Germany. This collaborative
project was finalized during fall 2004. Information on WGLN
projects and all annual achievement reports are available
on this website.
WGLN
II
The
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Stanford University
approved a new joint project in 2004 to foster and support
collaborations between Swedish and Stanford faculty who are
committed to improving teaching and learning. This new project
is named WGLN II and is open to all Swedish universities and
academic units. Pre-college education will be an added focus
of WGLN II. The primary goal is to develop methods, technologies,
and practices that make it possible for students, from primary
school through graduate school, to achieve better learning
outcomes. WGLN II will fund approximately 10 projects per
year through a competitive proposal process. Each project
must be a genuine collaboration between Swedish and Stanford
faculty, and it is hoped that all projects will implement
and test results in ongoing courses or programs. The Knut
and Alice Wallenberg Foundation generously supports the WGLN
II.
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