An overview of my master’s program in Learning Sciences and Technologies (LST) at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (2022-2023).

Program Information

The LST program at Penn GSE is housed within the Learning, Teaching, and Literacies (LTL) division and consists of 10 course units (CU’s):

5 Core courses
2 Concentration courses
3 Elective courses

The program takes 1-2 years to complete, depending on the number of courses taken each semester. I completed the program in 1 year by taking 4 courses in the Fall and Spring semesters and 2 courses during the summer.

See the timeline below for the courses I took during each semester. I hope this is helpful for prospective students interested in the LST program at Penn GSE. Feel free to reach out via email or LinkedIn if you have any questions 🙂

Program Timeline

Note: There are two EDUC 5100 courses because they were both experimental courses in the Learning, Teaching, and Literacies (LTL) division. These courses may vary by semester.

Fall 2022	Spring 2023	Summer 2023
Foundations of Teaching and Learning (EDUC 6116) #core	Educational Assessment of and for Learning (EDUC 6111) #concentration	Artificial Intelligence for Children and Youth: Learning, Creating, and Understanding (EDUC 5100) #elective
Design of Learning Environments (EDUC 6139) #core link to project	Learning Sciences: Past, Present, and Future (EDUC 6144) #core	Social and Statistical Network Analysis (EDUC 7847) #elective link to project
Introductory Statistics for Education Research (EDUC 6667) #core	Capstone Seminar (EDUC 6168) #core link to project
Adaptive Learning Systems/Intelligent Learning Systems (EDUC 5100) #concentration	Independent Study [Research Intern @ Penn Wonder Lab] (EDUC 9999) #elective link to project

Course Structure

Penn GSE follows the semester system, which comprises 15 weeks. Core and Concentration courses in the LST program typically have a midterm paper during Week 8 or 9 and a final paper/project due during the last week of the semester. Assignments for these courses involved readings, discussion posts/annotations, responses to peers’ discussion posts/annotations, 1-2 discussion facilitation sessions, and presentations. The structure of elective courses will vary based on the program.