A new Ph.D. degree, Learning Sciences and Technology (LST), will engage all four colleges of the university in active pursuit of ways to enhance knowledge regarding how learning occurs in diverse settings, including traditional ones (like school classrooms and business training programs) and less-traditional ones (like online museums and other virtual worlds).

The new degree, the first new Ph.D. developed at Lehigh in a number of years, received approval from the Board of Trustees. Educational Technology and Technology-Based Teacher Education, the first two concentrations in the degree, have begun preparing for February 1 st applications to admit the first class of LST Ph.D. students.

The College of Education 's doctoral students collaborate closely with faculty to generate new theories and classification systems, authentic approaches to assessing learning, innovative curricula that make the most of promising technologies, and a wide range of creative methods of teaching and learning in a global world highly interconnected by technology. LST research works to identify, describe, and apply what we know about learning from two distinctive but highly related perspectives: human and technological.