The Future of work and
Education
Innovating in the workplace and in our schools
For decades, our interdisciplinary teams have worked to optimize outcomes for learners of all ages and backgrounds, and we’ve created technologies that have redefined the workplace and created a more productive world.
We’re now at a point in time, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, when the very nature of education and work is rapidly changing, and major shifts are expected to continue. Technologies like artificial intelligence/machine learning, including large language models, are fundamentally challenging traditional notions of how we learn, what it means to be an educated person, how work is done, and what we need to know to be successful employees and citizens.
Our researchers are exploring how these tools can support student learning and development in equitable, supportive, and healthy ways, as well as their potential to transform how we work across a range of industries, including design and manufacturing, computer software development, legal work, office work, medicine and health care, military logistics, and research.
Innovating in
Real-world impact
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Podcast: A reading intervention for struggling adolescent students
The SERP Institute’s Margaret Troyer and Kala Jones discuss a research-based reading program that helps older students turn the page.
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SRI researchers watched over 1000 YouTube videos for kids, and this is what they learned
Most YouTube videos intended to teach early literacy and math don’t use characters or narratives, according to recent SRI research.
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SRI to be presented with three IEEE Milestones for innovations that have transformed our lives
The Milestones honor PARC’s invention of the Alto personal computer, Ethernet, and the Laser Printer.