The Future of Learning Has Arrived

Scholar is the student work space of the future: web-based, social, and offering rich formative assessment to support learners. Designed for approximately Grade 4 to 12 and beyond, Scholar supports active knowledge making and creative thinking—for writing narratives, arguments, and information texts. More than this, with its multimodal capacity to include images, video and audio, Scholar supports learners in representing their knowledge in a variety of ways in a broad range of subjects.

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What Our Users Say

‘I loved this tool. I got constructive criticism from peers, and when I read over my own story, I agreed with them!’ Grade 8 Scholar User

Scholar is the product of three years of intensive research and development at the University of Illinois and Common Ground, supported by major grants from the Institute of Educational Sciences, US Department of Education. Standing behind that is a decade of experience in web-based knowledge software development and three decades of educational research.

Laying New Foundations for Education

Scholar is built on a unique depth of research and thinking about ways to transform student learning. This is outlined in two foundational texts from Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope: Literacies (Cambridge UP, 2012) and New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, 2nd edition (Cambridge UP, 2012).

Mary Kalantzis is Dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois, and Bill Cope is a Research Professor in the Department of Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois.

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Join us on a journey into the future of learning. Educators are invited to use Scholar for free for 60 days. With your free educator account, you can create and participate in professional networks plus explore learning and assessment spaces for use with students.

All you need to use Scholar is an account, PC/Mac, network connection, and updated browser.

Educator Account

When educators add student accounts to Scholar for a modest, annual fee, you gain the ability to work with students within secure knowledge communities and to use a suite of interactive, collaborative tools that support students as they write to learn and learn to write across the curriculum. Scholar's tools help teachers to track student progress quickly and easily and design learning experiences for whole classes, small groups, and individual students.

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