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August 14, 2020
Over the past three years, a unique collaboration between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Nigeria’s Bayero University in Kano (BUK), and Florida State University (FSU) in the United States has helped Africa’s most populous country strengthen its ability to teach early grade reading, the foundation of lifelong learning.
February 25, 2020
The Uzbekistan Education Reform Program is a new initiative sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development under the Science, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (STIP) in Higher Education Annual Program Statement.
November 26, 2019
Discover how Learning Systems Institute (LSI) has worked to improve learning and performance for 50 years at Florida State University, in Florida, nationally, and internationally.
November 26, 2019
A first-grade classroom in northeast Nigeria can be a difficult place to learn.
Classes might be filled with 100 students, and although many children speak a regional language called Kanuri, teachers often give classes in Hausa, a wider-used lingua franca. Many of the students’ parents can’t read. Teachers may not be...
November 26, 2019
Discover how Learning Systems Institute (LSI) has worked to improve learning and performance for 50 years at Florida State University, in Florida, nationally, and internationally.
September 13, 2019
Founded in 1969, the Learning Systems Institute is one of the nation’s oldest and most productive university-based education research organizations. LSI strives to be an internationally recognized, university-based research and development organization that measurably improves the learning and performance of organizations and individuals.
August 26, 2019
In August 2019, the Nigeria Centre for Reading Research and Development held the National Reading Conference at Bayero University, Kano. Approximately 800 participants attended the conference organized by BUK with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Northern Education Initiative Plus (NEI+).
May 8, 2019
It’s with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Laura Lang, past director of the Learning Systems Institute at Florida State University. She died on May 7, 2019 in a tragic scuba diving accident.
The memorial service for Laura Lang will be held on May 10, 2019 at 2:00 PM at Grace in the Mountains Episcopal Church 394 N. Haywood Street, Waynesville, NC 28786.
April 16, 2019
There will be a screening of the film JFK: The Last Speech at the GLOBE scheduled for Wednesday, April 24th at 5-7 PM. The film was put together by Amherst College classmates of Prof. Peter Easton starting at their 50th reunion to commemorate President Kennedy’s visit to the campus in October 1963...
April 10, 2019
The Learning Systems Institute at Florida State university is co-hosting a reception at the Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) 2019 Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 16th from 8:00 PM- 9:45 PM. The location will be Bayview Room A.