About Us

This Spring, educators scrambled to adapt their classes for teaching via video. It did not go very well. By this Fall, we need to embed virtual classrooms with more of the social, emotional, and motivational elements that make in-person teaching so engaging.

Nested Learning Collective began with a simple idea: rally around our educational communities and provide relief to the millions of educators worldwide tasked with being ‘prepared for everything’ this fall: face to face, online, and hybrid teaching scenarios.

This quote summarizes the problem: “I teach three large courses and am currently teaching summer session. I can’t redo those three fall courses in three ways. Preparing for all possibilities is just overwhelming, exhausting and ultimately impossible” – Erika Lee of Indiana University

Our educational communities are struggling. Educators, like all of us, are dealing with COVID-19 at work and at home, while juggling a much heavier workload. Schools are cutting budgets and some may not survive. Even if universities remain open, many students will choose to avoid campus, and professors will have to run both a live and virtual version of their class. 

The more successful educators are at engaging students this year, the easier it will be for students and their parents to remain productive, too. There are many ways to help. Our work is powered by a coalition of private citizens, students, digital and on-campus educators and administrators, and the communities around them. If you would like to join our efforts, donate, contribute in a creative way, or improve our global reach, please email ba[at]seas.harvard.edu.