Learning Research and Development Center

The Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at the University of Pittsburgh is an interdisciplinary center focused on describing, understanding, improving, and researching various aspects of human cognition and learning in order to improve and reform instruction and training in schools, the workplace, and informal environments.

Co-founded in 1963 by Robert Glaser and J. Steele Gow,[1] it was among the first such centers in the world focusing on field of fundamental learning studies,[2] and was selected for a program of the Cooperative Research Branch of the United States Office of Education as the first such center to provide a major concentration of effort in psychologically oriented education.

[4][5] Currently composed of 26 faculty from across the departments and schools at the university, the center focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to research.

Among the faculty are education researchers, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, developmental and social psychologists, psycholinguists, evaluation and measurement specialists, organizational behavior researchers, and education policy analysts.

[8] Winner of several architectural awards,[9] the unique building slopes at a 45-degree angle along an upper campus hillside.