Announcement: Meet Learnvia at MAA MathFest 2026 in Boston, Booth #122!
What is Learnvia?
Learnvia is a nonprofit learning collaborative that brings educators and researchers together to improve student success in gateway math courses — courses that can open the door to degree completion, STEM pathways, and high-demand careers. By helping more students succeed in these critical courses, Learnvia aims to expand opportunity for students and strengthen the pipeline…
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Insights from Learnvia
Ideas, research, stories, and updates on teaching, learning, courseware, and the people helping shape the Learnvia community.
What is Learnvia?
Learnvia is a nonprofit learning collaborative that brings educators and researchers together to improve student success in gateway math courses — courses that can open the door to degree completion, STEM pathways, and high-demand careers. By helping more students succeed in these critical courses, Learnvia aims to expand opportunity for students and strengthen the pipeline…
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Spotlight on the AI Tutor
Learnvia's embedded AI Tutor is engineered around one firm pedagogical principle constraint: help the student learn without doing the work for them. When a student is struggling and asks the AI Tutor for help, the tutor can ask Socratic questions, point out key features of the problem that will help them figure out how to…
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How Learnvia Supports Students Step by Step
Learnvia's approach to assessment is grounded in learning science, and every layer of support is calibrated to how students actually build understanding and confidence over time. Lessons, Homework, and Self-Quizzes in Learnvia give immediate feedback, and AI Tutor support available 24/7 helps students learn at an individualized pace through intentional, research-informed scaffolding — incremental steps…
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Learnvia’s Latest Platform Updates – September 2026
We're continually improving Learnvia based on real classroom use. Throughout August 2026 the team fixed errors and made several feature improvements and optimizations across the AI Tutor, Chapter Summary, grading, and accessibility. The biggest change is the new Learnvia Kit Library, a single view where you can see every kit you have access to, switch…
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Events
Explore upcoming live faculty-led demonstrations, webinars, in-person events, past recorded sessions, and more.
Upcoming Events
September 2026 Show 5 September dates
- Join a Live DemoSep 22 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger, Colin McGrane and Brandy Wiegers Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
- Join a Live DemoSep 24 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger, Colin McGrane, Bob Pelayo and Brandy Wiegers Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
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Sep 24 Science Behind the Screens: How Learnvia Designs for Learning, show session details
What does it mean to build math courseware around how students actually learn? This session takes a closer look at the overarching design principles and pedagogical strategies that underpin Learnvia’s courseware, and how research becomes concrete choices about what students see, do, and practice.
- Join a Live DemoSep 28 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger, Colin McGrane, Bob Pelayo and Brandy Wiegers Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
- Join a Live DemoSep 29 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger, Colin McGrane, Bob Pelayo and Brandy Wiegers Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
October 2026 Show 10 October dates
- Join a Live DemoOct 07 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger, Colin McGrane, Brandy Wiegers and Bob Pelayo Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
- Join a Live DemoOct 09 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger, Brandy Wiegers and Bob Pelayo Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
- Register
Oct 12 How We Trained the Learnvia AI Tutor, show session details
To genuinely help students who are struggling, tutors need to encourage persistence and let students learn from mistakes. This session digs into what separates Learnvia’s custom-trained AI Tutor from a general-purpose chatbot bolted onto courseware.
- Join a Live DemoOct 13 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger and Brandy Wiegers Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
- Join a Live DemoOct 14 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger, Colin McGrane and Brandy Wiegers Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
- Join a Live DemoOct 19 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger, Brandy Wiegers and Bob Pelayo Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
- Join a Live DemoOct 20 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger, Colin McGrane and Brandy Wiegers Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
- Join a Live DemoOct 27 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger, Colin McGrane, Brandy Wiegers and Bob Pelayo Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
- Register
Oct 28 How Learnvia Builds a Connected Learning Experience, show session details
Learnvia is designed around the idea that each part of a course should prepare students for what comes next, and a student should never be surprised on exam day. This session explores how lessons, homework, and quizzes are intentionally connected through shared learning goals, backward design, scaffolding, and a consistent progression from learning to practice to assessment.
- Join a Live DemoOct 29 Calculus I Demo with Bradley Mauger, Colin McGrane and Brandy Wiegers Hosted by experienced Learnvia faculty, with practical guidance on using the platform in your course.
November 2026 Show 2 November dates
- Register
Nov 03 Science Behind the Screens: How Learnvia Designs for Learning, show session details
What does it mean to build math courseware around how students actually learn? This session takes a closer look at the overarching design principles and pedagogical strategies that underpin Learnvia’s courseware, and how research becomes concrete choices about what students see, do, and practice.
- Register
Nov 20 How We Trained the Learnvia AI Tutor, show session details
To genuinely help students who are struggling, tutors need to encourage persistence and let students learn from mistakes. This session digs into what separates Learnvia’s custom-trained AI Tutor from a general-purpose chatbot bolted onto courseware.
December 2026 Show 1 December date
- Register
Dec 08 How Learnvia Builds a Connected Learning Experience, show session details
Learnvia is designed around the idea that each part of a course should prepare students for what comes next, and a student should never be surprised on exam day. This session explores how lessons, homework, and quizzes are intentionally connected through shared learning goals, backward design, scaffolding, and a consistent progression from learning to practice to assessment.
Past Events & Recordings
Conference
August 5-8, 2026
MAA MathFest
Learnvia connected with faculty at MAA MathFest 2026 in Boston, showcasing its free, research-based Calculus I courseware and previewing Calculus II ahead of its Fall 2026 launch.
Boston, MA
Conference
March 27-28, 2026
ArizMATYC/MAA SW Section Joint Conference
Learnvia team members Abigail Stein, Chris Chan, and Stephanie Jordan connected with faculty in Phoenix on the future of gateway math instruction. Chris presented on how Learnvia's AI-enabled courseware brings lessons, homework, assessments, discussion, and tutoring into one unified experience.
Phoenix, AZ
Conference
March 14, 2026
CMC³ Conference
Learnvia exhibited at the CMC³ (California Mathematics Council – Community Colleges) conference. Dr. Larry Green presented "Calculus with AI Support for Learning," showing how Learnvia provides real-time meaningful support for the complex concepts students need help with.
Santa Rosa, CA
Recent Posts
What is Learnvia?
Learnvia is a nonprofit learning collaborative that brings educators and researchers together to improve student success in gateway math courses
Read full article Spotlight on the AI Tutor
Learnvia's embedded AI Tutor is engineered around one firm pedagogical principle constraint: help the student learn without doing the work
Read full article How Learnvia Supports Students Step by Step
Learnvia's approach to assessment is grounded in learning science, and every layer of support is calibrated to how students actually
Read full article Learnvia’s Latest Platform Updates – September 2026
We're continually improving Learnvia based on real classroom use. Throughout August 2026 the team fixed errors and made several feature
Read full article Insights, Updates, and What’s Ahead
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