THE NEXT FRONTIER IS HOW WE LEARN

Explore what
learning can be.

A universe of possibility.
Open to everyone.

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AN OPEN LEARNING R&D STUDIOKeep exploring

01 / A NEW FIELD OF POSSIBILITY

What if learning
worked differently?

An idea you can move. A decision you can rehearse. A world you can change.

Learning Frontier is an open learning research and development studio created by ACED Works. We build experiences that turn curiosity into understanding—and share them freely.

02 / NEW WORLDS. ENDLESS WHAT IFS.

Step into
the possible.

Play. Wonder.
Practice. Create.

Discover an incredible new way to learn at school—the Learning Frontier way. Explore new ideas with comprehensive teaching packs designed for students and teachers to love.

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NEW EXPLORATION / GRADES 6–12

Storm Lab

One storm.
A world of connections.

Build a hurricane. Change the conditions. Follow the consequences. A live 3D visualizer turns storm formation, coastal flooding, and real-world decisions into questions students can investigate.

Bring the Learning Frontier way into your classroom with comprehensive teaching packs for grades 6–12. Practice, create, and explore connections across science, math, history, social studies, and economics through one shared experience.

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Storm Lab’s hurricane visualizer, with ocean-temperature and wind-shear controls and a five-day growth graph — INSIDE THE LIVE LAB
Seven grade-level missions. A historical hurricane archive. Room to explore.

Illustrated lunar landscape with Earth above the horizon — Illustrative campaign artwork · Not to scale

EARTH & SPACE / GRADES 6–12

AstroLab

Small moves.
Cosmic discoveries.

Follow the Moon. Shift your perspective. See the Earth–Moon system become something you can investigate, with seven grade pathways, guided missions, and interactive views.

Keep the wonder going with comprehensive teaching packs from our own shop. Turn predictions into evidence, practice new skills, and create discoveries together—the Learning Frontier way.

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Keep following your curiosity.

Five more ways to make the invisible visible.

SOUND & DISCOVERY · BETA

Sound Lab

Tune a frequency and watch sand find a pattern. Trace harmony, explore interfering waves, and sculpt the character of a tone in four hands-on sound experiments.

Resonance · Harmony · WavesFree access

HANDS-ON PHYSICS · BETA

Magnet Lab

Move a magnet. Make electricity. Explore magnetic fields, bend a charged particle’s path, and discover what changes the voltage you create.

Fields · Motion · ElectricityFree access

INTERACTIVE EARTH SCIENCE

Volcano Lab

Look beneath the surface. Change the magma, release the gas, and compare eruptions in a landscape you can turn, pause, and explore.

Magma · Eruptions · ExperimentsFree access

IMMERSIVE EXPLORATION

Ocean Explorer

From sunlit waters to the deepest trench. Meet extraordinary life, watch real ocean footage, and investigate how light and pressure shape the world below.

Depths · Habitats · DiscoveryFree access

PLANETARY SCIENCE

Planet Lab

Move a world closer to its star. Change its greenhouse warming and reflectivity. Predict, experiment, and discover what makes a planet’s temperature change.

Climate · Orbits · ExperimentsFree access

Earth imagery: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring

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Sound, magnet, volcano, and ocean artwork is illustrative. Every experience opens in a new tab, free to explore.

Learn and gather.
Parenting in community.

LIFEPROOF PARENTING / SESSION-BASED LEARNING

A more human architecture
for learning.

LifeProof Parenting reimagines the conventions of the learning management system around a simple, powerful idea: the session is the foundation. A free, open-access experience brings courses, reflection, and community into a continuous learning journey, with no account or password required.

Learners can save a session, return with a private resume code—even on another device—and export their notes, reflections, saved resources, and course details. Each session becomes a portable record of discovery, ready to carry into everyday life.

Begin freely.No account required.Return effortlessly.Save your session.Carry it forward.Export your learning.

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03 / CURIOSITY, WITH A METHOD

We make things.
Then we ask better questions.

Every experience is an invitation to learn—and an opportunity to understand how learning itself can work better.

Ask something worth exploring.

Start with a real learning challenge. An idea that’s hard to see. A skill that needs practice. A question with room for discovery.

Make the idea tangible.

Build something people can change, choose, test, or create. Let the learner become part of what happens.

Learn from the experience.

Listen to learners. Notice where understanding grows and where the design gets in the way. Refine, then try again.

Share what moves us forward.

Release useful experiences freely. Share the questions, design choices, and discoveries behind the work.

04 / SMALL SPARKS. WHOLE NEW WORLDS.

Learning takes
many forms.

We follow the learning question.
The format grows from there.

01Widgets & tools

One idea, made visible. Small interactive tools that help people see a relationship, test an assumption, or solve a problem.

A MOMENT OF CLARITY

02Games & activities

Choices with consequences. Meaningful challenges, room to experiment, and feedback that makes the next attempt more informed.

A REASON TO TRY AGAIN

03Labs & simulations

Systems you can explore. Change a variable, make a prediction, and investigate what happens. Planet Lab is our first exploration.

Enter Planet Lab

04Course experiences

A connected journey from curiosity to capability. Guided practice, thoughtful feedback, and something meaningful to take into the real world.

A JOURNEY THAT BUILDS

05 / FROM THE STUDIO

FIELD NOTE
001DESIGN NOTE · PLANET LAB

Give curiosity
something to do.

A planet becomes a learning experience when you can ask “what if?”—and do something about it.

In Planet Lab, a prediction comes before an experiment. You change one variable, see the result, and compare it with what you expected. A surprising answer becomes a reason to look closer.

Read the design note

The question behind the experience

Can making and testing a prediction help people explain how distance, greenhouse warming, and reflectivity affect a planet’s temperature?

Why start with one variable?

The guided missions hold other controls fixed so a relationship is easier to see. Free exploration then opens all three controls, giving learners room to form questions of their own.

What the model makes visible

The experience connects an action to an immediate result. A brighter world reflects more sunlight. Moving closer to a fixed Sun-like star increases incoming energy. A chosen greenhouse warming offset raises the modeled temperature.

Where the model stops

This is a simplified energy-balance model. It does not reproduce a planet’s complete climate, and temperature alone cannot establish whether a world supports life. Those boundaries belong inside the learning experience.

What we want to learn next

We want to understand whether learners can explain a new scenario after exploring. That is a research question, not a demonstrated result. As the studio tests and refines its work, we’ll share what we find.

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06 / POSSIBILITY BELONGS TO EVERYONE

Knowledge opens worlds.
Let’s leave the door open.

Our public Learning Frontier simulators and learning experiences are free to explore and share. Bring it into a classroom. Try it with a friend. Pass along something that changes how you see.

Open access.

No course fees. No membership required to learn.

Made to travel.

Share the experiences and keep their credits with them.

Room for everyone.

Clear language, thoughtful design, and different ways to participate.

A note on sharing

Share public experience links freely. Follow the credits and reuse details provided with individual resources; third-party material may have its own terms. Teaching packs sold through our own shop have their own purchase and use terms. Keep private progress and return links to yourself. Free access does not imply that every project’s source code is released.

KEEP POSSIBILITY OPEN

Fuel the next
moment of discovery.

Help extraordinary learning stay within everyone’s reach.

Your support helps us build, refine, and freely share experiences that make difficult ideas tangible. Contribute once to move the work forward, or contribute monthly to support the next frontier.

Learning Frontier is an initiative of ACED Works.

07 / THE STUDIO BEHIND THE EXPLORATION

Ambitious by design.
Generous by nature.

Learning Frontier is the open learning R&D initiative created by ACED Works.

We bring learning design, creative technology, and a spirit of experimentation together to push what’s possible in digital learning.

Our mission is to expand what learning can be by designing, testing, and freely sharing experiences that turn curiosity into understanding and capability.

We’re building a growing body of work—and sharing what we discover along the way.

Meet ACED Works

ACEDWORKS

LEARNING DESIGN + TECHNOLOGY
BUILT AROUND REAL WORK

THE COMPANY BEHIND LEARNING FRONTIER

Learning, made
to work.

Turn what people know
into what they can do.

ACED Works turns your team’s knowledge into guided practice, interactive simulations, and tools people can use in the flow of work. Our open experiments at Learning Frontier help shape what we build.

Explore ACED Works Let’s build something useful

MEET THE ACED PLATFORM

From the first lesson
to the next shift.

The ACED platform connects training, shift tasks, practical guidance, and team culture. A task leads to the how-to, the practice, and the feedback—so learning stays connected to the work.

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01 / LEARN & PRACTICE

Build confidence before it counts.

Short lessons, realistic simulations, and readiness checks turn information into useful practice.

02 / DO & IMPROVE

Bring learning into the day.

Connect shift tasks with procedures and reference material, with optional Job Coach assistance.

03 / SEE & SUPPORT

Know where your team needs you.

Manager views bring progress and skill gaps into focus, helping you choose the next coaching conversation.

ACED platform learner dashboard with assigned training, progress, and activities — THE LEARNER VIEW
A clear place to begin.

ACED platform simulation library with interactive workplace practice experiences — HANDS-ON PRACTICE
Make room to rehearse.

ACED platform manager dashboard with team progress, training, and performance insights — THE MANAGER VIEW
See the next useful step.

Actual ACED platform demo screens · Fictional team and sample data. Select a screen to explore the live platform.

Your people. Your knowledge.
A better way to put it to work.

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09 / YOUR NEXT GREAT IDEA STARTS HERE

Let’s make
something extraordinary.

FROM WHAT IF TO WHAT’S NEXT.

Bring the big idea.
The tricky topic.
The thing nobody’s tried yet.

Tell us who you’re designing for and what you want to make possible. A rough idea is a great place to start.

Projects, partnerships, or a question?Start with the form

Custom projects and partnerships are led by ACED Works. Learning Frontier’s public experiences stay free to explore and share.

Explore whatlearning can be.

What if learningworked differently?

Step intothe possible.