Why this community exists
ALife is taught in isolation
Educators who want to bring Artificial Life into their classrooms have few places to turn. There are no shared curricula, no common learning objectives, and no sustained community to exchange what works. Each of us reinvents the wheel.
Build something that lasts
ALife-Edu exists to change that. We're developing shared learning goals, collecting and creating open pedagogical resources, and growing a global network of educators who support each other — starting with a workshop, and building from there.
Anyone who teaches life
Whether you're incorporating ALife into an intro CS course, running a dedicated simulation lab, doing outreach in secondary schools, or building an industry curriculum — if you're teaching the principles of living systems, this community is for you.
Start with the ALIFE 2026
Our next workshop is in August at ALIFE 2026, in-person as well as virtual. Join us at the conference to help shape the shared vision — the curriculum goals, the resources, and the norms — that will carry this community forward beyond any single event. If you can't make the conference, join the community on Discord or email.
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The Community
Join the Community
Looking for our Discord or want to sign up for email updates? Find all of our communication channels on the community page.
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About this site
This site is the community-led home of ALife-Edu — organized collaboratively, not tied to any single institution, conference, or lab. It exists to serve the people working to make Artificial Life a teachable, learnable, and widely-accessible subject.
The Spring 2026 workshop was the community's founding event, organized collaboratively by educators from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Carleton College, the University of Warwick, Cross Labs, and In Silence AI. Future workshops, resources, and community activities have grown from there.
If you're interested in getting involved — contributing resources, co-organizing future workshops, or helping shape the community — reach out on Discord and/or email. We'd love to have you!
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