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 workshop
Our free virtual workshop in May 2026 is the founding event of this community. Join us online to help shape the shared vision — the curriculum goals, the resources, and the norms — that will carry this community forward beyond any single event.
Upcoming events
The Discord community
A permanent home for ALife educators
The AEDU workshop is a starting point, not an endpoint. One of its core outcomes is launching a Discord server that gives this community a persistent place to gather — independent of any single institution, conference, or platform.
The server is designed around the work of teaching: sharing syllabi and assignments, workshopping course ideas, coordinating around conferences like ALIFE, and finding collaborators for education research. It's also a space for the broader community of people interested in ALife pedagogy, not just those who could attend the workshop.
The server goes live on May 18, 2026 — Day 1 of the workshop. Workshop registrants will receive the invite link directly.
Register for the workshop →ALife-Edu Community Server
Open to all educators, researchers, and practitioners with an interest in teaching Artificial Life. The server launches on Day 1 of the AEDU workshop and remains open indefinitely.
Invite link distributed to registered workshop participants. Link will also be posted publicly here after launch.
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 is 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 will grow from here.
If you're interested in getting involved — contributing resources, co-organizing future workshops, or helping shape the community — come to the workshop. That's where it all starts.
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