LearnerStudio

A nonprofit organized as a convening, research, and grantmaking platform for the future of learning — what it terms the "Third Horizon" of education. Operates at the intersection of systems transformation, learning science, and AI-era pedagogy. Funds a portfolio of grantees working on H3 measurement, learning models, and field-building, and authored the MMI brief that anchors this KB.

Role in the field

LearnerStudio positions itself less as a builder than as a convener and orchestrator. The MMI project is the clearest example: rather than build a measurement tool itself, the organization assembled 53 leading thinkers, practitioners, and innovators (plus twelve youth co-designers) across an 18-month effort to map the H3 measurement landscape, partner with The Study Group on a 2,000+ indicator scan, and synthesize six R&D investment areas the field could prioritize. The brief positions LearnerStudio as committed to "convening and facilitating ongoing dialogue" on the question, not to becoming the tool-builder.

Published work and project portfolio

The MMI brief references several other LearnerStudio publications that together form a body of work:

  • Measures, Metrics, and Indicators for the Third Horizon — December 2025 (the source ingested here).
  • Learning to Flourish — defines what makes a strong H3 learning environment.
  • Human Skills in the Age of AI — meta-analysis of human-skills measurement.
  • Techademics Future Tech Stack — referenced in adjacent strategy work.
  • Public-Purpose Utilities — referenced in adjacent strategy work.

Only the MMI brief has been ingested so far; the others are queued as the natural next sources for this KB.

Grantees named in the MMI brief

The brief discloses three LearnerStudio grantees by footnote:

  • The Study Group — partnered on the indicator scan and methods development.
  • The History Co:Lab — facilitated the SXSW youth design sprint (March 2025).
  • iThrive Games — co-facilitated the SXSW youth design sprint.

These disclosures are useful context for reading the brief's framing of partner work — and they signal where to look first for additional ingest material.

Leadership

  • Babak Mostaghimi — founding partner; focused on systems transformation, learning for the future, and AI. Co-author of the MMI brief and the listed public contact for the project.

The MMI brief was co-authored by Jason Weeby, founder of Periscope Advising, who is a consultant rather than a LearnerStudio staff member. Other LearnerStudio personnel named in the brief's participant roster: Cassie Crockett, Courtney Garcia.

Funders

The MMI project was funded in part by Lemnis. LearnerStudio's broader funding base is not detailed in the ingested material.

Follow-ups

  • Ingest the rest of the LearnerStudio canon (Learning to Flourish, Human Skills in the Age of AI, Public-Purpose Utilities, Techademics Future Tech Stack). The user has these documents available.
  • The relationship between LearnerStudio and Margulf Foundation (Danielle Allen, Liz Aybar Conti, Vanessa Douyon all participate) is worth clarifying — Margulf appears in the participant list at unusual density.