About Codon Learning

Codon Learning was formed by a team of educators to create a teaching and learning platform that is grounded in evidence from the education research literature—such as high-structure course design, metacognition, and self-testing.

Codon’s platform is used in over 240 courses and in a wide variety of settings and formats. There are many education research studies underway that prove the efficacy of the platform.

Codon’s advisory board includes National Academy scientists, college presidents, and education leaders who specialize in how to scale paradigm changes in postsecondary education. The company’s funding comes from the National Science Foundation and a group of scientists and educators.

Scott Freeman, course director of Introducing the Sciences, describes the Codon platform well: 

“Before Codon, no one had ever designed a teaching and learning platform that implemented backward design and high-structure course design, much less insights from the cognitive science literature on metacognition and self-regulated learning. They are working at an entirely different level of sophistication than any company I’ve run across.”