The ELO is hosting an interactive Design Jam in partnership with the School of Education’s Center for Education Design, Evaluation, and Research. In small groups, students will work through a creative problem-solving process to come up with unique and innovative ideas to solve real-world challenges related to learning and technology. This year's focus is: secondary school students (6-12 grades) need a way to learn essential skills like collaboration, creativity, and communication through the use of educational technology.

In past years, ideas from this Design Jam have been applied to the James A. Kelly Learning Levers Prize, an innovation competition based in the School of Education and co-sponsored by UMSI.