在P-20学校和非学校​​环境中，该领域的教师进行研究以增强学生，教育者，研究人员和社区成员在21世纪技术支持环境中的知识和学习能力。该研究领域将对开发和支持技术支持的学习的创新方向感兴趣的人们聚集在一起。相关的研究视角是多学科的，涵盖了心理学，社会学，人类学和传播学等传统学科。研究致力于解决由新兴信息技术，教育政策以及技术网络和系统所产生，影响和告知的最新应用问题。
Faculty in LTTE focus on issues related to learning, teaching, and teacher education. There are four sub-areas of focus within LTTE. (1) Faculty in the STEM Education area examine mathematics, science, engineering, and technology teaching and learning in both formal and informal contexts, ranging from preschool through college to teacher education, with a focus on diversity and equity issues. (2) Faculty in Special Education investigate autism, learning (including reading) disabilities, developmental risks, instruction and behavioral supports for students with mild, moderate, and severe disabilities, family support for families of children with disabilities, teacher education and professional development, and cross-cultural comparative study on inclusive education. (3) Faculty in the Teacher Education and Professional Development area examine the development of, influences on, and consequences of teaching practices in and out of school. Research interests include preservice teacher education, the professional development of practicing teachers, the development of subject matter and pedagogical knowledge, curriculum formation and implementation, teacher thinking, problem-finding, and decision-making, educational relations among teachers, students, and their communities, and the relationship between what teachers do and what students learn. (4) Faculty in the Literacy area examine issues in composition and rhetoric, including history and theory of composition and writing instruction, writing in the disciplines and writing across the curriculum, assessment of writing, sociolinguistics of literacy, including classroom discourse and the construction of knowledge, and the impact of digital technologies on writing and communication.