Being invited by ICI, Professor Marcia C. Linn, from institute of education in Berkeley, university of California, came to made lectures and discuss cooperative research during December 11 to 15. She made a lecture titled “Improvement in Science Teaching and Learning: depend on technical” in DaXia forum of ECNU on the afternoon of December 13.

In addition, she has respectively made several lectures and discussion activities for the African Masters and students and faculties of ICI. The themes are “education graduate program in developing countries”, “visualization studies of scientific activities”, “WISE-based teacher professional development”, and so on. She also made further communication with teachers of learning science research center and achieved agreement about further mutual research cooperation.