Educational Course Development

EduActive is the Institute's education arm. It hosts the Textbook Group, courses, ontology work, the Active Inference Journal, audio-visual production, seasonal school, and related learning initiatives. EduActive projects connect Active Inference to learning infrastructure, pedagogy, and public educational resources.

Projects convert shared ideas into repositories, research outputs, learning infrastructure, media, events, and applied work.

The Textbook Group is a sustained Institute educational program running structured cohort-based learning through Active Inference textbooks. Since 2022 it has run 9 cohorts on the 2022 textbook 'Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior' by Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, and Karl J. Friston. As of mid-2026 the group is live in its first cohort on the 2026 textbook 'Fundamentals of Active Inference: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications of the Free Energy Principle for Engineers' by Sanjeev V. Namjoshi.

The Seasonal School is an Institute educational program providing intensive, structured, and in-depth engagement with Active Inference theory, modeling, and applications. It has run multiple cohorts and developed a track record as a concentrated learning experience for participants from varied backgrounds.

Learning resources point newcomers and experienced participants toward living references, livestreams, Active Inference Insights, textbook groups, readings, code implementations, and domain-specific courses.