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The National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) is headquartered at CU Boulder, and a non-profit organization chartered in 2004 by the National Science Foundation to increase the participation of girls and women in computing. Before NCWIT was formed, programs focusing on women and…
Pedagogy | Cultural Change | Access | Technology | Leadership CommitmentIn 2014, the University of Michigan launched an NSF-funded program to reinvent introductory teaching and learning in the core STEM disciplines. REBUILD (Researching Evidence-Based Undergraduate Instructional and Learning Developments) aimed to promote recruitment, retention, and academic…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceCornell University has initiated institution-wide changes to the core undergraduate biology curriculum to transition from traditional lecture based instruction to incorporation of active learning techniques. The first phase of this five-year transition will focus on four large introductory courses.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching Excellence | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceCornell University is undertaking campus-wide and discipline-specific initiatives to provide graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with practical experience in planning for, stimulating, and assessing undergraduate learning with lunchtime workshops and targeted events on developing assessment…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceEmory University’s Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods (QuanTM) new and innovative curriculum prepares students for variety of professional careers and graduate school with statistical training, fellowships, a faculty skill-building leave program, and an annual speaker series and…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceIndiana University Bloomington was an early creator of new majors that bring together interdisciplinary faculty using innovative pedagogy for instruction. For example, Human Biology is an intellectually-vibrant inter- and multi-disciplinary major that challenges students to gain a holistic view of…
Pedagogy | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | AssessmentsThe Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) at Indiana University Bloomington provides leadership and expertise to enable innovation in curricula, implementation of powerful technologies and pedagogies in and beyond the classroom, and student engagement with learning resources and…
Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceMichigan State University is instituting reform of the gateway courses in biology, physics, and chemistry with an ultimate goal to design and implementation of a set of coherent gateway courses where students learn how to engage with the core ideas of the discipline in scientifically plausible ways.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceNorthwestern University Ventures in Biology Education (nuViBe) aims to reshape Northwestern undergraduate bioscience education and prepare students to pursue cutting-edge research, advanced degrees, and professional careers in biological and biomedical sciences.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceLabMatch was created to foster meaningful research collaborations between first and second year undergraduate students and graduate students in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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