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The CU-SEI program has had a broad array of impacts. Across the program as a whole, over 100 faculty have been impacted by the SEI, with over 90 having modified their instruction based on the SEI efforts.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | DataMathematics Teacher Education Partnership: Actively Learning Mathematics Research Action Cluster: A nationwide network of 38 teams — spanning 30 states, 69 universities, 87 school systems, 9 community colleges, and a variety of other interested institutions — working collaboratively to reform…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Educational Practices | Faculty Professional DevelopmentIn 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 ExcellenceGeologists from the University of Rochester have discovered a new species of bird in the Canadian Arctic, approximately 90 million years old, which offers further evidence of an intense warming event during the late Cretaceous period.
To provide quick, easy-to-use information on the role of U.S. research universities in conducting basic research, AAU has published a new data and policy brief, Basic Scientific and Engineering Research at Universities.
Innovation and Competitiveness | Issue BriefKlipfel turned a pair of gloves into a device that allows users to compose, produce and record music.
Scientists at UC Boulder Sleep and Development Laboratory recently found that 4- 5-year-olds who go to bed later and are exposed to brighter nighttime light experience delays in the timing of their biological clock. That, in turn, could lead to night-owl schedules that are associated with a host of…
The STEM Institutional Transformation Action Research (SITAR) Project, housed in the Center for STEM Learning, aims to improve undergraduate STEM education by professionalizing educational practice through measurement, assessment, and cultural change.
Pedagogy | Educational Practices | Scaffolding | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Cultural Change | Leadership CommitmentTRESTLE is a 7-institution NSF-funded project to support improvements in undergraduate STEM education through (1) supporting course design projects, (2) enhancing educational expertise in departments, and (3) building communities within and across campuses to enhance the impact of local experts.
Pedagogy | Educational Practices | Scaffolding | Faculty Professional Development | Cultural Change | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceFilling the day with natural light and the night with true darkness may help us fall asleep earlier and potentially deliver other health benefits.