The Center for Advancing Mathematics, Science and Engineering Education (CAMSEE) at UCSD is a research, learning, and teaching community that connects individuals across mathematics, science, and engineering to advance undergraduate learning and to produce scholarly educational research.
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The mission of an AAU-UCD partnership is to foster evidence-based, sustainable innovation in STEM instruction through development of cultures of data and evidence around instruction and learning that encourage experimentation, build urgency, and enable change.
Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching Excellence | Biology | University of California, Davis | Articulated Learning Goals | Chemistry | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Pedagogy | Technology | Assessments | Engineering | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Data | Educational Practices | Math | Physics | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
UC Davis created the Educational Effectiveness Hub to enhance student learning, maximize instructional value, and improve retention rates and time to graduation for all students.
Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching Excellence | Facilities | University of California, Davis | Articulated Learning Goals | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Pedagogy | Technology | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Data | Educational Practices | All | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
The UA AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Project has three primary goals: Redesign courses in five disciplines to include more evidence-based strategies, shift the culture at UA toward greater emphasis on collaborative active-learning pedagogies, and explore and develop Collaborative Learning Spaces (CLS).
Biology | The University of Arizona | Chemistry | Pedagogy | Engineering | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Educational Practices | Physics | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
The Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) at The University of Texas at Austin has transformed the undergraduate science education experience by merging the teaching and research missions of the research university.
The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University began a pilot program to develop the communication skills of graduate Teaching Assistants. The goal was to improve undergraduates’ experience in a gateway course, with the long-term goal of bolstering retention of students in the STEM disciplines.
Biology | Stony Brook University - The State University of New York | Chemistry | Pedagogy | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Educational Practices | Physics | Cultural Change
Stony Brook University's CESAME has a unique model of jointly hiring tenure track science education faculty in STEM departments.
Stony Brook University - The State University of New York | Educational Practices | All | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
IMPACT is Purdue effort that aims to provide faculty development and support to redesign courses to be more student-centered, including the articulation of learning objectives, appropriate design of course assessments, and the effective use of instructional technologies and engaged pedagogies.
Facilities | Purdue University | Articulated Learning Goals | Pedagogy | Technology | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Data | Educational Practices | All | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
LabMatch 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).
Biology | Princeton University | Pedagogy | Engineering | Faculty Professional Development | Educational Practices | Scaffolding
FSI provides invited students with an early opportunity to experience Princeton's curriculum, work closely with members of our faculty from a range of academic disciplines and fields, and engage in a vibrant community of highly motivated peers.
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