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 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
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
The conference on Transforming Institutions: 21st Century Undergraduate STEM Education brings together change leaders from academia, government, and industry to explore research-based practices, strategies and challenges for institutional transformation, especially as related to STEM education.
Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching Excellence | Facilities | Purdue University | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Technology | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | 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
The Curriculum Innovation Fund is Princeton University's principal resource for supporting innovation in the undergraduate curriculum. With the endorsement of their department or program, faculty members may submit proposals for new or reimagined courses in any subject at any level.
Access | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching Excellence | Facilities | Princeton University | 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 McGraw Teaching Seminar is a year-long opportunity for Princeton graduate student and faculty participants to engage collaboratively with current research on a range of issues in teaching and learning in higher education.
Facilities | Princeton University | Articulated Learning Goals | Pedagogy | Technology | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Educational Practices | All | Scaffolding
Princeton's Science and Engineering Education Initiative aims to inspire and prepare all undergraduates, irrespective of their majors, to become scientifically and technologically literate citizens and decision-makers.
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