UKanTeach supports effective STEM learning, effective communication about STEM, supports service learning, while exploring secondary mathematics and science teaching as an option at graduation. If you wish to be a better science communicator or teach secondary (grades 6-12) math or science, then UKanTeach can help.
Access | Biology | Facilities | The University of Kansas | Articulated Learning Goals | Chemistry | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Pedagogy | Assessments | Engineering | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Data | Educational Practices | Math | Physics | All | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
UC Davis is developing an internal Data Visibility and Instructional Network (DVIN) that aims to understand, visualize and optimize the University instructional system by linking student data, instructional practice, learning gains, attitudinal shifts and longer term student outcomes.
University of California, Davis | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Pedagogy | Technology | Assessments | Data | All
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
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 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.
Access | Princeton University | Articulated Learning Goals | Pedagogy | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Data | Educational Practices | All | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
Northwestern 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.
Access | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching Excellence | Biology | Facilities | Northwestern University | Articulated Learning Goals | Chemistry | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Pedagogy | Technology | Assessments | Leadership Commitment | Data | Educational Practices | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
Michigan 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.
Biology | Michigan State University | Articulated Learning Goals | Chemistry | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Pedagogy | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Data | Educational Practices | Physics | Scaffolding | Cultural Change