NSF Video Collection As we begin 2016, highlighted here is a showcase of 3-minute videos with online discussion that illustrate innovative work to improve science, math, engineering, and computer science education collected through a cross-center NSF event hosted in 2015. This year’s 2016 showcase theme is “broadening participation and increasing access to quality STEM and…
Open Educational Research (OER) PhET simulations are open educational resources available for faculty to use. This program founded by Carl Wieman at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has grown over the past decade with additional faculty involvement and support from a team of developers to create the growing library which hosts over 100 simulations. Click…
November Issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education Critiques of course evaluations came this year from Carl E. Wieman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, who cast doubt on their validity and reliability. He proposed that professors should instead complete an inventory of the research-based teaching practices they…
August Issue of Science Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate students are often encouraged to maximize their engagement with supervised research and minimize teaching obligations. However, the process of teaching students engaged in inquiry provides practice in the application of important research skills. Using a performance rubric, we compared the quality of methodological skills…
Published by Purdue University Press The book builds on the authors’ national reputations at the forefront of transformative undergraduate education research, and provides an overview of the context and challenges in STEM higher education. Contributed chapters describe programs and research in this area, reflect lessons from many perspectives, and describe suggested next steps in the…
Neil Garg, professor and vice chair for education in UCLA’s department of chemistry and biochemistry, has been selected as the 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching California Professor of the Year. He was honored at the U.S. Professors of the Year awards banquet and congressional reception in Washington, D.C. in November. Garg’s innovative teaching techniques help his students…