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Current Partners

SERC has established Pedagogic Service partnerships with digital libraries, campus based teaching and learning centers, and other education projects. SERC's current partners are listed below.

These partnerships are actively engaged in developing new pedagogic service portals. You can view "in-progress" sites, which reveal some of Pedagogic Service Project structures by clicking on the links below. These projects are in various states of development.

• Carleton College Learning and Teaching Center coordinates programs for new and experienced faculty, circulates new information about teaching theories and strategies, and helps to identify problems and suggest solutions for classroom practice. Its teaching activity portal showcases teaching on campus. As of January 2008 this initiative has:

• Added seven new activities to the shared collection.
• Authored a new "Quantitative Writing" module available through the pedagogic module library.
• Initiated development of a new "Teaching with Visuality" module to be added to the shared collection.
• Drafted an additional 4 new activities for the shared collection.


• CAUSE (The Consortium for Undergraduate Statistics Education) has launched a pedagogic service portal to serve statistics educators. As of September 2007 this initiative has:
  
  • Added 26 new activities to the shared collection.
  • Completed two new pedagogic modules (Testing Conjectures and Teaching with Data Simulations) for the shared collection
  • Supported improvements to the Cooperative Learning module.
  • Utilized six of the pre-existing pedagogic modules.
  • Hosted an activity developers' workshop.
  • Initated planning of a virtual activity developers workhsop for early summer 2008.
  
  

• The Center for Teaching and Learning-Stanford University supports effective communication of knowledge and the love of learning by faculty in the classroom, by graduate students in their roles as apprentice scholar/teachers, and by undergraduates as they take their place in the community of scholars. As of October 2007 this initiative has:
  
  • Hosted a workshop to engage faculty and graduate student teams in authoring visualizations and activities that use them.
  • Begun an intiative to redesign introductory geoscience courses that will yield both course and activity pages for the collections.
  
  

• comPADRE Digital Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education is a growing network of educational resource collections supporting teachers and students in Physics and Astronomy. comPADRE has launched a pedagogic service portal. As of September 2007 this initiative has:
  
  • Added 26 new activities to the shared collection.
  • Utilized five pedagogic modules from the shared collection.
  • Utilized 16 pre-existing teaching activities from the shared collection.
  • Hosted an activity developers' workshop.
  • Initated planning of a vitural activity developers workshop to be held July 7-11, 2008.
  • Initiated development of a new "Galactic Laboratory" module with a collection of introductory labs for faculty teaching 100 level liberal arts astronomy students.
  
  
• Enduring Resources for Earth Sciences Education (ERESE) is a collaboration between middle and high school teachers and Earth scientists that promotes the development and use of teaching materials incorporating state-of-the-art geoscience research results. ERESE is using the pedagogic service to share teaching activities that use ERESE resources and to link them to pedagogic methods. As of January 2008 this initiative has:
  
  • defined a focus on hotspots and related ocean science
  • developed an initial set of activities using ERESE resources
  • planned an activity developers' workshop.
  • Initiated development of a new "Inductive Inquiry" module to be added to the shared collection.
  
  
• MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) seeks to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into courses. As of September 2007 this initiative has:
  
  • Developed three pedagogic service portals to serve MERLOT's Biology, Mathematics, and Information Technology communities and initiated work on a fourth in Modern Languages.
  • Developed 24 new activities.
  • Utilized five pre-existing pedagogic modules from the shared resource collection.
  • Initiated development of a tool to facilitate user browsing of content held across multiple learning material and pedagogic service portal collections.
  • Established plans to expand the activity collection and develop new pedagogic service portals for other MERLOT communities in the year ahead.
  • Integrated the new activity collection into MERLOT's assignment collection.
  
  
• Minnesota Science Teachers Education Project MnSTEP provides convenient, relevant, standards-based summer science institutes to teachers throughout Minnesota. As of January 2008 MnSTEP has:
  
  • Launched a new portal.
  • Completed 182 activities for the shared resource collection.
  
  
• Microbial Life Educational Resources promotes visibility of on-line resources for use in the teaching of microbiology. As of January 2008 this initiative has:
  
  • Launched a new portal.
  • Utilized the shared Socratic Questioning, Teaching With Data, and Game-Based Learning modules.
  • Added six new activities to the shared collection.
  
  
• National Numeracy Network envisions a society in which all citizens possess the power and habit of mind to search out quantitative information, critique it, reflect upon it, and apply it in their public, personal and professional lives. The Network promotes education that integrates quantitative skills across all disciplines and at all levels. As of February 2008 this initiative has:
  
  • Planned a workshop to generate quantitative writing activities for the shared collection.
  
  
• The Ohio Learning Network is a consortium of 81 colleges and universities, OLN helps Ohioans gain more education, promotes using technology in teaching and learning, and builds Ohio's capacity and effectiveness through statewide shared resources. As of September 2007 this initiative has:
  
  • Secured funding to develop a new "Authentic Writing for STEM" module and associated activities for the shared collection.
  
  
• The Starting Point Project led by SERC built and piloted the initial Pedagogic Resource Library with 27 modules and over 500 activities. As of March '07 SERC has:
  
  • Utilized the shared "Spreadsheets Across The Curriculum" module and its geoscience example. This module was developed by Len Vacher (Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education).

  
  
• Spreadsheets Across The Curriculum project and the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education have utilized the pedagogic service to build a library of PowerPoint/Excel resources. These resources promote quantitative literacy by facilitating mathematical problem solving beyond the mathematics classroom. As of March 2007 this project has:
  
  • Launched a new portal.
  • Added a new pedagogic module to the shared collection.
  • Added 17 new activities to the shared collection.
  • Drafted an additional 29 activities for the shared collection.
  
  
• Visionlearning is an innovative educational resource designed for students, teachers, parents or anyone interested in learning. As of January 2007 this Pedagogic Service initiative has developed plans to add:
  
  • A new "Teaching with News" module to the shared collection.
  • Develop an undetermined number of new activities for the shared collection.

Additional partnerships will be developed with:

• eduCommons
• Scott Simkins, North Carolina A&T State University, and Mark Maier, Glendale Community College, to develop an Economics Pedagogic Service portal.
• Wright Center for Science Education

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