SERC

Science Education Resource Center
at Carleton College

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Pathways to Institutional Change

A resource page on systemic institutional change in STEM education within liberal arts colleges, detailing strategic planning, collaboration, data use, and resource allocation to achieve sustainable improvements in student learning and institutional transformation.

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• ASCN Community Conversation: Building and Sustaining a Faculty Mentor Constellation
  In today's complex university landscape, no single person can successfully guide your research pipeline, perfect your teaching pedagogy, decipher department politics, and preserve your work-life balance. This fast-paced 75-minute interactive workshop from ASCN helps faculty members map, identify, and secure the multi-layered network of mentors needed for career advancement, research support, and work-life balance.
• Webinar: Teaching 3D visualization skills through Visible Geology webinar
  

  Join us for an interactive webinar showcasing example lessons using the freely available Visible Geology web-based applications. We'll introduce a suite of new, peer-reviewed teaching activities designed for structural geology, sedimentology/stratigraphy, and field methods.

• Workshop: Developing Activities for Flumes and Stream Tables
  

  This 2-session virtual workshop, sponsored by the Emriver Educational Resources project, will focus on helping educators develop ideas for teaching with flumes and stream tables into implementable teaching activities.

• Revamped For Higher Ed Portal
  SERC's For Higher Ed portal has been updated and refreshed with new resources from across the SERC portfolio! The portal provides faculty, department chairs, and others with direct access to resources to improve teaching practice and strengthen programs and systems.
• Workshop for Heads and Chairs at AGU
  

  This one-day workshop provides an opportunity for leaders of geoscience departments to come together to learn, share, and build community to collectively strengthen geoscience programs and departments.

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What's New at SERC

Cutting Edge Exemplary Collection

The Exemplary Collection showcases the best online teaching activities relevant to Earth educators as scored by peer review. The collection continues to grow as new activities are submitted and reviewed so check back regularly!

Accelerating Systemic Change Network

he Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) is a network of individuals and institutions, formed with the goal of more quickly advancing STEM education programs. Our unique approach is to bring together those who are researching systemic change at higher education institutions, with those who are making systemic change happen at their individual institutions.

BASICS - Business and Science: Integrated Curriculum for Sustainability

Business And Science: Integrated Curriculum for Sustainability (BASICS) has developed transdisciplinary curriculum modules for undergraduate students that combine STEM and business and focus on the wicked problems of sustainability in a global economy.