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Initial Publication Date: March 16, 2015
SERC has an extensive portfolio of projects that have been created, developed, and implemented in collaboration with many partners. Learn more about many of our current and past projects using the browse below.
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Project Focus
- Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges 1 match Focus on grand challenge problems that require multiple disciplinary strategies. This includes issues like climate change and the interconnected issues of food, energy and water. The solutions integrate STEM-informed approaches as well as wisdom from the social sciences, arts, humanities and other ways of knowing.
- Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches 1 match Focuses on one or more dimensions of how educational experiences are structured. This encompass topics such as curriculum design, informal education strategies, universal design for learning, and specific classroom approaches. It includes both educational research and applied practice. (Includes simple materials development.)
SERC Role
- Content Expertise 1 match A focus on SERC staff writing disciplinary content for a project. Many SERC staff members have advanced degrees and all can contribute a wide range of content knowledge to projects.
- Education Research 1 match A focus on facilitating or conducting research on what works in the STEM classroom across a variety of levels and contexts. Project foci include student assessment, spatial reasoning, teaching and learning practices, influence of professional development, influence of open education internet resources, influence of Communities of Practice, and levers of change in higher education.
- Evaluation 1 match SERC has deep experience in utilization-focused, evidence-based program evaluation. This can include a wide variety of methodologies, evaluation planning, and capacity building for project teams.
- Materials Development/Review 1 match A focus on supporting the creation of new pedagogic materials addressing some specific content area, pedagogic need, or educator audience. This can include aspects such as the technical infrastructure to support authoring, management of author teams, and facilitating expert review prior to publishing.
- Product Dissemination 1 match A focus on helping publicize and raise awareness of the outcomes, products, and findings of project work. This can include activities such as presentations at professional meetings, writing manuscripts, running webinars, and writing press releases.
- Website Hosting and Development 2 matches A focus on providing the technical infrastructure and support for a project's website. This can include activities such as creating new SERCkit tools, development of website architecture, and design of the website's look and feel.
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BASICS
The Business And Science: Integrated Curriculum for Sustainability (BASICS) team developed and pilot-tested transdisciplinary curricular modules and discipline-specific activities for undergraduate students that combine STEM, business, and other fields of knowledge, with a focus on the wicked problems of sustainability in a global economy. SERC leads the work on student assessment that measures student learning and attitudinal changes related to the BASICS curriculum and leads the work on disseminating the curriculum via the website.
The Business And Science: Integrated Curriculum for Sustainability (BASICS) team developed and pilot-tested transdisciplinary curricular modules and discipline-specific activities for undergraduate students that combine STEM, business, and other fields of knowledge, with a focus on the wicked problems of sustainability in a global economy. SERC leads the work on student assessment that measures student learning and attitudinal changes related to the BASICS curriculum and leads the work on disseminating the curriculum via the website.
Project Focus: Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges
SERC Role: Evaluation, Education Research, Content Expertise:Accessibility, Content Expertise, Website Hosting and Development
SERC Role: Evaluation, Education Research, Content Expertise:Accessibility, Content Expertise, Website Hosting and Development
Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics
The Starting Point: Econ project introduces economists to innovative teaching strategies, provides instructors with the tools to begin integrating and assessing these teaching strategies, and promotes the sharing of teaching innovations among instructors. SERC hosts and supports the project website.
The Starting Point: Econ project introduces economists to innovative teaching strategies, provides instructors with the tools to begin integrating and assessing these teaching strategies, and promotes the sharing of teaching innovations among instructors. SERC hosts and supports the project website.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Materials Development/Review, Product Dissemination
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Materials Development/Review, Product Dissemination