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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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- Career Support for Educators 4 matches Focus on supporting educators in their careers. This includes pre-service and in-service professional development for k-12 teachers, support for college educators aimed at different career stages and elements like leadership development.
- Changing Education Systems 6 matches Focus on how to make positive change in education systems. This includes departmental change, institutional change, as well as other systemic change across institutions and disciplines.
- Connecting STEM Research to Education 3 matches Focuses on bringing current STEM research practice and knowledge into education. This includes research experiences for student such as field work, CURE's and summer research experiences (like REU's). It also includes strategies and resources for bringing current research literature, practices and knowledge into the classroom and informal science communication.
- Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind 14 matches Focuses on developing students' ability to think and act with disciplinary expertise. This encompasses concepts like systems thinking, quantitative reasoning, field-based learning, spatial and temporal thinking, data visualization and manipulation.
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice 7 matches Focuses on one or more dimensions of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice (DEIJ). This encompasses a wide range of topics including anti-racism, accessibility, ethics, and broadening access to education.
- Engaging Students with Communities 2 matches Focus on connecting students and education processes with broader communities and civic issues.
- Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges 3 matches 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.
- Network and Community Building 3 matches Focus on supporting the development and nurturing of networks of individuals. This includes community visioning efforts, supporting communities of practices, and understanding and supporting the growth of networks.
- Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches 11 matches 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.)
- Supporting Student Success 3 matches Focus on how to support students across their full education career. This includes fundamental educational access issues, attending to the whole student, academic and professional skill development, and facilitating the transition from education to career and citizenship.
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36 matchesProduct Dissemination: 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.
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TIDeS
The Teaching with Investigation and Design in Science (TIDeS) project is supporting faculty to develop and implement curricular materials for introductory undergraduate science courses that focus on science investigation and engineering design. The aim of the project is to prepare future teachers by exposing them to discourse-filled, context-rich, inclusive classrooms on the premise that teachers should learn science the way they are expected to teach it. SERC is involved both through support of the rubric-driven curriculum development process as well as a multi-faceted evaluation making use of qualitative and quantitative methods to assess project objectives.
The Teaching with Investigation and Design in Science (TIDeS) project is supporting faculty to develop and implement curricular materials for introductory undergraduate science courses that focus on science investigation and engineering design. The aim of the project is to prepare future teachers by exposing them to discourse-filled, context-rich, inclusive classrooms on the premise that teachers should learn science the way they are expected to teach it. SERC is involved both through support of the rubric-driven curriculum development process as well as a multi-faceted evaluation making use of qualitative and quantitative methods to assess project objectives.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Authentic Science Experience
SERC Role: Evaluation, Product Dissemination, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Materials Development/Review, Content Expertise:Accessibility
SERC Role: Evaluation, Product Dissemination, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Materials Development/Review, Content Expertise:Accessibility
Geo-Needs
Geo-Needs was an NSF-funded project that sought to explore barriers and opportunities for enhancing geoscience instruction at 2YC and MSI institutions so that these student have greater opportunities for employment in the geosciences. SERC hosts the project website, including the final report, as well as facilitated the workshops that informed the project and report.
Geo-Needs was an NSF-funded project that sought to explore barriers and opportunities for enhancing geoscience instruction at 2YC and MSI institutions so that these student have greater opportunities for employment in the geosciences. SERC hosts the project website, including the final report, as well as facilitated the workshops that informed the project and report.
Project Focus: Supporting Student Success, Changing Education Systems, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Product Dissemination
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Product Dissemination
Data and Model Driven Hydrology Education
This project developed an online system where undergraduate instructors can share and repurpose data-centered hydrology teaching units. SERC helped develop the curriculum module system and hosts the website.
This project developed an online system where undergraduate instructors can share and repurpose data-centered hydrology teaching units. SERC helped develop the curriculum module system and hosts the website.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Authentic Science Experience, Working with Data
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Product Dissemination, Materials Development/Review
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Content Expertise:Pedagogy, Product Dissemination, Materials Development/Review
National Institute for Faculty Equity
Minorities and women, minority women in particular, are underrepresented in academia, even more so in the STEM disciplines: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Members of these underrepresented groups represent an untapped resource. The National Institute for Faculty Equity seeks to address this persistent problem, in part by institutionalizing the professional development and career success of women and minorities in STEM. This website offers resources for underrepresented faculty in engineering, including presentations and from the Minority Faculty Development workshops and the Cross-Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty conference. SERC hosts the project's materials as well as provided a web platform for project personnel to use for annual events.
Minorities and women, minority women in particular, are underrepresented in academia, even more so in the STEM disciplines: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Members of these underrepresented groups represent an untapped resource. The National Institute for Faculty Equity seeks to address this persistent problem, in part by institutionalizing the professional development and career success of women and minorities in STEM. This website offers resources for underrepresented faculty in engineering, including presentations and from the Minority Faculty Development workshops and the Cross-Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty conference. SERC hosts the project's materials as well as provided a web platform for project personnel to use for annual events.
Project Focus: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Career Support for Educators
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Professional Development, Product Dissemination, Event Development/Facilitation
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Professional Development, Product Dissemination, Event Development/Facilitation
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
Earth Exploration Toolbook
Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) is a collection of online Earth system science activities. Each activity, or chapter, introduces one or more scientific data sets and analysis tools that enables students to explore some aspect of the Earth system. SERC collaborated on the development of the toolset and curricular structure for this project and host its website.
Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) is a collection of online Earth system science activities. Each activity, or chapter, introduces one or more scientific data sets and analysis tools that enables students to explore some aspect of the Earth system. SERC collaborated on the development of the toolset and curricular structure for this project and host its website.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Working with Data
SERC Role: Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Materials Development/Review
SERC Role: Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development:Online Tool Development, Materials Development/Review