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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 7 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 15 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 14 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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Product 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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NICHE
This website provides a repository of resources and information for faculty from across the disciplines who are seeking to infuse numeracy into their course instruction. SERC supported the authors in developing this website and provide ongoing hosting.
This website provides a repository of resources and information for faculty from across the disciplines who are seeking to infuse numeracy into their course instruction. SERC supported the authors in developing this website and provide ongoing hosting.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Quantitative Skills
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences
Quantitative skills are an essential tool for both the geoscientist and the citizen. This site provides resources for faculty that include pedagogic methods, teaching resources, supporting materials for students and a discussion of the issues. SERC was the leader of the project, planned and implemented the professional development workshops that generated content for the project, and hosts the website.
Quantitative skills are an essential tool for both the geoscientist and the citizen. This site provides resources for faculty that include pedagogic methods, teaching resources, supporting materials for students and a discussion of the issues. SERC was the leader of the project, planned and implemented the professional development workshops that generated content for the project, and hosts the website.
Project Focus: Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches, Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind:Quantitative Skills
SERC Role: Professional Development, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Project Management/Implementation, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
SERC Role: Professional Development, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Project Management/Implementation, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership, Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
Humanities Education for Anti-Racism Literacy
The Humanities Education for Anti-Racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine (HEAL) project seeks to provide models and examples of transformative higher education to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogies in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. SERC hosts the project website and assists with product dissemination.
The Humanities Education for Anti-Racism Literacy in the Sciences and Medicine (HEAL) project seeks to provide models and examples of transformative higher education to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogies in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. SERC hosts the project website and assists with product dissemination.
Project Focus: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination
Science for Non-Scientists
This project shared a wealth of teaching materials from a general education course designed to introduce non-science majors to scientific ways of thinking; the course developed remarkably strong critical thinking skills. SERC provided a platform to post these resources for wider use.
This project shared a wealth of teaching materials from a general education course designed to introduce non-science majors to scientific ways of thinking; the course developed remarkably strong critical thinking skills. SERC provided a platform to post these resources for wider use.
Project Focus: Disciplinary Skills and Habits of Mind, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development
CUREnet
CUREnet supports networking among faculty developing, teaching, and assessing Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), to share CURE projects and resources, and to develop new tools and strategies for CURE instruction and assessment.
CUREnet supports networking among faculty developing, teaching, and assessing Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), to share CURE projects and resources, and to develop new tools and strategies for CURE instruction and assessment.
Project Focus: Connecting STEM Research to Education, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination, Materials Development/Review, Event Development/Facilitation
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Product Dissemination, Materials Development/Review, Event Development/Facilitation
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
Bridging to STEM Excellence
BTSE works to accelerate change in higher education and teacher preparation by developing 1) a bridge between institutional efforts to improve instruction and national initiatives offering programmatic support and 2) a community of practice increasing the interactions among and reach of the consortium organizations. SERC serves both in the leadership and the backbone for this network.
BTSE works to accelerate change in higher education and teacher preparation by developing 1) a bridge between institutional efforts to improve instruction and national initiatives offering programmatic support and 2) a community of practice increasing the interactions among and reach of the consortium organizations. SERC serves both in the leadership and the backbone for this network.
Project Focus: Network and Community Building , Supporting Student Success, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Changing Education Systems
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Evaluation, Organizational Backbone, Professional Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Community Building/Organization, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Project Management/Implementation, Website Hosting and Development, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Evaluation, Organizational Backbone, Professional Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Community Building/Organization, Project Lead (PI/Co-PI), Project Management/Implementation, Website Hosting and Development, Strategic Planning and Thought Partnership
Nanotechnology in STEM
Through the NNCI, the Nanotechnology in STEM website is hosted on SERC in order to help alleviate the lack of nanotechnology resources in both smaller academic institutions, as well as in the small to medium size commercial sector. SERC has supported this project by providing workshop development and implementation expertise and assessing the ways in which the website meets stakeholders' needs and expectations, the extent to which the project outcomes are being realized.
Through the NNCI, the Nanotechnology in STEM website is hosted on SERC in order to help alleviate the lack of nanotechnology resources in both smaller academic institutions, as well as in the small to medium size commercial sector. SERC has supported this project by providing workshop development and implementation expertise and assessing the ways in which the website meets stakeholders' needs and expectations, the extent to which the project outcomes are being realized.
SERC Role: Evaluation, Community Building/Organization, Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Product Dissemination
Climate Education in an Age of Media
The CAM project developed approaches to bring student media production into climate change education in ways that are engaging, empowering, and can be readily adopted in a wide range of instructional environments. SERC partnered to host this collection that includes guidance on supporting student production of climate change videos as well as example student videos.
The CAM project developed approaches to bring student media production into climate change education in ways that are engaging, empowering, and can be readily adopted in a wide range of instructional environments. SERC partnered to host this collection that includes guidance on supporting student production of climate change videos as well as example student videos.
Project Focus: Interdisciplinary Grand Challenges , Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development
SERC Role: Product Dissemination, Website Hosting and Development
Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation
Following on to the NextGen-WA STEM Teacher Preparation Project, this website is designed to provide a curated set of resources for people working in the STEM K-12 teacher preparation space. Resources in this collection include peer-reviewed publications, white papers, descriptions of innovative curricula and courses, activities, tools and case studies written by STEM teacher preparation experts from around the country. These resources are designed to be useful for STEM teacher preparation stakeholders across the United States and beyond. SERC provided website support as well as website logistical support for project-led events.
Following on to the NextGen-WA STEM Teacher Preparation Project, this website is designed to provide a curated set of resources for people working in the STEM K-12 teacher preparation space. Resources in this collection include peer-reviewed publications, white papers, descriptions of innovative curricula and courses, activities, tools and case studies written by STEM teacher preparation experts from around the country. These resources are designed to be useful for STEM teacher preparation stakeholders across the United States and beyond. SERC provided website support as well as website logistical support for project-led events.
Project Focus: Changing Education Systems, Pedagogy and Teaching Approaches
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Product Dissemination
SERC Role: Website Hosting and Development, Event Development/Facilitation, Product Dissemination