This project will restructure a traditional Precalculus Course by clustering the standard concepts into a “Big Ideas structure”–adding coherence and deeper meaning to the central concepts of the course.
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This project will provide scalable, meaningful exposure to engineering design to lower-division students by creating online game modules that will cover the basic steps of the engineering design process.
This project designs materials to help both instructors and students to see science as an expansive and inclusive set of practices. It explicitly defines scientific competence as participation in these practices.
This project supports mathematics faculty to participate in an intensive, networked, Reading Apprenticeship professional learning program focused on apprenticing students into advanced mathematics literacies by designing text-based lessons (text=words, problems, or graphs) where disciplinary thinking and problem solving are modeled and practiced through metacognitive conversations.
This project aims to improve Computer Science education through the development of Coding Community, an online, inclusive, and hands-on tool for coding classes that connects a diverse population of students and leverages students’ modern perspectives to communicate concepts with examples and explanations that their peers can relate to and understand.
This project will support faculty instruction and student learning in introductory biology courses by developing a Community of Practice (CoP) to boost student achievement and to narrow observed equity gaps via faculty professional development in active, student-centered teaching practices.
The project team will center discrete math courses on activities such as group-worthy tasks and team-based adaptive learning in order to increase student sense of belonging and increase students’ course success.
This project provides opportunities for STEM faculty to increase student engagement in online introductory courses through the development of face-to-face learning periods that leverage evidence-based teaching practices aimed at building students’ sense of belonging in the online course environment and closing achievement gaps traditionally seen for underrepresented students.
The project team will help students develop a growth mindset, improve persistence and overcome stereotype threat by developing video-based worked examples and virtual tutor simulations that include culturally relevant situations and examples, featuring realistic scenarios that our diverse student body finds familiar.
This project intends to create a sequence of courses in Data Science that include online modules that aim to build bridges between data science and the physical sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the arts, modeled on established pedagogical approaches such as Project Based Learning (PBL).
