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How can we support student outcomes in undergraduate STEM courses and create an engaging learning environment? In this workshop, speakers discuss successes in implementing active learning through grassroots and policy approaches. First, Dr. Jessica Rosenberg shares takeaways from the grassroot effort at her university to implement active learning into STEM courses. Next, Dr. Wendy Smith identifies key policy levers to improve student outcomes and encourage active learning in first-year STEM courses. Overall, this workshop provides different approaches to implement active learning and improve student success in undergraduate STEM courses.
Links & Resources Shared by the Audience During the Workshop:
- Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)
- PALM Network: Promoting Active Learning and Networking
- The California State University: Read to Learn
- Course Source: Evidence-Based Teaching Resources for Undergraduate Biology and Physics
- National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
- Inquiry and Gender Inequity in the Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom
- Racial Hierarchy and Masculine Space: Participatory in/Equity in Computational Physics Classrooms
- Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks at The University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- Interactive Simulations for Science and Math, University of Colorado Boulder
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