Resources

This initiative compiles materials that help STEM education leaders create improvements in their classrooms, transform institutions, and advance research.
Review our staff picks for timely resources related to pressing issues or use the search and categorization features to browse research, reports, and other materials.

Staff Picks

  • Characterizing Student Perspectives on Departmental Culture: The Student DELTA Survey

    Traditional Student Experience MetricsNational reports have revealed that although undergraduate education has undergone significant reform, students are not g…

  • The Value of Community Colleges: Bridging Gaps and Building Pathways to Increase Student Success

    (Video credit: CCC Marcom)Innovative Evidence-based Strategies to Disrupt the Current Community College NarrativeI was honored to be invited to talk at a confe…

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  • iVisit: Using Virtual Humans in 360 Immersive Digital Site Visits of Complex Spatiotemporal Contexts

    Need: Site visits have been a tool utilized by STEM educators to engage students in active learning, assist traditional lessons, and attain stronger and deeper…

  • Improving Online Learning with Tutorial Dialog Videos

    Online courses have become a cost-effective, flexible alternative form of delivery for college-level courses, especially during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pa…

  • Improving Solid Mechanics Education using Multi-Scale Material Characterization and Visualization

    Undergraduate solid mechanics courses can assist students to understand how materials deform under various loading conditions. Additionally, solid mechanics is…

  • Improving Student Learning in Power Engineering – The Use of Concept Maps as Evaluation Tool

    Need: Today’s electric power grid is an intelligent and interconnected system, characterized by larger amount of renewable and distributed energy resources, sm…

  • ExplainIt: Improving Student Learning with Explanation-based Classroom Response Systems

    1. NeedThis project aims to create an innovative explanation-based classroom response system, ExplainIt, that provides real-time support to undergraduate STEM …

  • Exploratory Learning Activities in Undergraduate STEM Courses

    Need: Exploratory learning is an active-learning technique that has been shown to improve students’ conceptual understanding. Exploratory learning reverses the…

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AAAS-IUSE is looking for resources that will help principal investigators, faculty and other education leaders improve undergraduate STEM education. If there is a type of resource you would like to see more of, or a specific resource you would like to recommend, please reach out below.