Welcome! We hope you enjoyed our video: Leveraging This Moment to Transform STEM Education. The AAAS-IUSE Initiative supports faculty and administrators in undergraduate STEM education by disseminating research and knowledge about STEM teaching, learning, equity, and systemic change. We are grateful to the community of IUSE PIs, Co-PIs and STEM education experts who shared their creative strategies with us. We also want to give a special thanks to our interviewees for sharing their innovative projects in our video. You can learn more about the projects featured in this video on the Lessons Learned section of our website.

We’re interested in hearing how you think this time of disruption will influence undergraduate STEM education in the future. What teaching strategies have you developed during this time that can be adapted to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion going forward? What practices have you seen or implemented that hold promise for improving undergraduate STEM education?

Inspirational. Thanks for sharing these stories of creative approaches to STEM learning!

Inspirational. Thanks for sharing these stories of creative approaches to STEM learning!

Thanks for the amazing effort to be intentional in the opportunity to learn from what has certainly been an unwanted but real experiment in education over the last 16 months. I deeply appreciate the interest in "crowd sourcing" learning from a broad variety of efforts and agree that there is real potential for such efforts to result in more permanent transformations of how STEM teacher leaders are prepared. 

As you are advancing this effort, I wonder what it calls up for you in terms of sustainable and at scale approaches to continue sharing learning. What is your effort teaching you about how networks of learners are created and what would you recommend, based on what you are finding, to organizations like the NSF and AAAS with respect to providing increasingly effective, dynamic approaches to supporting college STEM teachers improve their practice? 

Really appreciate this project!

Cathy

Thanks so much for this question Catherine! During the last 16 months we have witnessed creative and innovative approaches and strategies to deal with the delays and disruptions to STEM teaching and learning. Some of the more promising efforts we have seen are the partnerships and collaborations between STEM faculty and industry, non-profits and community organizations who have reached out to support students. Some of these include subsidizing remote learning and teaching and resources, especially for labs that were shut down, and converting research and internships to remote or virtual formats to assist students in staying on track with expertise development. While we have definitely seen some challenges over the last year, we have been able to leverage the virtual environment to create communities of support and expand the opportunities for STEM faculty to share their research and best practices beyond publications and in more real-time formats that are timely regarding addressing student needs. We have seen some rich connections made between STEM faculty and the communities in which they reside which could be expanded and built upon moving forward to better sustain and scale efforts to support and transform undergraduate STEM education. 

 Amazing!  Very informative and motivational.  I appreciated that the program is for undergraduate STEM education and students enrolled in those programs, but I wonder if the resources that have been developed have been publicized for high school teachers that may find use for them as well?  I am suspecting that many of the resources could be used to help high school teachers broaden that pipeline to STEM fields through similar strategies.

I am also curious as to how many institutions beyond the three highlighted in this program are participating in the program as well.   Thanks again.

It's often said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste."  This video provides a clear and inspiring example of how the crisis led your community to come together and create powerful changes that will endure to improve education into the future.  I also appreciated the many voices in the video and your evidence-informed emphasis on impact.  Kudos!

Thank you for sharing information in your video and Abstract.  We continue to explore ways to positively impact teaching and learning strategies that improve students grasp, retention, and application of STEM course content. Your content helps.

Thanks for your comment, John! We're glad to hear you found this content helpful. Our IUSE community works hard to identify those positive strategies that make STEM teaching and learning more inclusive and accessible. 

More information on the strategies featured in this video can be found on Lessons Learned During COVID-19:Transforming the Future of STEM Education (with more strategies coming soon). Our community also contributes to a monthly blog series focused on empowering evidence based systemic change to advance equity and a workshop series that explores supporting students and faculty online, adapting in-person teaching for an online environment, and promoting equity through pedagogical approaches.

This is a great video and motivator to visit the IUSE website for other practices! I keep hearing people talk about "getting back to normal" when, I believe, there is a new normal that is a more 21st century pedagogy that will increase diversity and belongingness in STEM. Thanks for the video!

Thanks for the creative student engagement strategies!

Hello,

The STEM Leaders Program (SLP) at OSU was previously funded in 2014 through an NSF IUSE # 1432810. In 2019, the SLP successfully transitioned from grant to university funding through a collaborative partnership between the Colleges of Agricultural Sciences, Engineering, and Science, and the Office of Undergraduate Education. To date, almost four hundred students have completed our program.

During these challenging times, we listened to our students and stakeholders to address the needs that are important to them—in this case, launching and adding to our on-going program, the STEM Buddies initiative. We appreciate the leadership of our SLP Program Coordinator, Stephanie Ramos, and the work of our student program assistants in making this possible. We hope you enjoy our contribution, and we look forward to supporting current and future STEM Leader students.

You can find more about our program here: https://stemleaders.oregonstate.edu/

Hello,

The STEM Leaders Program (SLP) at OSU was previously funded in 2014 through an NSF IUSE # 1432810. In 2019, the SLP successfully transitioned from grant to university funding through a collaborative partnership between the Colleges of Agricultural Sciences, Engineering, and Science, and the Office of Undergraduate Education. To date, almost four hundred students have completed our program.

During these challenging times, we listened to our students and stakeholders to address the needs that are important to them—in this case, launching and adding to our on-going program, the STEM Buddies initiative. We appreciate the leadership of our SLP Program Coordinator, Stephanie Ramos, and the work of our student program assistants in making this possible. We hope you enjoy our contribution, and we look forward to supporting current and future STEM Leader students.

You can find more about our program here: https://stemleaders.oregonstate.edu/