Member Profile: CU Science Education Intiative

Username: cusei

Short organization name: CU-SEI

Contact: Wendy.Adams@colorado.edu

Web page: http://www.colorado.edu/sei/index.html

Location: Colorado, USA

Author of: 13 Modules and 1 Course (view statistics)

Coauthors: UBC Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative

About this organization:

The CU Science Education Initiative is…

a university-supported, 5-year, $5M project to improve how we teach science to all undergraduate students. The project focuses on:

1) supporting faculty to approach the teaching of science as a science, that is to:

* Identify difficulties in and develop an understanding of student learning by using or developing research-based tools/techniques to monitor student learning.

* Use instructional approaches guided by research on learning and measures of student learning.

* Develop and utilize beneficial educational technology.

* Archive and disseminate proven methods and materials.

2) supporting institutional change through departmentally-driven efforts to achieve sustained improvements in their students’ learning.