Free NSF IUSE Webinar for Geoscieces Community - October 2, 2014
published Sep 29, 2014 3:17pmTwo former geoscience rotators (Jeff Ryan and Jill Singer) in the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) are collaborating with the Virtual Faculty Collaborative (VFC), a partnership between AAAS, Louisiana State University, and Higher Education Services, to offer a Webinar to discuss the newly released IUSE Program. The Webinar is intended to provide information to the geosciences community.
The IUSE Webinar for Geosciences will be held from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. on October 2, 2014 Eastern Time.
The webinar will be divided into two parts. If you attended the Webinar that provided a program overview and offered general advice (conducted in early September), the first hour of this Webinar will be a repeat of the same information. The second hour of the Webinar (3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.) will be information directed to the geosciences community with examples drawing from geosciences disciplines and information most relevant to the geosciences.
For both hours of the Webinar, participants will have the opportunity to submit written questions that will be answered by Dr. Keith Sverdrup, the NSF/DUE Program Director that handles geosciences proposals. A recorded version of the Webinar and other resources will be posted shortly after the Webinar.
To register for the Webinar, please access the application website (http://ehrweb01.aaas.org/stem-iwbw/iuse-geosciences/).
Enrollment will be limited to 60 participants.
The program has two tracks:
(1) Engaged Student Learning that focuses on design, development, and research studies that involve the creation, exploration, or implementation of tools, resources, and models that increase student engagement leading to measurable and lasting learning gains; and
(2) Institutional and Community Transformation that focuses on innovative approaches to substantially increase the propagation of highly effective methods of STEM teaching and learning.
Within each track there are two options based on scale of project and maturity of project: (i) Exploration and (ii) Design and Development.
Information about IUSE is found at: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505082&org=DUE&from=home.
WEBINAR TOPICS - NOTE: This Webinar will focus on exploratory proposals due in October. A later Webinar will focus on larger scale projects with a January, 2015 deadline.
Hour 1 will focus on:
Hour 2 will focus on:
If you have questions about registration, please email Yolanda George at ygeorge@aaas.org.
The IUSE Webinar for Geosciences will be held from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. on October 2, 2014 Eastern Time.
The webinar will be divided into two parts. If you attended the Webinar that provided a program overview and offered general advice (conducted in early September), the first hour of this Webinar will be a repeat of the same information. The second hour of the Webinar (3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.) will be information directed to the geosciences community with examples drawing from geosciences disciplines and information most relevant to the geosciences.
For both hours of the Webinar, participants will have the opportunity to submit written questions that will be answered by Dr. Keith Sverdrup, the NSF/DUE Program Director that handles geosciences proposals. A recorded version of the Webinar and other resources will be posted shortly after the Webinar.
To register for the Webinar, please access the application website (http://ehrweb01.aaas.org/stem-iwbw/iuse-geosciences/).
Enrollment will be limited to 60 participants.
BACKGROUND
NSF has released a new Program Description 14-588 titled, "Improving Undergraduate STEM Education" (IUSE). The IUSE program invites proposals that address immediate challenges and opportunities that are facing undergraduate STEM education, including those that anticipate new structures and new functions of the undergraduate learning and teaching enterprise (e.g., organizational changes, new methods for certification or credentialing, course re-conception, and cyberlearning).The program has two tracks:
(1) Engaged Student Learning that focuses on design, development, and research studies that involve the creation, exploration, or implementation of tools, resources, and models that increase student engagement leading to measurable and lasting learning gains; and
(2) Institutional and Community Transformation that focuses on innovative approaches to substantially increase the propagation of highly effective methods of STEM teaching and learning.
Within each track there are two options based on scale of project and maturity of project: (i) Exploration and (ii) Design and Development.
Information about IUSE is found at: http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505082&org=DUE&from=home.
WEBINAR TOPICS - NOTE: This Webinar will focus on exploratory proposals due in October. A later Webinar will focus on larger scale projects with a January, 2015 deadline.
Hour 1 will focus on:
- Overview of the IUSE solicitation
- Defining project goals and objectives
- Working with an evaluator to develop a project evaluation plan
- Designing a project for impact and transportability.
Hour 2 will focus on:
- Topics of special interest for geoscientists
- Resources for geoscientists (where to look for recent and current high impact projects and strategies for engaging the geosciences community
- Examples of types of projects at difference scale and level of maturity
If you have questions about registration, please email Yolanda George at ygeorge@aaas.org.