Collaborative Research: Studying and Supporting Productive Disciplinary Engagement in Demanding STEM Learning Environments across Cultures and Settings

这个早期概念项目旨在建立两所美国大学之间的合作伙伴关系，这两所大学目前正在创建学习环境，以支持STEM学科的参与式学习。 该奖项将使这些研究人员开始与芬兰研究人员在图尔库大学的合作。 合作伙伴关系将使研究团队能够共同理解复杂STEM学习环境中参与的性质，以开发更好的方法，在许多设置和上下文中创建真实的学习系统。该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性来自于它如何告知我们如何保留和吸引学生参与学习任务的知识。 这些类型的环境延伸到整个学习范围，从早年到大学，也到劳动力。 国际合作有助于扩大参与该项目的学生的网络和技能。 该项目与NSF的战略目标重叠，即通过国际伙伴关系帮助美国在全球范围内具有竞争力来改变前沿。 此外，NSF通过支持创新学习系统的发展，实现了为社会创新的目标。

This early concept project seeks to build a partnership between two US universities who are currently creating learning environments to support engaged learning in STEM disciplines. This award will allow these researchers to begin a collaboration with Finnish researchers at Turku University. The collaborative partnership will allow the research team to collaboratively understand the nature of engagement in complex STEM learning environments to develop better methods for creating authentic learning systems across many settings and contexts.The broader significance and importance of this project arises from how it informs our knowledge of how to retain and engage students in learning tasks. These types of environments extend across the learning spectrum from early years into college and also into the workforce. The international collaboration serves to expand the network and skills of students involved in the project. This project overlaps with NSF's strategic goals of transforming the frontiers by helping the United States be globally competitive through international partnerships. Additionally NSF's goal of innovating for society is enabled by supporting the development of innovative learning systems.