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

这个早期的概念项目寻求在两所美国大学之间建立合作伙伴关系，这两所大学目前正在创造学习环境，以支持STEM学科的参与式学习。这一奖项将允许这些研究人员开始与图尔库大学的芬兰研究人员合作。合作伙伴关系将使研究团队能够协作地了解在复杂的STEM学习环境中参与的性质，以开发更好的方法，在许多环境和背景下创建真实的学习系统。该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性源于它如何告知我们如何留住学生并让他们参与学习任务。这些类型的环境从早年的学习延伸到大学，也延伸到劳动力。国际合作旨在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提高全球竞争力，从而改变边境。此外，NSF为社会创新的目标是通过支持创新学习系统的发展而实现的。

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.