Breaking Barriers in Communication: Technology - Enabled Active Learning for STEM Disciplines

虽然课堂上主动学习的好处是有据可查的，但仍然存在障碍，阻碍其在STEM教室中无处不在的使用。虽然这些障碍部分来自内容繁重的学科的历史偏见，但其他障碍的存在是由于更世俗的因素，如班级人数过多和学生不愿参与课堂环境;这个项目正在全国范围内培训40名STEM教师，以发展主动学习技术，（根据大学政策）开发一个学科特定活动库，并将这些活动与使用平板电脑系统的培训相结合。项目PI正在举办一系列研讨会，以建立一个学者社区，并为STEM学科主动学习问题的教育研究做出贡献。这些研讨会的目标是：-培训教师在电子主动学习系统和主动学习技术，-作为一个场地，交流和发展的想法，主动学习跨STEM学科，-教育STEM教师在该地区的人类学科为基础的研究，包括研究和分析 适合这种研究的技术。

Although the benefits of active learning in the classroom are well documented, barriers still exist which block its ubiquitous usage in STEM classrooms. While some of these barriers come from historical prejudices in content heavy disciplines, others exist due to more mundane factors such as large class size and reticence of students to participate in the classroom environment; which may seem less amenable to student opinion than they are to correct or incorrect answers.This project is training 40 STEM faculty members across the country in the development of active learning techniques, developing a repository of discipline-specific activities (in accordance with university policy), and combining the activities with training in the use of a Tablet PC-based system.Project PIs are conducting a series of workshops to build a community of scholars and contribute to education research on issues of active learning in STEM disciplines. The goals of these workshops are to: -Train for faculty in the electronic active learning system and in active learning techniques, -Serve as a venue for the interchange and development of ideas on active learning across STEM disciplines, -Educate STEM faculty in the area of human subjects-based research including research and analysis techniques appropriate to such studies.