"New Heights" in STEM Undergraduate Learning

泰勒大学正在推广和传播高质量的STEM教育，使用一个新颖且经过验证的高空研究平台（HARP）来发展教师专业知识，实施教育创新，并评估学习。学生和教师从事最先进的平流层气球发射能力进入“未知”的实时数据和命令交互。通过在“新高度”（33千米高空98%以上的大气）进行直接探测和遥感，学生们对环境、大气、空间和天空有了新的认识。这个项目为学生们提供了进入近太空的机会，并让他们在一个相对未被探索的大气区域创造性地解决问题，有趣和多学科的动手团队合作。这项技术正在通过四个教员讲习班、编纂教材、发展和维持一个网站网络、协助大学HARP初创企业、出版初步讲习班和学生评估报告等方式进行传播。至少20所大学将在他们的课程中实施HARP项目，为了实现这一目标，我们正在建立研讨会，其中包括德堡大学、伊利诺伊大学、西达维尔大学、普渡大学、斯坦福大学、瓦尔帕莱索大学、美国大学。

Interdisciplinary (99)Taylor University is promoting and disseminating high-quality STEM education using a novel and proven High-Altitude Research Platform (HARP) to develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, and assess learning.Students and faculty are engaged in state-of-the-art stratospheric balloon launch capability into the "unknown" with real-time data and command interaction. Students are gaining new awareness of the environment, atmosphere, space, and heavens by direct probing and remote sensing from "New Heights" (over 98% of atmosphere at 33 km altitude). This program is providing students access to near space and engaging them in creative problem solving, fun, and multidisciplinary hands-on team work in a relatively unexplored region of our atmosphere. This technology is being disseminated through four faculty workshops, compiling teaching materials, developing and maintaining a website network, assisting university HARP start-ups, and publishing initial workshop and student assessments. At least 20 universities will implement a HARP program into their curricula, and to achieve that goal we are establishing workshops which include DePauw University, University of Illinois, Cedarville University, Purdue, Stanford, Valparaiso, U.