ENGR 3002 - ADVANCED LEARNING THROUGH EVIDENCE-BASED STEM TEACHING

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Designed for graduate students and postdocs preparing for academic careers in the stem disciplines, this course provides an introduction to the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOLT). This is the second course in a series; however, the former course (3001) is not a required prerequisite. The course will utilize material presented in a massive open online course (MOOC) available through coursera.org and sponsored by the center for the integration of research, teaching and learning (CIRTL). Participants will learn about effective teaching strategies and the research that supports them in addition to learning how to collect, analyze, and act upon their own evidence of student teaching. Topics include but are not limited to: 1. Learning through diversity, 2. Cooperative learning/peer instruction, 3. Inquiry-based labs, 4. Problem-based learning, 5. Flipped classroom pedagogy. Further, participants will learn the process for developing a teaching as research plan as well as the role of human subjects consent for classroom based research.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad HSU Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
Course Attributes: Hybrid

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