STEM PEDAGOGY

As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, educators were suddenly faced with the challenge of how to continue their students’ education. While this might seem a daunting task, there are several ways educators can utilize the technology and resources already available to support best practices in STEM education. This page offers a repository of open access resources for teaching, learning, and faculty development.

1. Online transition – a list of resources to support the process of transitioning to the online learning environment.

2. Online lectures – a list of media sources such as audio, video, and images to enhance your unique voice and teaching style.

3. Online labs – a list of media sources such as audio, video, and images that can be used for interactive laboratory simulations.

4. Online assessments – this section provides a list of resources to support better learning in an online context.

Transitioning Into Online Spaces

Webinars For Teaching Online: Cornell University features webinars designed to help instructors transition to the online environment.
Transition To Remote Teaching: Vista Higher Learning, Inc. features webinars that guides instructors for developing learning materials and integrating them online.
Online Teaching Learning Through Disruption: Achieving the Dream features webinars designed to help instructors transition to the online environment.
Empowering Educators. Inspiring Students: HHMI features online labs that could be used for general biology classes. Some labs come with activities for high school and undergraduate life science classrooms.
Wisconsin Online: Wisconsin Technical College features an open educational repository of high-quality educational learning materials free to learners and educators.
How To Quickly (And Safely) Move A Lab Course Online: The Chronicle features, “How to Quickly (and Safely) Move a Lab Course Online”. Resources that are designed to serve four different course structures.

Online Tools for STEM Labs

Resources ASEE: Resources to support the engineering education community.
PhET Colorado: PhET Interactive Simulations is a project at the University of Colorado Boulder that creates free interactive math and science simulations.
Hands On Labs: Hands-On Labs that makes lab science possible for distance learning. This presents students who need to take courses myriad benefits related to distance education.
Resource Guide For Developing Laboratories For Online Learning: This document provides descriptions and contact links for online laboratory resources. Featuring laboratory kits for simulated laboratory experiences.

Online Tools for Lectures and Demos

Teaching Online Mini-Video Series-NMSU: This series of short videos present some important considerations for teaching online in contrast to remote emergency instruction.
Course Making Software: This website provides access to seven apps that will help you increase class engagement in online content.
e-Learning Authoring Tools: This review presents ten of the most popular e-learning authoring tools.
22 Tools Create Instructional Videos: Online interactive videos give instructors a platform for presenting additional information beyond the original content, like hypertext. Today, interactive videos include a variety of features that can augment the curriculum and enhance the learning environment.
Keynote By Apple: Keynote is a powerful tool for making it easy to create stunning and memorable presentations.
Google Slides: Google Slides makes your ideas shine with a variety of presentation themes, hundreds of fonts, embedded video, animations, and more. All for free.
Slido For Education: Slido for Education helps lecturers stay connected with their students by powering two-way interactions during their virtual or live classes.
Mentimeter: With Mentimeter you can create interactive presentations & meetings, wherever you are. Get real-time input from remote teams and online students with live polls, quizzes, word clouds, Q & As, and more.
Poll Everywhere: Host interactive remote meetings, anywhere and capture powerful feedback instantly during virtual meetings, classes, events, and more.

Assessment of Online Skills and Knowledge

8 Ways To Assess Online Student Learning: This site provides nine strategies to assess student online learning.
Assessing Online Students: This website features a series of formal and informal online assessments and strategies for careful assessment design and technology use for evaluating how well students achieve learning outcomes in an online course.

General

Portal-Supporting Instruction: Purdue Repository for Online Teaching and Learning (PoRTAL) digital repository is the go-to resource for anyone interested in online teaching and learning. PoRTAL can help you improve your knowledge and skills as you seek to develop your online courses including instructor strategies, course enhancement, pedagogy, active learning, sample tools, and policies.
Scientist Spotlights: The Scientist Spotlights Initiative empowers middle/high school, college, and university science educators to implement inclusive curricula that help ALL students see themselves in science providing access to easy-to-implement assignments/activities that link course content to the stories of counter-stereotypical scientists.
Story Collider: Story collider hosts dozens of live shows all over the country, featuring all kinds of storytellers – researchers, doctors, and engineers presenting true, personal stories about science.
Virtual Classroom: This link provides some of the top-ranked virtual classroom software to facilitate student-teacher interaction with technical tools.
Tools for Distance Learning: This article features a comprehensive list of helpful learning tools; discusses common benefits and drawbacks of remote learning; presents a few strategies for keeping students engaged in distance education.