Interdisciplinary Education: The Advanced Science Research Center

Science Education Research Using Advanced Recording Technologies

While A/V technology has gotten increasingly more cost-effective, its deployment in instructional settings has typically not taken best advantage of its capabilities, resulting in low quality data that hampers the analysis process. This paper will outline a two-year process of the design and evolution of recording technology packages for use in a range of science education instructional setting...

Redesigning space for interdisciplinary connections: the Puget Sound Science Center.

Mindful design of learning spaces can provide an avenue for supporting student engagement in STEM subjects. Thoughtful planning and wide participation in the design process were key in shaping new and renovated spaces for the STEM community at the University of Puget Sound. The finished project incorporated Puget Sound's mission and goals as well as attention to pedagogical principles, and led ...

Bringing Cognitive Science into Education, and Back Again: The Value of Interdisciplinary Research

Most fields reach a stage when the basic science has developed to a point where it can be naturally expanded to real-world applications. Much of cognitive science has reached that level of maturity. The signs that the time is ripe for more cognitive scientists to make their mark on educational practice are abundant. Some signs are conceptual. We have developed over the past half century a basic...

PRIDE: Photonics Research in Interdisciplinary Education

A new combined research-curriculum development (CRCD) program at Boston University titled Photonics Research in Interdisciplinary Education (PRIDE) is described. The PRIDE program is designed to demonstrate vertically integrated curriculum development by incorporating three levels of modules into a wide range of existing courses. Examples of photonics research and knowledge are molded into modu...

Biophysics software for interdisciplinary education and research