Summer Institute for Environmental Values Education

Uw Msr Summer Institute 2012 Crowdsourcing Personalized Online Education

Sumit Basu and Lucy Vanderwende, Teaching the Web: Learning How to Use Arbitrary Text as Teaching Material While there are a variety of efforts devoted to developing online courses and tutoring systems around existing curricula, the diverse set of possible learning topics is growing exponentially, and many of these do not have the advantage of a formal class or curriculum. This is particularly ...

Institute for Environmental Research

Meeting report: the first National Academies Summer Institute for Undergraduate Education in Biology.

The 2002 NRC Report Bio2010 (NRC, 2003), calling for changes in undergraduate education for biologists, suggested the establishment of summer workshops to help implement reform. While the report was in press, Millard Susman, a retired genetics professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Bob Yuan, a professor at University of Maryland—College Park who also works as a consultant for th...

InstItute for HIgHer educatIon PolIcy

Meeting report: the 2004 National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology.

In 2002, a National Research Council (NRC) Committee was established to organize a series of National Academies Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education in Biology (NASIUEB). The goal of these Institutes is to help undergraduate faculty in the life sciences, particularly those teaching large classes at research universities, apply findings from recent research about learning to improve thei...