The Case for STEM Education: Challenges and Opportunities

Author(s):  
Jeremy Dickerson ◽  
Dennis S. Kubasko Jr. ◽  
Joe Winslow

This chapter describes the development and integration of engagement-rich, short-immersion field experiences using international and online settings in STEM education areas, specifically science and technology. Many STEM programs in higher education settings are now utilizing online and international formats to add value to their programs and to give students unique delivery options that are outside of the traditional college classrooms. Online and international settings create challenges and opportunities to the way that field experiences must be organized and managed. This chapter addresses how some programs are meeting these challenges and using online and international program development to their advantage as STEM fields continue to emerge.


Daedalus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Sue Coleman ◽  
Tobin L. Smith ◽  
Emily R. Miller

Promoting excellence in undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education at major research universities is necessary to ensure that we have the STEM-literate workforce and general population required to propel the nation forward into the twenty-first century and beyond. This essay provides a brief contextual history of the Association of American Universities' (AAU) effort to improve the effectiveness of undergraduate STEM education at member campuses and delineates the specific goals of this initiative. The essay then illuminates the essential role of the academic department and department chair in achieving long-lasting change and improving the quality of undergraduate education. It also discusses critical strategies and approaches for promoting the most effective methods for undergraduate STEM teaching and learning, with numerous examples from AAU member universities. The essay concludes with an acknowledgment of key challenges and opportunities that continue to face undergraduate education at research universities.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Muhamad Imaduddin

<p>Women and education as an effort to prevent radicalism are connected. If the international community tries to engage education as part of a strategy to reduce terrorism, it should be necessary to consider the content of education. One of the SDGs mandates in “equality” is the importance of women to be involved in mastering STEM. This study reveals how the challenges and opportunities for women's relationships and participation in STEM education can make it possible to prevent the emergence of radicalism. This was carried out by exploring several kinds of literature related to the level of women's participation and the usefulness of STEM education. The role of women is shown by their participation as learners, educators, and directly involved in the STEM industry as a workforce. As an educator, women's participation occupies a much better position than workforces. STEM content can be integrated with radicalism issues to be resolved in the classroom to practice critical thinking skills. Women as STEM workers face obstacles that have nothing to do with their abilities, such as stereotyping, discrimination, violence, and abuse. Religious education integrated with STEM education provides an opportunity to reduce radicalism values with women taking part in it.</p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu Lan ◽  
Yuan Peng Du ◽  
Songlan Sun ◽  
Jean Behaghel de Bueren ◽  
Florent Héroguel ◽  
...  

We performed a steady state high-yielding depolymerization of soluble acetal-stabilized lignin in flow, which offered a window into challenges and opportunities that will be faced when continuously processing this feedstock.


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