This afternoon, Wendy Smith will share recent results from the SEMINAL project. Wendy is the Associate Director of the Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education at UNL and one of the lead investigators on the 5-year SEMINAL (Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning) grant funded through NSF (2016-2021).
The goal of SEMINAL is to stimulate and better understand how to enact and support institutional change aimed at implementing active learning in undergraduate mathematics learning environments, focusing in particular on large-enrollment entry courses: precalculus to calculus 2 (P2C2). SEMINAL is being carried out in two phases. Phase 1 consists of case studies at six institutions that have a record of successfully implementing Active Learning Mathematics (ALM) and that represent both diverse institutional settings and student demographics. Phase 2 consists of longitudinal, incentivized case studies of nine diverse institutions that will infuse active learning into the P2C2 sequence. Overall, Phase 1 offers a retrospective account of ALM models of change that worked. Phase 2 will develop theory and insights into the processes by which change focused on ALM can unfold over time, along with affordances and constraints related to institutional change.
Time: 2-3 pm, Thursday 11/29
Location: 109 Bessey Hall
If you are unable to join the seminar face-to-face in Bessey room 109, you are welcome to join us via zoom teleconferencing by clicking on (or copying-and-pasting into your browser) the following URL:
https://unl.zoom.us/j/212107342