Teaching Resource Clearinghouse

Throughout the STEM Transitions project, web-based classroom resources for community college faculty will be identified as part of the project team’s research efforts. We plan to continually expand this list of resources and hope you find it useful. We also invite you to suggest resources for inclusion in the clearinghouse. Please email the project team at resources@stemtransitions.org

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Cluster

Project Title: AgrowKnowledge
AgrowKnowledge is the National Center for Agriscience and Technology Education, a national partnership of community colleges. The work of the Center is enhanced by the involvement of business and industry, leading universities in agriculture education, secondary schools, and professional associations. The purpose of AgrowKnowledge is to strengthen the math, science and technology skills of college agriculture students by delivering high quality professional development workshops and curriculum to secondary and postsecondary educators that incorporate new and emerging technologies into agriculture, food and natural resources programs; responsive to agriculture industry employment opportunities.
Resources: learning objects, online course, curriculum materials, degree plans, web links, and more
http://www.agrowknow.org/

Project Title: Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center
The Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center (ATEEC) is a national center that promotes and supports environmental technology education to address the needs of the national and global workforce.
Resources: Activities, multimedia, career information, curriculum, electronic environmental resource library
http://www.ateec.org/

Health Science Cluster

Project Title: Nursing Education & Technology (NEAT)
In an effort to contribute to high quality, cost-effective, graduate level nursing education, a group of inter-institutional partners are working together to identify common teaching and learning challenges in distance health care education. An important goal of the project is to create learning objects, also called Sharable Content Objects or SCOs, and interactive case studies that are applicable across courses, contexts, and educational levels and are designed to meet the usability standards of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM).
Resources: Web-delivered learning objects and other resources
http://webcls.utmb.edu/neat/ and http://NEATproject.org

Information Technology Cluster

Project Title: CSSIA - Center for Systems Security and Information Assurance
The Center for Systems Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA) established the first comprehensive Information Technology Security and Data Assurance Center in the Midwest. This center collects, categorizes, adapts, enhances, standardizes and evaluates curriculum and offers training programs to community college and university faculty, secondary school faculty and students across the region.
Resources: Degree plans
http://www.cssia.org

Manufacturing Cluster

Project Title: National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME)
NCME is an NSF National Resource Center, is a leader in manufacturing engineering technology education and offers a variety of products and services to both academic and industry professionals including: curriculum modules in nine subject areas covering technical skills, soft skills, math, and science; a self-guided curriculum development kit with a step-by-step instruction manual and template for creating competency-based activities; grant proposal development; grant management and evaluation; and professional development workshops in activity-based learning and authentic assessment. Most recently, the NCME has established the Manufacturing Education Resource Center (MERC) to serve as an electronic clearinghouse for high quality materials and best practices in manufacturing education.
Resources: MERC Online memberships, which are free, offer access to many resources, most of which are free; a few require a fee.
http://www.ncmeresource.org/ and http://www.merconline.net/

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)

Project Title: Teaching the Process of Science
Visionlearning is an innovative educational resource designed for students, teachers, parents or anyone interested in learning. The website features a free, bilingual library of succinct, award-winning learning modules that integrate text, multimedia, and other resources to make learning exciting spanning biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science, and other areas, from middle school to graduate level topics. Students can browse at will or teachers can set up a classroom selecting specific modules for their students to complete and customizing for their needs.
Resources: Over 50 lessons
http://www.visionlearning.com/

Project Title: Math Across the Community College Curriculum (MAC3)
The goal of MAC3 is to create a mathematically literate society that ensures a workforce equipped to compete in a technologically advanced global economy. The project trains math and non-math faculty across the disciplines to create, evaluate and modify projects that incorporate mathematics. As a result, community college students throughout the nation will be offered opportunities to deepen and reinforce the mathematics they have learned in their math classes, apply it in context, and understand its greater importance and application in their lives.
Resources: Math project drafts in over 30 areas
http://www.mac3.amatyc.org/

Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics Cluster

Project Title: GPS for Geographers
GPS Tools for Geographers is a web-based project at Oklahoma State University, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Launched in 2003, this website is intended to be a source of information for individuals and educators interested in developing or improving GPS field exercises and lecture materials. The goal is to assist individuals in gaining proficiency in GPS theory, use, and applications. It is also useful in equipping organizations and individuals desiring to achieve competency in GPS/GIS integration. Increasing use of GPS technology within agriculture, transportation, natural resource management, and other fields highlights the importance of learning about and applying this technology.
Resources: Teaching modules that are adaptable to a variety of disciplines, comprehensive overview of GPS technology, data resources to use with GPS and GIS
http://www2.ocgi.okstate.edu/gpstools/