Good evening,
I wanted to share with you the following information regarding an
upcoming symposium which is being convened by the National Academies to set funding priorities for NSF in STEM education.
Thank you,
Jeff Cohen
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-the-future-of-undergraduate-stem-education-tickets-113781760308?aff=erelpanelorg
Help Shape the Vision and Priorities for STEM Education in the Future
What should our ambitions be for 2040?
What should we do to achieve them?
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Dates
· November 12, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 5:30 PM EST
· November 13, 2020 - 11:00 AM - 5:30 PM EST
· November 19, 2020 - 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM EST
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With sponsorship from the National Science Foundation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is convening a three-day public symposium to explore ambitions for the future of undergraduate STEM education and identify steps for achieving them.
The event will bring innovators from a diverse range of colleges and universities together with policy makers, funders, and representatives from associations and industry.
With this broad range of stakeholders, the symposium will address how we can transform undergraduate STEM education to meet new needs of students, science, and society in the year 2040 and beyond. What are the systemic obstacles to these transformations and how can we overcome them?
Ideas generated at the symposium will be published and shared broadly after the event, with the intention of driving innovation in postsecondary STEM education and influencing funding priorities for the National Science Foundation and other organizations.
More Information
Agenda Forthcoming
Potential Symposium Topics
Questions the symposium may address include:
Radical Changes in Knowledge and Discovery
· How should undergraduate education change as discovery in both academia and industry increasingly demands knowledge and skills from many disciplines?
· What administrative, financial, and pedagogical models best support convergent learning and also address overarching concerns such as privacy, security, and ethical behavior of people and systems?
Achieving Equity and Meeting Future Students' Needs
· How can we anticipate future students' needs and provide a quality education for all students?
· What blend of learning environments, technologies, and other tools are most and least effective for helping first-generation and low-income STEM students succeed? Do different approaches work differently for different groups?
· What would it mean to design changes based on an equity and social justice mindset from the start?
Changing Learning Pathways
· How should the STEM education system adapt to new learning pathways, with individual students' educations increasingly spanning multiple institutions, instructional modes, credentials, and phases of life?
· How can we consider learning in contexts other than formal settings and for different cultures, ages, or levels of instruction?
The Changing STEM Workforce
· How will automation, AI, the gig economy, and other future employment realities affect STEM careers and the skills employers seek?
· Which jobs and sectors are likely to grow, contract, emerge, or disappear entirely?
Event Format
The event will be held virtually on November 12, 13, and 19, 2020. The events on the 19th will offer an opportunity for reactions, reflections, and active work focused on creating change.
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Jeffrey M. Cohen, MBA
Director, Public Affairs & Marketing
INFORMS
jeff.cohen@informs.org------------------------------