Collaborative Educational Resource Development: Facilitating Emerging Science Learning Within Formal and Informal Settings

• In Event: Roundtable Session 127
  In Roundtable Session: Scientists and Educators Working Together

Abstract

A variety of offices within a federal agency co-funded research projects to enhance Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSE) education. As the field of NSE is rapidly advancing and highly technical, these projects required extensive collaboration between science researchers and educators to develop resources capable of supporting formal learning for students in grades 7-12 and informal learning for members of the general public. Science researchers provided NSE content, educators made the NSE content “digestible” to a variety of audiences, and sometimes educational researchers provided theoretical approaches to guide these collaborative efforts. This paper details promising practices to facilitate collaboration between scientists and educators to improve learning in other emerging scientific fields – affording significant time- and cost-savings to funders, educators, and learners.

Authors

• Jennifer L. Nielsen, Manhattan Strategy Group

• Amara C. Okoroafor, Manhattan Strategy Group

• Andrew J. Herrmann, Manhattan Strategy Group

• James S. Murday, University of Southern California

• Joy Quill, C. J. Quill & Associates, Inc.

• Taimur Amjad, Manhattan Strategy Group

• Shezad Habib, Manhattan Strategy Group