(FOA)-Improving
Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR);
December 4, 2019
Agency
National
Science Foundation
Description
The
IUSE: EHR is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel,
creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge
about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate
students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher
education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating
students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM
fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public. In pursuit of
this goal, IUSE: EHR supports projects that seek to bring recent advances in
STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, that adapt, improve, and
incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning, and that
lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. In addition
to innovative work at the frontier of STEM education, this program also
encourages replication of research studies at different types of institutions
and with different student bodies to produce deeper knowledge about the
effectiveness and transferability of findings.
IUSE:
EHR also seeks to support projects that have high potential for broader
societal impacts, including improved diversity of students and instructors
participating in STEM education, professional development for instructors to
ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques that meet the
changing needs of students, and projects that promote institutional
partnerships for collaborative research and development. IUSE: EHR especially
welcomes proposals that will pair well with the efforts of NSF INCLUDES (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsfincludes/index.jsp)
to develop STEM talent from all sectors and groups in our
society.
For
all the above objectives, the National Science Foundation invests primarily in
evidence-based and knowledge-generating approaches to understand and improve
STEM learning and learning environments, improve the diversity of STEM students
and majors, and prepare STEM majors for the workforce. In addition to
contributing to STEM education in the host institution(s), proposals should
have the promise of adding more broadly to our understanding of effective
teaching and learning practices.
The
IUSE: EHR program features two tracks: (1) Engaged Student Learning and (2)
Institutional and Community Transformation. Several levels of scope, scale, and
funding are available within each track (see full announcement for
details).
Announcement
Number:
NSF
19-601
Closing
Date:
Engaged
Student Learning and Institutional and Community Transformation Level 2 and 3
due December 04, 2019
Institutional
and Community Transformation Capacity-Building due February 04,
2020
Engaged
Student Learning and Institutional and Community Transformation Level 1 due
February 04, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19601/nsf19601.htm
Contact
Information
Ellen
Carpenter
(703)
292-5104