STEM Education Institute Tuesday Seminar
Charlene D’Avanzo
Dean, School of Natural Science, Hampshire College
“Teaching Issues & Experiments in Ecology (TIEE): a Peer-Reviewed Electronic Journal Designed to Help Ecology Faculty Teach Better”
TIEE was established in 2000 with support from NSF and the Ecological Society of America (ESA). It is designed to meet three challenges to the reform of ecology teaching: 1) Integrating sound science, innovative pedagogy, and instructional technology, 2) Disseminating accessible and adaptable materials for a wide range of faculty, and 3) Elevating teaching as scholarship through a peer reviewed journal. In addition to introducing TIEE, I will describe evaluation results and our new “research practitioner” program in which faculty do research on their own teaching.