Discipline-Based Education Research — New from National Academy Pr.

Subtitle:  Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering

Description: From What’s New @ the National Academies, Sept. 10, 2012:

“The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological sciences, geosciences, and chemistry. DBER combines knowledge of teaching and learning with deep knowledge of discipline-specific science …”
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Search Engines, etc. for finding Free Online STEM Resources

“Search Engines and Beyond: A Toolkit for Find­ing Free Online Resources for Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy and Engi­neer­ing“
By Nedelina Tchangalova and Francy Stil­well, Uni­ver­sity of Maryland

in the Spring, 2012 issue of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy Librar­i­an­ship  [ http://www.istl.org/ ]

Earth-pages Resource Center and News

 

Publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, has collected many useful resources at their website Earth-pages.

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