Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU)

The IUSE: EDU program seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for all undergraduates. Through its investments, the program seeks to support development, implementation, and research efforts that bring recent advances in STEM disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement. The program features two tracks: (1) Engaged Student Learning and (2) Institutional and Community Transformation. Projects may focus on student engagement, faculty professional development, curriculum innovation, institutional change processes, or broader community transformation in undergraduate STEM education. All projects must demonstrate a strong rationale, contribute to exemplary undergraduate STEM education, add to the body of knowledge about what works, and measure project progress and achievement of goals.