STEM Education for the 21st Century
This book chronicles the revolution in STEM teaching and learning that has arisen from a convergence of educational research, emerging technologies, and innovative ways of structuring both the physical space and classroom activities in STEM higher education. Beginning with a historical overview of US higher education and an overview of diversity in STEM in the US, the book sets a context in which our present-day innovation in science and technology urgently needs to provide more diversity and inclusion within STEM fields. Research-validated pedagogies using active learning and new types of research-based curriculum are transforming how physics, biology, and other fields are taught in leading universities, and the book gives profiles of leading innovators in science education and examples of exciting new research-based courses taking root in US institutions. The book includes interviews with leading scientists and educators, case studies of new courses and new institutions, and descriptions of site visits where new trends in 21st-century STEM education are being developed. The book also takes the reader into innovative learning environments in engineering where students are empowered by emerging technologies to develop new creative capacity in their STEM education, through new centers for design thinking and liberal arts-based engineering. The emergence of exponentially advancing technologies such as synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and materials sciences has been described as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the book explores how these technologies will shape our future and bring a transformation of STEM curriculum that can help students solve many the most urgent problems facing our world and society.
From Springer, Inc. – https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-41633-1