FRCC to join effort to improve STEM education

FORT COLLINS — Front Range Community College will participate in a cooperative grant to improve undergraduate teaching in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The National Science Foundation grant will be run jointly with the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

The project is formally called “Collaborative Research: Promoting Research-based Instructional Methods for Enhancing and Reforming STEM Education”. The primary goal of the project is to move undergraduate STEM instructors toward instructional methods that are more centered on the students. This approach to teaching fosters more active learning by using an…