{"id":5889,"date":"2015-09-23T16:49:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T22:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impact.ucdsehd.net\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2015-09-23T16:49:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T22:49:37","slug":"congratulations-dr-bud-talbot-featured-in-denver-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2015\/09\/23\/congratulations-dr-bud-talbot-featured-in-denver-business-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Dr. Bud Talbot | Featured in Denver Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

To read the full article click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CU campuses awarded $3.6M to further STEM education<\/h3>\n

The National Science Foundation on Wednesday awarded a pair of grants totaling $3.6 million to the University of Colorado’s Boulder and Denver campuses meant to expand their Learning Assistants Programs and ultimately increase student engagement in STEM.<\/p>\n

Learning assistants, students enrolled in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) classes, will take seminars exploring what types of hands-on learning work best for engaging students in the classroom. Research shows that active learning increases student engagement and performance in STEM subjects.<\/p>\n

The learning assistants will then put the theories demonstrated in the seminars in action as assistants to the professors in college classrooms for STEM subjects.<\/p>\n

Bud Talbot, CU Denver principal investigator and assistant professor of science education in the School of Education & Human Development, said the grants will help aid in conducting a large-scale study about exactly what types of active learning helps students best.<\/p>\n

“We’re trying to learn the best way to ensure student success,” Talbot said. “It becomes a much more flexible, interactive environment.”<\/p>\n

Talbot said the grants are especially useful in helping learning assistants learn better ways to interact on a peer-to-peer level with students.<\/p>\n

“Learning Assistants don’t grade student work \u2014 they can’t be seen as a teacher \u2014 they have to be seen as a peer. That way the students trust them … they can be more honest,” Talbot said.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To read the full article click here. CU campuses awarded $3.6M to further STEM education The National Science Foundation on Wednesday awarded a pair of grants totaling $3.6 million to the University of Colorado’s Boulder and Denver campuses meant to expand their Learning Assistants Programs and ultimately increase student engagement in STEM. Learning assistants, students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house","category-in-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}