Funding Opportunity Available
Transforming STEM Learning
Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings
National Science Foundation
Proposal deadline: 11 March 2011
For further information, please go to:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503571
The full solicitation is available at:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10602/nsf10602.htm
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces a solicitation for a new
program in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal
Settings (DRL) called Transforming STEM Learning (TSL). The proposal
deadline is 11 March 2011.
TSL combines interests and resources of separate programs in the DRL to
explore the opportunities and challenges implied by innovative visions
of the future for STEM learning. The TSL program invites
interdisciplinary teams of STEM content specialists, experts in relevant
technologies, STEM formal and informal education specialists,
researchers with expertise in the learning sciences, and specialists in
education research and evaluation methods to submit proposals for
research projects that:
- Study efficacy of existing prototypes for innovations like virtual
schools, special STEM schools, and educational programs that combine
opportunities of formal and informal learning resources in their
communities; or
- Design and conduct exploratory development of new potentially
transformative models for STEM learning environments.
The crosscutting proposals will draw from work in the four primary DRL
programs: Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12), Informal Science Education
(ISE), Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering
(REESE), and Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
(ITEST). However, proposals submitted in response to this solicitation
must have a scope that extends well beyond any of those programs
individually.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503571.
The full solicitation is available at:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10602/nsf10602.htm.