GRIDc Project Receives Additional Funding
The Green Research for Incorporating Data in the Classroom (GRIDc) project recently received $400,000 in additional funding from the National Science Foundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program to expand into a second phase of their project.
The project’s second phase builds on the success of Phase 1, which developed new curricula to teach STEM concepts associated with renewable energy technologies, generated avenues for adding new technologies to the data grid, diffused more curricula, and expanded research partnerships. The overarching goal of Phase 2 is to develop undergraduate students’ higher order thinking skills in the context of a data-rich learning environment. The project’s primary objectives are to create learning materials and teaching strategies, assess student achievement and higher-order thinking skills, and implement educational innovations.
Dr. Bill Deluca, director of graduate programs for the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology is the project’s principal investigator. Drs. Len Annetta, Aaron Clark, Pam Carpenter, and Joseph DeCarolis are co-principal investigators for the project.
More information on the GRIDc project can be found here.