{"id":2445,"date":"2013-11-12T17:58:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2013-11-12T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:58:52","slug":"transforming-stem-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/transforming-stem-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming STEM Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently attended the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&amp;U) conference on Transforming STEM Education: Inquiry, Innovation, Inclusion and Evidence. It was an information-rich conference which highlighted the amazing initiatives currently taking place in the field of STEM education.To give you a taste of the veritable smorgasbord of information provided at the conference, I have prepared a <a title=\"Summary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/183685203\/AAC-U-STEM-Education-Inquiry-Innovation-Inclusion-and-Evidence-Summary\">summary of the sessions<\/a> I attended in the whirlwind two days that I was at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to contact me if you want to discuss or learn more about any of the topics included in the summary. Bon app\u00e9tit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently attended the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&amp;U) conference on Transforming STEM Education: Inquiry, Innovation, Inclusion and Evidence. It was an information-rich conference which highlighted the amazing initiatives currently taking place in the field of STEM education.To give you a taste of the veritable smorgasbord of information provided at the conference, I <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/transforming-stem-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Transforming STEM Education\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[239,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stem","7":"tag-teaching","8":"tag-teaching-learning","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-Dr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9735,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/great-stem-resource-and-other-disciplines-too\/","url_meta":{"origin":2445,"position":0},"title":"Great STEM resource (and other disciplines too)!","author":"Karen Nichols","date":"May 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"by Karen Nichols At last month's OLC Innovate Conference here in New Orleans, I attended many interesting sessions. 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