Educators at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will lead a global consortium funded by the HP Catalyst Initiative to develop new technologies for measuring students' competency in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The six members of the consortium include institutions of higher learning in France, Hong Kong, Russia, South Africa and the US, as well as a New Jersey high school.
The Measuring Learning Consortium will be led by Candace Thille, director of the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon, and CMU's Ananda Gunawardena, associate teaching professor in the School of Computer Science's Computer Science Department. The consortium is one of five supported by HP in 2010 as part of its Catalyst Initiative. Collectively, they aim to transform STEM education into learning experiences that better meet the needs of today's students.
HP is providing both technology and financial support for the consortium members with more than $6 million in funding this year for the overall HP Catalyst Initiative. Other consortia supported by HP are investigating online STEM education, developing new models of teacher preparation, enabling collaborative problem-solving using grid computing and creating new models of student-driven learning including 'learning how to learn'. Thirty-five organisations in 11 countries are represented among the five consortia.
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