Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) - Advancing what works in STEM education - 2010 Keck/PKAL National Colloquium

"Transformative Change in STEM Education: Leadership for Advancing Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Learning"

PKAL`s Facilitating Interdisciplinary Learning (IDL) project, funded by the W.M. Keck Foundation, has involved 30 diverse campus teams around the country in a conversation about what works and what needs to happen to better prepare students for interdisciplinary STEM thinking and doing. This project builds, in part on PKAL`s past work in interdisciplinary STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education and the National Research Council Report on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research.

The Keck/PKAL National Colloquium is the conclusion and celebration of this three-year project, during which campus teams have been engaged in interdisciplinary STEM education projects, ranging from interdisciplinary general education and first year experience programs to interdisciplinary courses in teacher education and majors programs in environmental science, neuroscience and human biology.

The National Colloquium is designed to engage participants, including members of Keck/PKAL project teams, in developing a strategic leadership action agenda to advance interdisciplinary STEM learning--for all students.