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Summit on the Future of Undergraduate Geoscience
EducationDr. Sharon Mosher
Dean, Jackson School of Geosciences
Sponsored by
Jackson School of GeosciencesUniversity of Texas at Austin
January 10-12, 2014
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Summit • Brought together ~200 educators representing broad
spectrum of undergraduate geoscience education community– R1 research universities with undergraduate programs, 4-year and 2-
year colleges– Faculty, heads & chairs, education researchers– Industry & professional society representatives
• Collectively discussed issues facing geosciences• 2 Keynotes, 3 panel discussions, small working group sessions;
working group presentations• All but individual working group sessions recorded & available
online (link found at: http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/events/future-of-geoscience-undergraduate-education/)
• 1st step in development a high-level community vision for the geosciences – ongoing community process
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Motivations: Geoscience Research today & in the future…
• Interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary• Complex interactions between different parts of the Earth
system – Earth’s interior and surface, hydrosphere, atmosphere,
cryosphere, and biosphere– Coupling of chemical, physical, biological and geological
processes– Deep time, present day processes, future impacts
• Important in addressing societally important issues– ethics, economics, policy and communication
As research changes – education must change
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Motivation: Transformation in Undergraduate Education
• New ways of enhancing student learning• New pedagogies for STEM education; discipline-based
education research (DBER)• Flipped classrooms, blended learning, Massive Online Open
Courses (MOOC’s), crowd-sourcing of open education resources• Virtual experiences, visualization and geospatial tools• Opportunities for shared resources and courses with local
customization• Computational modeling and simulation of processes and
global-scale events• Massive amounts of quantitative information – BIG DATA
As technology & data change – how and what we teach must change
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Motivations: Diverse & Informed Future Workforce
• Broadening Participation and Retention of Underrepresented Groups– Geosciences: <10% low-income, first-generation, and
underrepresented minorities– 12% of geoscientists retire in 10 years– 35% increase in geoscience jobs in 10 years
• Preparing K-12 teachers – ~10-15% take geosciences in middle or high school– Educate informed citizens– Instill interest in geoscience careers– Next Generation Science Standards – Geoscience Literacy documents
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External MotivationsFor increasing student learning to prepare students for future (not present) workforce• Pressure nationally from above
– OSTP, PCAST, NRC, NSF
• Pressure locally from above– Legislatures, coordinating and/or governing boards/regents,
presidents/provosts
• Other external pressures– Public, alumni, parents, students
• Personal pressure– Joy, satisfaction, obligation
Why does this matter?– Funding, Influence, Survival
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Summit Outcomes Summary• Focus on skills, competencies, concepts,
learning outcomes, not disciplinary content or curriculum– Universally accepted for scientists
• Critical thinking/problem solving• Communicate effectively to scientists & non-scientists• Understand and use scientific research methods
• Have strong quantitative skills and ability to apply• Work in interdisciplinary teams and across cultures • Ability to access and integrate information from
different sources and to continue to learn
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Skills for Geoscientists
• Work with uncertainty, non-uniqueness, incompleteness, ambiguity and indirect observations
• Readily solve problems, especially those requiring spatial and temporal (i.e. 3D and 4D) interpretations
• Make inferences about Earth system from observations of natural world combined with experimentation and modeling
• Have strong computational skills and the ability to manage and analyze large datasets
• Integrate data from different disciplines and apply systems thinking
• Have strong field skills and a working knowledge of GIS• Be technologically versatile (i.e. Google Earth, tablets,
smartphones, apps)
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Geoscience Concepts• Earth as a complex dynamic system
– linkages between the different systems (e.g., lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere etc.).
– coupling between chemical, physical, biological and geological processes
• Deep time, including the origin and evolution of life and Earth; present day processes & future impacts
• How Earth works, including surficial and tectonic processes; natural resources (including water and energy), natural hazards, climate change
• Understand societal relevance of geoscience topics and ethical dimensions
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Pedagogy & Use of Technology• Use proven active learning methods and pedagogy
– Disseminate, encourage use & increase current knowledge base; illustrate benefits
– Incorporate collaborative, integrative, interdisciplinary teamwork– Integrate research projects & experiences, problem solving
projects, field experiences into curriculum
• Integrate technology, visualization, simulation, modeling, and big data as appropriate– Sophisticated systems can strongly facilitate student exploration
and classroom interactivity– Make better use of social networking, educational games and
crowdsourcing
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Barriers & Solutions• Resources – financial and space needs
– Time and support to develop and pilot new instructional approaches
– Space redesigned from lecture-based to interactive classes– Technology infrastructure– Performance-based incentives to change– Investment in professional development activities
• Annual performance evaluations and tenure and promotion do not reward efforts to improve teaching
• Resources – community– Availability of web-based resources, such as repositories of
data and curricula, examples of effective implementation – Build faculty awareness of the availability of resources
• Different incoming student backgrounds & quantitative preparation
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Preparation of Future K-12 Teachers
• Integrate Next Generation Science Standards into undergraduate curricula – Prepare future teachers to do the same
• Integrate math & basic sciences into course content– Provide geologic examples that can be used in teaching those
subjects • Encourage collaborations with K-12 in-service teachers
and improvements in pre-service programs– Can use to address “Broader Impacts” research grant objectives
• Be aware of state teacher education & licensure requirements, local K-12 instruction requirements & content assessment
• Build collaborations between Y4C & Y2C faculty
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Broadening Participation of Under-represented Groups
• Emulate & develop successful recruiting programs– Provide financial support– Reach out to students in their communities– Involve members of the community (families, high school teachers,
guidance counselors)– Incorporate role models – Include mentoring
• Collaboration among Y4C, 2YC, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HIS), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s) faculty – Provides pathways for successfully transfer to Y4C– REUs to recruit and provide opportunities for 2YC, HBCU and HIS
students • Develop or collaborate with STEM programs for minority students at
pre-high school and high school levels • Address geosciences image
– Emphasize societal relevance & career prospects– Earth is Calling video, posters/brochures
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What is the Future Roadmap for sustained change?
History repeating itself?• Some have done this before• Many were not involved 18 years ago• Geoscience research has changed• Technology & data has changed• Culture, motivations changing
How do we learn from past? • Have recommendations broadly embraced and implemented• Requires combined efforts of all of us• Heads & Chairs, Professional societies & industry roles
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Next steps towards completing & implementing community vision
• Disseminate results of Summit – Webinars, town meetings, articles, talks, reports, surveys
• Increase awareness and use of already developed community resources & effective pedagogy & techniques
• Further refine vision, generate more detailed plans, provide examples, hold follow-on activities
• Role of Heads & Chairs in stimulating change – Establish academic cultures that reward innovative teaching, including
promotion & tenure– Improve instructional infrastructure– Allocate time and support for faculty developing and piloting new
instructional approaches– Provide performance-based incentives to change– Invest in professional development activities for faculty– Make effective teaching an important hiring criterion – Make effective teaching part of graduate student professional training
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• Roles of professional societies– Disseminate results of Summit – Spearhead follow-on activities– Advocate for a community vision for geoscience
undergraduate education– Organize professional development efforts for young
faculty & experienced faculty• Roles of employers
– Provide input on community vision– Articulate future workforce needs – skills, competencies,
critical concepts– Work with department faculty on providing practical
applications, projects, research & experiences for undergraduates
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• Sustained change in geoscience undergraduate education – Combined, coordinated efforts of departments and
programs– Administrators, individual faculty innovators– Geoscience professional societies & future workforce
employers• Affect culture change - administration down to
student level– Overcome roadblocks to implementation
• View Outcomes: – Links to reports, archived webcasts of summit,
community resources, background reading, future activities, etc.
– http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/events/future-of-geoscience-undergraduate-education/
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
SUMMIT ON THE FUTURE OF UNDERGRADUATE GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION
Tim Bralower, Pennsylvania State University
Jacqueline Huntoon, Michigan Technological University
Peter Lea, Bowdoin College
David McConnell, North Carolina State University
Kate Miller, Texas A&M University
Sharon Mosher, University of Texas at Austin
Jeff Ryan, University of South Florida
Lori Summa, ExxonMobil Upstream Research
Joshua Villalobos, El Paso Community College
Lisa White, University of California – Berkeley
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
SUMMIT ON THE FUTURE OF UNDERGRADUATE GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION
Robert Frodeman, University of North Texas
James Collins, Arizona State University
PANELISTSAnne Egger, Central Washington University
Ashanti Johnson, Institute for Broadening Participation; University of Texas at Arlington
Chris Keane, American Geoscience Institute
Lyndsey LeMay, Thomas Nelson Community College
Cathy Manduca, SERC
Steve Marshak, University of Illinois at Urbana
Stephen Mattox, Grand Valley State
David McConnell, North Carolina State University
Dave Mogk, Montana State University
Steven Whitmeyer, James Madison University
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Questions and Discussion
• If you would like to speak, press the “raise your hand” icon on the webinar control panel.
• If you would rather type, you can use the chat/questions box.
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Heads & Chairs Webinar Series Schedule
Join us for the next webinar When: Friday, April 18, from 1-2 pm EST Topic: The Future of Field Camps Register for this webinar and others at:
http://www.agiweb.org/workforce/headsandchairs/
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Wrap-up Audiovisual recording of today’s webinar will be
available in the coming weeks.
If you have additional questions or comments about the webinar series, or would like to join the AGU Heads and Chairs listserv, or participate in the workshop at the AGU Fall Meeting, please contact Pranoti Asher at [email protected]