$2.4 million grant will help UCLA to make undergrad STEM courses more interactive, more effective - Stuart Wolpert, UCLA

A new four-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation will help UCLA redesign some undergraduate courses to make them more interactive and more interdisciplinary. The multipronged initiative, which is already underway and under the auspices of UCLA’s division of life sciences, could transform key courses for thousands of UCLA undergraduates. It is part of a campus-wide goal for all science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses to implement teaching methods that have been proven in peer-reviewed studies to help motivate and engage students. The projects should help students in the STEM fields achieve a deeper level of learning and a richer classroom experience, said Blaire Van Valkenburgh, UCLA’s associate dean of life sciences, who heads the initiative. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/2-4-million-grant-will-help-ucla-to-make-undergrad-stem-courses-more-interactive-more-effective