Integrative STEM Education

Contact Information

Program Website: http://TechEd.vt.edu/TE/STEM.html
Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning
ph: 1-866-791-4898
fax: 1-540-231-2079

Program Director

Mark Sanders, Program Director

Summary

In Spring 2006, Virginia Tech (VT) became the first in the US to offer an Integrative STEM Education graduate program. These new graduate degree options develop 21st century K-16 STEM educators, leaders, scholars, and researchers prepared to investigate, teach, and disseminate new integrative approaches to STEM teaching and learning. Our focus on the investigation and application of new integrative approaches to STEM education uniquely sets us apart from other STEM programs. Integrative STEM Education is wholly consistent with, and is an exemplar of, the recommendations of the seminal STEM education reform publications of the past two decades, including Science for All Americans, Benchmarks for Science Literacy, Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, National Science Education Standards, Standards for Technological Literacy, and Educating the Engineer of 2020.

To be awarded the “Integrative STEM Education Graduate Certificate” students must successfully complete 12 semester hours of coursework offered by the Integrative STEM Education Program at Virginia Tech as follows: Complete the following two Integrative STEM Education courses: EDCI 5804: STEM Education Foundations (3 SH) EDCI 5814: STEM Education Pedagogy (3 SH) And two of the following 3-semester hour Integrative STEM Education courses: EDCI 5824: STEM Education Trends and Issues (3 SH) EDCI 5834: STEM Education Research (3 SH) EDCI 5854: Biotechnology Literacy by Design (3 SH) EDCI 5964: Field Study in [Integrative STEM] Education (3 SH)



Delivery - Online

Courses

Course Number Course Title Credit hrs
EDCI 5814 STEM Education Pedagogy 3
EDCI 5804 STEM Education Foundations 3
EDCI 5834 STEM Education Research 3
EDCI 5824 STEM Education Trends & Issues 3
EDCI 5964 STEM Education Field Study (Integrative STEM) 3
EDCI 5854 Biotechnology Literacy by Design 3

Please take a look at our online classes to view what is currently being offered.