Cooperative Agreement NU65PS923725

The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded Literacy Design Collaborative of Bowling Green, New York an $8.8 million Project Grant under the Education Innovation and Research (formerly Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund) program. The grant will support Literacy Design Collaborative's efforts to scale an evidence-based national model of instructional systems designed to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students. The Education...

This $266,986 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of educational modules and a content hub for hands-on, exploration-based learning in data systems. The University of Chicago will create a collection of "courselets" - scaffolded educational modules executable on open cloud testbeds - covering topics such as data acquisition, networking, storage, machine learning, analytics, and...

This $115,335 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of the Distributed Open Education Network (DOENET) platform by Cornell University. DOENET aims to empower faculty to design and test online learning experiments for open educational mathematics content. It will provide tools for authoring interactive content, conducting educational research using that content, and discovering effective content based on research results. The platform reduces barriers to developing...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $174,998 to develop a set of educational modules called "courselets" focused on data systems. The University of California, San Diego will create courselets based on literate programming concepts that allow students to complete hands-on exercises exploring data acquisition,...

This $397,980 three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will fund the development and study of an instructional curriculum on network visualization and data literacy concepts for middle school students. Digital Promise Global will create a curriculum unit that incorporates students' interests and cultural identities to engage 7th and 8th graders in network...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received a $649,921 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) program (CFDA 45.313) to support accessible data curation and inclusive data visualization. In partnership with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Posit Public Benefit Corporation, the Chart2Music open-source project team, the Data Curation Network, and the National Federation of the Blind,...

This three-year, $599,338 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076), will support the development, implementation, and assessment of an inclusive STEM curriculum centered on the early 20th century data science innovations of W.E.B. Du Bois. The curriculum module aims to engage over 1,600 undergraduate students across 40 courses at partner...

This $599,935 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the College of New Jersey's project to develop and implement a curriculum supplement initiative to train preservice K-8 teachers in data literacy skills. Over three years, the project aims to scale implementation of its five-session data visualization curriculum to 20 higher education faculty across the U.S. At least 400 preservice teachers will build exploratory data analysis and...

This $7,475,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) with a start date of September 1, 2023 and end date of August 31, 2028. The primary award recipient, Columbus State Community College, will lead a consortium of community college partners to establish the National Information Technology Innovation Center (NITIC). The center will focus on developing and disseminating...

This federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) program (CFDA 45.313), will provide $135,934 to Columbia University to convene a two-day forum for 15-20 Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) archives and special collections curators. The forum aims to enhance professional development, inclusivity, and ethical stewardship of collections in this often-overlooked part of the library and archives...