EHR UPDATES
Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Assistant Director, National Science Foundation
Education and Human Resources
Advisory Committee, Directorate for Education and Human Resources
April 30, 2014
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DIRECTORATE FOR EDUCATION AND HUMAN
RESOURCES
Vision: A healthy and vital national science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education
enterprise.
Mission: To support research and development on STEM
education and learning and to engage and grow a diverse,
STEM-literate citizenry ready to advance the frontiers of
science and innovate for society.
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Welcome!
• New NSF Director France Córdova
• New EHR Advisory Committee Members
• New EHR staff and assignments
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Transparency and Accountability
• Abstracts
• Post-panel reviews
• Portfolio analyses
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• NSF
• FY 2015 Budget Request:
$7255.00 Million
• EHR FY 2015 Budget
Request: $889.75 Million
• EHR FY 2015 request is
shaped by investments in
fundamental research,
capacity building, and people
as well as critical investments
in NSF-wide priorities and
programs, and cross-agency
collaboration.
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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND MODELBUILDING FOR STEM LEARNING
Investments where questions inform development and
model-building and, in turn, model building and
development give rise to new questions.
Research
Development
& ModelBuilding
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EHR FY 2015 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET
REQUEST
Total FY 2015 Request: $889.75 million
Divisions
Research on Learning in Formal
and Informal Settings (DRL)
Graduate Education (DGE)
Human Resource Development (HRD)
Undergraduate Education (DUE)
Request
$241.58 million
$263.34 million
$143.11 million
$241.72 million
Change over FY 2014 estimate: $43.25 million
(+5.1%)
EHR STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
STEM Learning
and Learning
Environments
Broadening
Participation in
STEM
STEM Professional
Workforce
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EHR CORE RESEARCH (ECR) MERGES WITH
RESEARCH ON EDUCATION AND LEARNING
(REAL)
• Foundational research in areas that are broad,
essential, and enduring
• Coherent foundation of theory and research to
guide and improve STEM education
• Synthesize, build and/or expand research
foundations in key areas
Total FY 2015 Request: $75.57 million
(+$4.99M over FY14 estimate)
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Rapidly and dramatically improve U.S. undergraduate STEM
education through coherent, agency-wide investment to:
• increase numbers
• broaden diversity
• improve preparation of STEM professionals
Common system of assessing the impact of the collective
investment
Directorate for Education and
Human Resources (EHR)
$ 99.08 million
Directorate for Geosciences
(GEO)
$ 10.90 million
Directorate for Engineering
(ENG)
$6.00 million
Directorate for Biological
Sciences (BIO)
$2.5 million
Improving Undergraduate
STEM Education (IUSE)
$118.48 million
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I-Corps for Learning (I-Corps-L)
A pilot initiative to study whether the I-Corps model can help
to propagate and scale educational innovations
Participating Teams
Integrating the Scientific Process
and Active Learning
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Value of I-Corps-L
(from the participants)
For their learning innovation...
• “I was really skeptical…I have
learned an amazing amount already
and look at things very differently
than I did two weeks ago”
• “A scientific approach to customer
discovery framed within the construct
of the business model canvas
provides a potentially transformative
perspective to propagation of
innovations”
• “All faculty who engage in
research/funded activities should
know this”
And beyond...
• “Already applying it to
other projects”
• “Out of my comfort
zone, a good
challenge”
• “Opens doors to people
we wouldn’t normally
get to meet”
• “Got an idea of how to
use it in my teaching...”
SCIENCE LEARNING +
• An international partnership
• Established by NSF, UK-based Wellcome Trust, and UK Economic and Social
Research Council
• In collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation, and the Noyce Foundation
• Science Learning+ funding (up to $14.4mil) will support
• Research into how learning happens outside the classroom
• Exploration of effective practice
• Building the evidence base
• Objectives
• Strengthen the research and knowledge base
• Bridge the practice – research gap:
• Share knowledge and experience:
• Funding priorities
• Understanding learning
• Engagement in STEM
• Skills development
• Equity, diversity, and access to informal learning settings
• Measurement of outcomes
For additional information see Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) solicitation,
NSF 14-555
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NSF/USAID Partnership
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide
• Graduate research experiences in underdeveloped
countries
• Initial Year: 15 partner countries/47 awards to GRFP
Fellows
Leadership and Excellence
• February 18-19, 2014 – Successful PAEMST State
Coordinator Meeting
• March 2-5, 2014 – ADVANCE PI meeting, with pre –
meeting gathering of presidents and provosts
• March 3-5, 2014 – Presidential Awards Recognition
Ceremony
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A current activity: DRAFT
External
Drivers
Internal Processes
Advisory Committee
Recommendations
Notice 135
“accountability &
transparency”
FEVS
Other
Five Levers, that frame
what we can and
cannot do:
1. Grant Making
2. Technical
Assistance
3. Communication
4. Partnerships
5. People
Four goals for the
next few years:
1. Improve EHR
work
environment
2. Improve
operating
procedures
3. Identify critical
challenges, work
to find solutions
4. Increase impact
11 Short-Term
Projects, to be
completed by
12/31/2014,
that will move
us towards our
goals.
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Cross-Agency Activities
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FEDERAL STEM EDUCATION 5-YEAR
STRATEGIC PLAN
Members of the Committee on STEM Education (CoSTEM)
*Department of Agriculture
*Department of Commerce
*Department of Defense
*Department of Education
*Department of Energy
*Department of Health & Human
Services
*Department of Homeland Security
*Department of the Interior
*Department of Transportation
*Environmental Protection Agency
*Executive Office of the President
*National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
*National Science Foundation
*Smithsonian Institution
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FEDERAL STEM EDUCATION 5-YEAR
STRATEGIC PLAN
Priority Areas: Lead Convener
*Improve STEM Instruction: Department of Education
*Increase and Youth and Public Engagement in STEM: Smithsonian
Institution
*Enhance STEM Experience of Undergraduate Students: National Science
Foundation
*Better Serve Groups Historically Underrepresented in STEM Fields:
National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health
*Design Graduate Education for Tomorrow’s STEM Workforce: National
Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health
Coordination Objectives
*Build New Models for Leveraging Assets and Expertise: FC-STEM
*Build and Use Evidence-Based Approaches: FC-STEM
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Focus of this meeting
• Next steps on “Strategic Re-Envisioning for the Education
and Human Resources Directorate”
• Hearing from the AC:
• Collaborations across sectors
• Defining the STEM education trajectory
• Collaborations across NSF
• Reflections from outgoing members
• National dialogue on K-12 standards
• Tackling a national issue: growing the STEM workforce