Subject: Release: Math and Science Teachers to Take Online Courses
From: Bob Ubell (rubell@stevens-tech.edu)
Date: Fri 12 Nov 1999 - 22:59:01 MET
From: Bob Ubell <rubell@stevens-tech.edu> Subject: Release: Math and Science Teachers to Take Online Courses Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:59:01 -0500
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MATH AND SCIENCE TEACHERS
TO TAKE COURSES ONLINE
HOBOKEN, NJ--One of the nation's most highly prized teacher technology
training efforts will go online early next year for the first time. The new
Web-based graduate credit program, Technology Applications in Science
Education (TASE), is among several new Internet offerings to be introduced
by WebCampus.Stevens. [http://www.webcampus.stevens.edu]
The three-course graduate certificate program, available exclusively on the
Web in January, is designed especially for middle and high school teachers.
Together with curriculum and school technology specialists and
administrators, WebCampus graduate students learn how to exploit new
technologies to support pre-college science and mathematics learning.
Teachers study software, simulations, the Internet, and computer-based
probes, learning how to implement their discoveries directly into the
classroom.
"With a graduate degree from our program," commented TASE Director Edward
A. Friedman, "teachers will surely make a strong contribution to math and
science teaching in our middle and high schools."
Teachers from all over the country will participate online in "threaded"
e-mail discussions and"chat" and use Web-based bulletin boards and
"whiteboards." WebCampus.Stevens students have online library privileges,
with instant search and retrieval of important databases. Instructors and
students work with the most widely adopted distance learning Internet
courseware system, currently installed in nearly 800 colleges and
universities in more than 40 countries.
The online graduate teacher training program is part of Stevens'
influential Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE),
an internationally acknowledged effort that has instructed thousands of
teachers about how to take creative advantage of the Internet and other
technologies in mathematics and science classes. Under a $2.9 million NSF
grant, CIESE delivered workshops to some 3,000 teachers in New Jersey. With
new funding by the US Department of Education, CIESE collaborates with
community colleges in Ohio, Arizona, and Florida, training 10,000 teachers
in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Using innovative Web
resources, children track merchant vessels and analyze water samples.
[http://k12science.stevens-tech.edu/renie/ciese.html]
Online courses are delivered by WebCampus.Stevens, the new distance
learning environment, managed by The Graduate School at Stevens Institute
of Technology. Requirements for admission to the online school are the same
as those for conventional classroom courses.
The distinguished faculty
[http://www.webcampus.stevens.edu/info/faculty.html] includes M. Peter
Jurkat, Alexander Crombie Humphreys Professor of Management Science, one of
the earliest adopters of the use of computers and networks in education.
Another online instructor is Joshua Baron, an expert on Web development and
video conferencing , is Manager of Curriculum Development and Training at
CIESE. Teresa Zigh, who teaches graduate courses in mathematics and
information systems, is a senior analyst at First Chicago Trust, where she
works on digital printing technologies in the finance industry.
CIESE Director, Edward A. Friedman, also directors the TASE Web-based
program and will be participating in teaching online. A member of the
Executive Committee of the New Jersey State Systemic Initiative to improve
mathematics education statewide, Friedman has also served as a member of
the Research and Development Committee of The College Entrance Examination
Board. After earning a Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia, Friedman was engaged
in teaching and research in experimental solid state physics.
WebCampus.Stevens, which went "live" this month, is under the direction of
Robert Ubell, long associated with science and engineering publishing and
education. A former publisher of Nature, the noted weekly British science
journal, previous editor of The New York Academy of Sciences magazine, The
Sciences, and former President of BioMedNet, the biological sciences
literature and website, Ubell is the first Web-based Distance Learning
Director at Stevens.
For further information and interviews, contact:
Robert N. Ubell, Director
Web-based Distance Learning
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Ph (201) 216-5084 Fx (201)216-8044
www.webcampus.stevens.edu
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