SERC

Science Education Resource Center
at Carleton College

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Creating Inclusive Virtual Spaces

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This content is a comprehensive resource page on creating inclusive virtual learning and work environments, addressing accessibility disparities, differential pandemic impacts, and strategies for equitable online engagement, with curated guides on inclusive teaching, virtual meetings, remote collaboration, and responding to online harassment.

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• Bringing Coding the Geoscience Classroom - Virtual Workshop
  Incorporate computation into your undergraduate classroom - January 13-14, 2026 virtual workshop (11 am - 4 pm ET daily). At the virtual workshop you will learn approaches and strategies to help your students develop their computational skills.
• Generative AI in the Geoscience Classroom
  

  Explore how generative AI is impacting geoscience education in this free webinar. We will highlight some emerging practices and perspectives on the use of these tools by educators, especially in guiding their students to appropriate use. The webinar will include time for participants to share and hear from each other so we can start to build a collective understanding of the current landscape.

• Virtual PD Opportunity: Increase the Success of Students in Your Courses
  

  SERC invites you to participate in active reflection and discussion on teaching practice with higher education colleagues from across the disciplines in an upcoming virtual community conversation series. The series aims to provide STEM faculty, lecturers, and teaching assistants with professional development around practices that are known to positively affect student success in undergraduate classrooms.

• New GNOMES Publication in Journal of Geoscience Education
  

  SERC congratulates Kristin O'Connell on a recent article she co-authored in the Journal of Geoscience Education entitled 'A short-term critical zone geophysics program designed to recruit, retain, and foster community amongst 1st and 2nd year undergraduates historically marginalized in geosciences.'

• Community Opportunity: Help us update data-rich activities
  

  With the Community Contribution Tool, educators can proactively safeguard and enrich teaching materials, ensuring their longevity and relevance. Take action now to preserve and enhance educational resources for the future.

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What's New at SERC

Teaching Computation Using MATLAB exemplary activity collection

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This year, Teaching Computation Using MATLAB community members continued the peer review of MATLAB based teaching activities. Explore the exemplary collection and consider submitting your own MATLAB teaching activity for the next round of peer review.

EvaluateUR Methods

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The EvaluateUR Method provides an online guided evaluation process designed for programs that support research experiences for undergraduates, CUREs, and team competitions.

GP-IMPACT: Expanding HBCU Pathways for Geoscience Education

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Program profiles for STEM teacher preparation illuminate the goals, strengths, and successes of the participating institutions in increasing the ability of future teachers to teach geoscience content in K12 classrooms and provide key recommendations to support other HBCUs.