TERC MSPnet: An Electronic Community of Practice Facilitating Communication and Collaboration
MSPnet (the Math Science Partnership Network) provides the MSP program with a web-based, interactive electronic community in order to build capacity and enrich the knowledge base of each individual MSP project as well as the MSP learning community as a whole. Specifically, MSPnet:
- expands MSP projects access to, and ability to share, resources, emerging research, tools, best practices, obstacles and strategies;
- strengthens geographically dispersed partnerships by enhancing and sustaining dialogue through innovative collaborative tools, events and structures;
- creates a growing archive, for both researchers and practitioners, of the lessons and accomplishments of the MSP program;
- enhances the public's access to, and knowledge of, the MSP program;
- conducts research on the impact of on-line formats, functionalities and structures to enhance large scale education reform efforts.
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This volume presents the work of trailblazing researchers and developers of electronic communities for professional learning. It illuminates the essential work behind the scenes in building successful online communities...
We are thrilled to announce that NSF has awarded TERC with funding for Phase II of MSPnet which will ensure the active development and facilitation of this site until March...
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"Building on the needs assessment format used by the Vermont Mathematics Partnership (VMP) in designing its professional development (PD) strategy with participating schools, annual focus groups involving...
"Geologic time is fundamental to the study of the Earth and life sciences, but it is an abstract and difficult concept for students to master. We predict that placebased inquiry,...
Resources
Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) challenges faculty, students, and others in institutions of higher education, including two- and four-year colleges, to think strategically about the creative integration of NSF-funded awards,…
Informalscience seeks to promote and advance the field of informal learning in science and other domains. This site is a place to share knowledge and support a community of learners...
