Category: Research

STEM educators converge on Purdue campus for annual conference

The 8th annual Indiana STEM Education Conference took place on January 12 at Purdue University, sponsored by Purdue’s Center for Advancing the Teaching and Learning of STEM (CATALYST), the College of Education, 1st Maker Space, Amplify, Comcast, Get More Math, LEGO Education, Keep Indiana Learning, STEM Synergy, NearSpace Education, Purdue Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, STEM Education Works, Tallo, and TinkRworks.

CREATE: “All teachers need to know about assistive technology”

To provide high quality instruction for each and every student, College of Education students and faculty need access to both pre-made assistive technology and customized assistive technology solutions. The College’s Center for Resources and Equipment for Assistive Technology in Education (CREATE) opened for Purdue Education faculty and students in the Fall of 2021 to help meet this need.

Over 500 to attend Purdue’s Indiana STEM Education Conference

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — More than 500 teachers and education professionals from across the state will attend the Indiana STEM Education Conference on January 12, 2023. The annual conference runs from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday (Jan. 12) in...

College’s Spring 2023 Service-Learning Fellows

Stephanie Oudghiri, Abby Laufman, and Angie Holtsclaw have been selected as spring 2023 Service-Learning Fellows. The semester-long Service-Learning Fellows Program is designed to foster the development and institutionalization of service-learning courses and curricula, projects, and scholarly pursuits at Purdue, as well as strengthen collaborative efforts and...

College of Education partners with UCDB in gifted education learning exchange

“Purdue University’s College of Education and Brazil’s Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB) signed a Letter of Intent to explore research collaborations and faculty and student exchanges between the two universities,” said Kathryn Obenchain, associate dean for Learning, Engagement and Global...

Washington Irving Elementary 3rd grade class with teacher Juan Barboza.

College of Education: Part of Indiana’s $2M funding initiative to support teachers of English Language Learners

Purdue University is one of ten Indiana universities offering a completely online add-on license to prepare teachers – for free – to provide effective language, literacy, and content-area instruction for students classified as English Language Learners (ELLs). Indiana will spend $2...