The STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute (SEIRI) is dedicated to advancing the state of the art of STEM education research and practice across IU Indianapolis’s campus and beyond through faculty development. To do this, SEIRI’s work focuses on four key areas:
- Innovation: Developing and promoting novel pedagogies with faculty to facilitate the competence and persistence of STEM learners from all backgrounds
- Consultation: Supporting STEM faculty in participating in the scholarship of STEM teaching and learning in order to reform STEM curricula
- Evaluation: Assessing the effectiveness of STEM faculty’s existing and proposed educational practices
- Research: Investigating fundamental questions of how people learn STEM