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STEM Education: Inferring Promising Systems Changes from Experiences with MIT BLOSSOMS
Author(s) -
Larson Richard C.,
Murray M. Elizabeth
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.2411
Subject(s) - globalization , the internet , sociology , political science , engineering ethics , psychology , knowledge management , computer science , engineering , world wide web , law
In response to numerous stimuli, educational systems are changing worldwide. The stimuli include the globalization of learning made possible by the Internet and new computer technologies, and they include demands for new types of learning necessitated by the growth of knowledge‐intensive jobs in today's economies. The authors, building on 8 years of STEM education practical experience with 10 countries, reflect on their practice with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology BLOSSOMS programme. The intent is twofold: (i) to describe the BLOSSOMS programme, which provides freely available interactive STEM video lessons for high school classes worldwide and (ii) to extrapolate from these experiences certain systems problems within traditional STEM education at the secondary school level and to offer recommendations for change. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.