NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Outreach Session

Don't miss this unique opportunity to foster deeper understanding of the context, challenges, and opportunities of technician education research in America's 2-year colleges.

SRI International and The University of Colorado are hosting an outreach session at AERA to introduce this new research and funding opportunity. This session begins a conversation to set a research agenda for technological education.

Speakers in the session are:

• Frances Lawrenz, University of Minnesota
• Nick Smith, Syracuse University
• Chris Dede, Harvard University
• Karen Marrongelle, Program Officer, National Science Foundation
• Liesel Ritchie, University of Colorado
• Elaine Craft, Director, SC ATE Center of Excellence
• Wayne Welch, University of Minnesota, Retired
• Louise Yarnall, SRI International

If you are a researcher, a community college practitioner or in industry and work with new technicians, you should plan to attend this session.

DATE:		Tuesday April 14, 2009
TIME:		9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
PLACE:		AERA at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Annie Room One Market Place San Diego, CA
AGENDA:		Click here for a sneak peek of our agenda.
RSVP:		Please RSVP here.

The meeting effort kicks off at 9am to 11am, Tuesday, April 14 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in the Annie Room. After this AERA meeting, there will be a series of webinars focused on promising research themes regarding technician education designed in response to the needs you have to help you start a new program of research. The webinars will culminate in the development of a prototype research community support system based on the NSF-supported Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL).

National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program

1. To learn more about the ATE Centers, please go here.


2. To learn more about the ATE Research Outreach project, please go here.


3. To learn more about the ATE Targeted Research Umbrella project, please go here.

For more information please go here.