Sharing a powerful IDEA: learning organizations collaborating to innovate and design engaging applications in STEM education

摘要

This collaborative effort allowed the team to share and further a powerful idea of innovating and engaging new applications in STEM education, provided the opportunity to grow as reflective practitioners and researchers, and resulted in a robust multinational PLC. These topics are important across continents. Navigating time constraints and distance is feasible through communication, attention to objectives and clarity in goals, and a desire to learn outside of one's usual comfort zones. Collaborating to teach important STEM and PBL concepts has been a transformative opportunity for all members of the learning organizations. Listening and reflecting to collaborators using on-the-ground interactions and survey research methodology allows for a greater understanding of needs and perceptions. This effort creates and supports the notion of lifelong learning and innovation for both the students and the educators involved in this powerful effort.