RESOURCES
General resources on teaching and learning and STEM education
Teaching & learning theories, methodologies, styles, and frameworks
Free research on STEM education from WILEY
International Journal of STEM Education (open access)
Puzzle-based learning methodology
STEM projects for 1st year undergraduate students
Science, Engineering & Maths Courses by FutureLearn (free)
Supplementary resources for teaching/learning of STEM subjects
The following are free digital supplementary resources for engaging students and enhancing teaching and learning of STEM subjects. They help take STEM education beyond 'business as usual'. Many of these resources are developed by the members of our Centre and/or our partners.
Mathematics Education
- Teaching mathematics in higher education: the basics and beyond (induction course for new lecturers)
- An internet magazine Plus of Cambridge University
- Counterexamples in Calculus e-book (by Sergiy Klymchuk)
- Paradoxes and Sophisms in Calculus e-book (by Sergiy Klymchuk and Susan Staples)
- Money Puzzles e-book (by Sergiy Klymchuk)
- PartickJMT: Just Maths Tutorials
- Math Centre
- Interactive graphing program
- Mathematics and science for life
Science Education
- Space Math @ NASA
- Physics education
- Science Puzzles e-book (by John Buckeridge, Sergei Gulyaev and Sergiy Klymchuk)
- Shape Puzzles e-book (by John Buckeridge, Sergei Gulyaev and Sergiy Klymchuk)
- Coulomb's Law
- The Quantum Conspiracy
- Physics for Kids: Simple Machines in Automobiles
- AUT Podcast: Will Humans ever get to the Stars?
- Selected Puzzles for Tertiary STEM Students
Engineering Education
- An internet magazine Prizm of the American Society for Engineering Education
- MIT open course ware
- Teaching computer hardware and organisation using PIC-based projects (by Nurul Sarkar).
- Electrical engineering labs (by David Nutt)
- Resources in engineering maths
- TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving)
- The Innovation Algorithm (by Genrich Altshuller)
Computer Science Education
- WebLan-Designer – a tool for enhancing learning and teaching computer networking (by Nurul Sarkar and the teaching team).