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Upper Cumberland Rural STEM Initiative: Strategies and Challenges

Explore the $1.5 million grant, with $500,000 to Oakley STEM Center and $1 million to Putnam County Schools. The STEM Center acts as a hub to coordinate processes, create customizable lessons, and share best practices among partner schools. Engage teachers, professors, and professionals to collaborate on resources available on the HUB. Overcome adoption challenges and address user expectations through feedback and enhancing user entry points. Follow the steady user growth with increasing contributions and activity within various groups.

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Upper Cumberland Rural STEM Initiative: Strategies and Challenges

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  1. The Upper Cumberland Rural STEM Initiative Strategies and Challenges

  2. Upper Cumberland

  3. $1.5 million grant • $500,000 to Oakley STEM Center • $1 million to Putnam County Schools • STEM Center to “create a hub to • Coordinate processes among the partner schools to create customizable lessons and experiences for classrooms • Document activities and results from the UCRSI • Create a platform to communicate and share best practices between teachers in partner schools”

  4. Teachers Professors Professionals

  5. Resources on the HUB • Ask other teachers / professors / professionals • Collaborate to create a new resource

  6. Timeline

  7. Challenges • Adoption

  8. Challenges • User expectations • “I just stumbled on the Knowledge Base…and would never have guessed that this contained info on using the website! (I expected to find STEM-related literature.)” • “Questions and Answers seems like it would be teaching questions…but the comment, “Can't find an answer in our Knowledge Base or by Search?” implies to me it should relate to website questions, rather than teaching questions. ”

  9. Challenges • User ease of entry • Added “Quick Start” link to front page • Reduced number of enabled features • Pre-made groups

  10. We’re still just beginning our journey… • Resource contribution is low, but increasing • User growth steady, with surges as school systems join • Several groups with frequent activity

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