the results offer evidence that designating full-time faculty members to focus chiefly on teaching, particularly at research-intensive universities like Northwestern, may not be the cause for alarm that many see. It may even improve students' learning.
"Perhaps," they wrote, "the growing practice of hiring a combination of research-intensive tenure-track faculty members and teaching-intensive lecturers may be an efficient and educationally positive solution to a research university's multitasking problem."
The Academy offers a wide variety of STEMx topics offered as online workshops, mini-courses, or "massively open online courses" (MOOC's) that are fun, practical, and engaging. Topics include "Helping students solve community challenges through app design" (offered by AppsforGood.org), "Game Design for Learning" (offered by LearningGamesNetwork.org), "Using Remote Science Labs" (offered by Northwestern University) and more.
Educators earn recognition from the host institution and from the HP Catalyst Academy by collecting electronic badges.