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ETX Goes to the Arctic to Capture Media for a New iVFT
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ETX Goes to the Arctic to Capture Media for a New iVFT

Chris Mead and Geoffrey Bruce from the ETX Center traveled to the Arctic earlier this month to start gathering assets for “Polar Explorer”.  Polar Explorer is a virtual reality teaching tool being developed in collaboration with scientists at Northern Arizona University, the Arizona Geological Survey at the University of Arizona, and the National Snow and…

Infiniscope Releases New Experience on Plate Tectonics
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Infiniscope Releases New Experience on Plate Tectonics

Infiniscope’s newest lesson release, “Fate of the Plates,” dives beneath the Earth’s crust to explore the mechanics of plate tectonics. The lesson features a simulation that allows students to model plate boundary interactions and observe the features formed at different plate boundaries. The NGSS-aligned lesson helps learners to answer the central question: How does convection…

Prioritizing Equity in General Chemistry Courseware
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Prioritizing Equity in General Chemistry Courseware

The ETX Center, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative, is creating general chemistry courseware to address equity gaps in first-year chemistry courses. With a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, the project aims to address inequitable outcomes that are in a large part a result of chemistry instruction that is not…

Flagship Courses Launch on New Torus Platform
Opening screen for one of the courses, Stories in Rock
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Flagship Courses Launch on New Torus Platform

The ETX Center is excited to have students in its two flagship courses, HabWorlds and BioBeyond, on the new Torus platform from Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative and hosted by Argos Education. HabWorlds and BioBeyond launched as universal learner courses through ASU’s Learning Enterprise at the beginning of May, expanding opportunities for non-traditional students. The…

ETX Center at AbSciCon
The two ETX Center booths in the AbSciCon Exhibit Hall
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ETX Center at AbSciCon

The ETX Center was doubly present in the exhibit hall at the 2022 Astrobiology Science Conference in Atlanta, Georgia representing both Studio Services and the NASA SCoPE project. The SCoPE team was there recruiting subject matter experts (SMEs) to learn about the Science Activation network. The SCoPE project met with over 100 SMEs to talk…

Infiniscope at NSTA Houston
Infiniscope at the NASA booth during NSTA Houston 2022
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Infiniscope at NSTA Houston

Infiniscope joined the NASA team at the National Science Teaching Association Conference in Houston to share some of the free digital teaching resources and creative tools that are available to educators through the NASA-funded project. Infiniscope’s inquiry-driven, AI-tutored activities designed around NASA simulations and virtual field trips were a big hit with educators. As were…

Infiniscope Launches New Website
New Infiniscope Website
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Infiniscope Launches New Website

The Infiniscope project celebrated its seventh year with the launch of a brand new website featuring adaptive digital learning experiences built on the Open Learning initiative’s Torus platform. The new website has increased functionality for educators including advanced search and tagging options and offers single sign-on for Infiniscope’s digital authoring platform and virtual tour creator.…

Inquiry-Based, Active, Remote Learning Using UDL
Inquiry-Based, Active, Remote Learning Using UDL
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Inquiry-Based, Active, Remote Learning Using UDL

In response to educators continuing online in the fall semester, the Infiniscope team offered 94 educators from all over the U.S. a 3-day active learning online workshop held July 20-22, 2020. The workshop featured an overview of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) by Dr. Katie Novak in cooperation with WBGH’s Bringing the Universe to America’s…

Creating Place-Based, Active Learning Virtual Field Trips
Creating Place-Based, Active Learning Virtual Field Trips
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Creating Place-Based, Active Learning Virtual Field Trips

In response to educators transitioning to online teaching and learning, the Infiniscope team offered 43 educators from all over the U.S. a 4-day online workshop held July 14-17, 2020. This workshop focused toward creating virtual field trips that connect students to their community and promote learning that is rooted in students’ own “place” such as…

Mars 2020: Is There Life on Mars?
Mars 2020: Is There Life on Mars?
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Mars 2020: Is There Life on Mars?

On May 8, 2020, Infiniscope hosted Dr. Kenneth Williford from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Williford is the Deputy Project Scientist for the NASA Mars 2020 mission. He gave us the scoop on the various ways that Perseverance will be seeking signs of life on Mars. He also presented a mission overview including payload and…

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