STEMEd+ Commons is a new digital commons for STEM education research. STEMEd+ Commons seeks to transform of the research enterprise to embrace an “ours, not mine” view of research, expertise, resources, and power - collaboration as a norm rather than competition. Housed under the umbrella of the Knowledge Commons – an academy-owned and governed, open access, and open source nonprofit – STEMEd+ Commons provides a space for the global STEM education research community to collaborate, share and create cutting-edge research and innovative pedagogy – a space that does not and will not monetize users’ intellectual and personal data. Users can build profiles, join scholar-practitioner communities, share scholarship, publish materials, and search a repository from journal content to multimedia and datasets, and more. Upcoming functionality will also allow journals to publish, review, and curate their collections. STEMEd+ Commons adheres to TRUST, FAIR, and CARE principles in its design.
Meet the Core STEMEd+ Commons Team
Dr. Julie Libarkin. Dr. Libarkin is a Professor of Earth & Environmental Science. She has served as Chair of the Geoscience Education Division of Geological Society of America and Editor of Journal of Geoscience Education.
Dr. Linnea Beckett. Dr. Beckett is a Research Associate with Create For STEM Institute at Michigan State University. She is an anthropologist of education with expertise in community-engaged and participatory methodologies. She is currently the project manager for STEMEd+ Commons.
Dr. Marcos (Danny) Caballero, co-PI. Dr. Caballero is Lappan-Philips Associate Professor in Physics and Computational Science. He co-leads three complimentary DBER+ research groups in physics education, computational education, and quantitative STEM education research.
Dr. Shiv Smith Karunakaran, co-PI. Dr. Karunakaran is Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department and Program in Mathematics Education (PRIME). He has previously served as Organizational Director for the Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on RUME, the primary research community for undergraduate mathematics education research.
Dr. Tammy Long, co-PI. Dr. Long is Associate Professor in Plant Biology. She is co-Director and co-PI of the interdisciplinary graduate training program NSF NRT- IMPACTS (Integrated Training Model in Plant and Computational Science) and serves on the editorial board of CBE-Life Sciences Education. Dr. Aaron McKim, Senior Personnel. Dr. McKim is Assistant Professor in Agricultural Education. He currently serves as a co-chair of the S1071 multistate research project bringing together agricultural STEM Education researchers.