Eric N. Wiebe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of STEM Education & Senior Research Fellow at the Friday Institute
Contact Info
North Carolina State Univ
510M Poe Hall, Box 7801
Raleigh, NC 27695
Phone: 919-515-1753
Fax: 919-515-6892
eric_wiebe(at)ncsu.edu
Projects
Graphic Enhanced Elementary Science
The goal of this project is to create and assess teacher professional development materials that support effective use of student-generated graphics for science learning in grades 2-5. The primary context of use is with science notebooks and kit-based experiments in the classroom. The materials will help teachers support the creation and use of graphics by students during inquiry activities and as a formative assessment tool.
Maximizing the Impact of STEM Outreach through Data-driven Decision-Making (MISO)
The project's goal is to creatively integrate longitudinal evaluation with innovation within NC State's K-12 STEM outreach programs, particularly those funded by NSF, to help ensure the breadth and depth of the future U.S. STEM workforce. The vision for MISO is an integrated institutional structure that will allow pre-college programs to think and act strategically to meet their goals to enhance the STEM pipeline.
The Leonardo Project: An Intelligent Cyberlearning System for Interactive Scientific Modeling in Elementary Science Education
This project will look at the use of intelligent agents as part of an electronic science notebook to support learning in grades 4-5 science education.
Virtual Computing Lab-Community College Project
This project is conducting research and evaluation work surrounding the deployment of a cloud computing infrastructure, the Virtual Computing Lab, developed at North Carolina State University. While these technologies were first developed for use in higher education, its potential for delivering high-cost, specialized software to the community college system became immediately apparent. Evaluation done in conjunction with a series of pilot projects in community colleges included focus groups, large scale surveys, and system log file analysis. Data collected over the past year has shed light on the promise of the technology, the challenges to implementation and its likely impact on instruction. Future work will both expand the number of community colleges participating in pilots and begin work evaluating VCL in high schools.