What innovations, products and resources created by ATE centers continue to influence technician education after center funding ends?
About
The ATE program has made significant investments into national, regional and resource centers to promote collaborations of community colleges and the scaling and sustainability of advanced technological education at community colleges that educate students for participation in the high technology workforce. Many of these centers lasted many years over several funding cycles, often starting out as regional centers before scaling up nationally.
This project will explore the legacy of ATE centers by investigating which ideas, innovations, knowledge and products developed by the center that continue to evolve and be used. This project will ask 8 of the ATE centers that have concluded over the last 10 years (of which there are 15), to provide an “epilogue” to their final report using a common reporting template, and to participate in a structured interview.
Our Team
Rebecca Zarch
Principal Investigator
SageFox Consulting Group
Alan Peterfreund
Co - Principal Investigator
SageFox Consulting Group
Gerhard Salenger
Co - Principal Investigator
Advisory Board
Ann Beheler
Arlen Gulickson
Chris Dede
Duncan McBride
James Dearing
ATE Epilogue
Exploring Past Investment in Learning Through Grant-Funded Undergraduate Advanced Technology Education Centers
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (ATE Award #1821248). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.