GREGORY T RUSHTON, PHD

gregory.rushton@mtsu.edu

GREGORY T. RUSHTON, PHD

TN STEM EDUCATION CENTER

Smart Classroom

MILLER EDUCATION CENTER (MEC), 3RD FLOOR, ROOM 3010

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The Tennessee STEM Education Center (TSEC) provides services for MTSU students and faculty to enhance instruction and educational research across STEM. Part of the mission of TSEC is to promote high quality STEM education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels using state-of-the-art technologies and innovative teaching techniques. Miller Education Center (MEC) Room 3010 (a proposed classroom space) will be converted to a modular master classroom with video and audio capture for classroom observation and a smart board. Faculty members and program directors teaching 16 courses enrolling 434 students in 2017-2018 have already requested the master classroom because no teaching spaces with the proposed equipment and configuration are currently available on campus. Eligible undergraduate courses in 3 colleges (CBAS, CoEd, and CBHS), are focused on teaching future STEM teachers how to teach: MSE 1010, 2010; MATH 3220, 3230; BIOL 3000; YOED 3520, 3550, 4040, 4050; or education research methods: MATH 4540, BIO/CHEM/GEO/PHYS 4740. Undergraduate STEM courses (e.g. CHEM 1010) employing innovative pedagogies for scholarly study and dissemination are also potential users. Graduate STEM courses that will use the room for instruction on and practice of teaching: MSE 7001, 7170, 7900. The listed courses alone would generate an initial utilization rate of 59%, or 5.0 hours per day. In Spring 2019, TSEC submitted a TAF proposal to renovate Fairview (FAIR) 201 but this facility does not provide adequate and appropriate physical access (e.g., an elevator) for mobility-challenged faculty, staff or students to use the space, hence the need for the present request.