Category: About Us
The Concord Consortium’s staff is a diverse group of individuals with extensive backgrounds in education and technology. They all share a drive for pushing the boundaries of educational technology.
We’ve collaborated with some of the best schools and educational organizations in the world. Below is just a small sampling of institutions we’ve worked with in our mission to realize the promise of educational technology.
Concord Consortium board members comprise a distinguished group of educators and business people.
It all started with a single demo. The biggest connections between technology and education had a tiny beginning. The revolution really began with an idea: that a tiny thermal sensor – originally intended for industry, and tucked inside a single test tube – might help students measure heating and cooling during phase changes. That idea […]
The March 2017 issue of The Science Teacher features “The future of energy: Having students compare the effects of different energy sources on the environment,” an article on the High-Adventure Science energy module by Amy Pallant, Sarah Pryputniewicz, and Hee-Sun Lee.
The Community College Journal of Research and Practice has published a new article by Paul Horwitz, Alina von Davier, John Chamberlain, Al Koon, Jessica Andrews, and Cynthia McIntyre in January 2017.
Concord Consortium senior scientist Charles Xie and his team’s Infrared Street View proposal has won the JUMP Competition for new ideas in saving energy in homes based on smartphone technologies.
A new article appears in the May issue of the Journal of Geoscience Education, featuring the Transforming Remotely Conducted Research through Ethnography, Education, and Rapidly Evolving Technologies (TREET) project. We describe eight undergraduate students’ experiences conducting ocean science research using telepresence, and lessons learned about the promise and challenges of using telepresence to engage undergraduate students in authentic research.
We’re thrilled to present five videos in the National Science Foundation STEM for All Video Showcase from May 17 to 23! We invite you to view the videos and join the conversation about the latest research in STEM and computer science teaching and learning. Please vote for our videos through Facebook, Twitter, or email!
We’re thrilled to be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the fourth year running! Two international students will spend the summer coding for our open source projects, and through GSoC, they’ll earn stipends from Google, plus get a coveted GSoC t-shirt and certificate.