Chris Mead and Geoffrey Bruce from the ETX Center traveled to the Arctic earlier this month to start gathering assets for “Polar Explorer”.  Polar Explorer is a virtual reality teaching tool being developed in collaboration with scientists at Northern Arizona University, the Arizona Geological Survey at the University of Arizona, and the National Snow and…

Infiniscope’s newest lesson release, “Fate of the Plates,” dives beneath the Earth’s crust to explore the mechanics of plate tectonics. The lesson features a simulation that allows students to model plate boundary interactions and observe the features formed at different plate boundaries. The NGSS-aligned lesson helps learners to answer the central question: How does convection…

The ETX Center, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative, is creating general chemistry courseware to address equity gaps in first-year chemistry courses. With a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, the project aims to address inequitable outcomes that are in a large part a result of chemistry instruction that is not…

The ETX Center is excited to have students in its two flagship courses, HabWorlds and BioBeyond, on the new Torus platform from Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative and hosted by Argos Education. HabWorlds and BioBeyond launched as universal learner courses through ASU’s Learning Enterprise at the beginning of May, expanding opportunities for non-traditional students. The…

The ETX Center was doubly present in the exhibit hall at the 2022 Astrobiology Science Conference in Atlanta, Georgia representing both Studio Services and the NASA SCoPE project. The SCoPE team was there recruiting subject matter experts (SMEs) to learn about the Science Activation network. The SCoPE project met with over 100 SMEs to talk…