Team and Acknowledgements
To accomplish the goals of the project, eight colleagues representing four academic disciplines (mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology) met regularly over the course of nearly five years. Although many of these meetings were dedicated to iteratively refining the video scripts, we became a community of practice that discussed a wide range of issues in science and mathematics education, as well as scientific and mathematical thinking more generally. This work led to multiple publications and presentations to help advance the field. For the videos themselves, individual team members took turns leading script development and production, but each video is very much a collective effort.
Mathematics
The mathematics videos use instructor-led and instructor-student scenarios to explain foundational rate of change concepts. Videos were produced by John Eggers (Differential Equations), Laura Stevens (Rate and Sign, Graphical Representations), and Jeff Rabin (Integration).
Physics
The physics videos use instructor-student interactions and student-student scenarios to demonstrate physics rate of change concepts in the context of basketball, running, skateboarding and the behavior of a mass on a spring. The physics videos were all produced by Adam Burgasser.
Chemistry
The chemistry videos use instructor-student and student-student scenarios to illustrate rate of change concepts in reaction kinetics, hydrogen cars, tie dye, and gas chromatography. They were produced by Sherry Seethaler (Differential Equations, Graphical Representations) and Thom Bussey (Rate and Sign, Integration).
Biology
The biology rate of change videos use student-student scenarios about seal populations, the role of yeast in breadmaking, predation of wolves on moose, and troubleshooting a flow cytometer to demonstrate rate of change concepts in biology. All the biology videos were produced by Stanley Lo.
Current Research
The current research videos focus on how rate of change concepts are relevant to cutting-edge scientific research. Topics covered include RNA in the origin of life, behavior of pharmaceutical substances in the human body, and the study of solar flares. All the current research videos were produced by Haim Weizman.
Acknowledgments
In addition to our community of practice, Adam Burgasser, Thomas Bussey, John Eggers, Stanley Lo, Jeff Rabin, Sherry Seethaler, Laura Stevens, Haim Weizman and our late colleague, Jeff Remmel, the project benefited from a long list of contributors. This includes the major contributions of the UC San Diego Educational Technology Services team, as well as that of our student actors.
The project was supported by an NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Engaged Student Learning Exploration Grant (1610193). Seethaler was PI.
Educational Technology Services Team. Our three-year project stretched into five years as we struggled with pandemic-related delays in filming. We are grateful for the amazing ETS team that worked with us the entire time and so ably carried out the filming and editing and created the animations for the project, especially Seth Marshburn, Jordi Oliman and Nate Bayless. We are also grateful to Robin Martin, for overseeing the team, and to his predecessor Craig Bentley, who helped with the project formulation.
Student Actors. The actors (other than the faculty team members) were UC San Diego undergraduate and graduate students in STEM and STEM education. We would like to thank Leila Brasfield (chemistry video), Danica Cajigas (chemistry video), David Callahan (production assistance, chemistry video), Ernesto Calleros (math video), Kathleen Chao (current research videos), Achol Chowdhury (biology videos), Peter Emanuel (biology videos), Devin Flanagan (chemistry video), Peyton Graves (current research videos), Leah Grayson (current research video), Susan Hou (biology videos), Tina Marcroft (chemistry video), Makenna Martin (chemistry video), Dora Ogbonna (biology and mathematics videos), Riley Peacock (chemistry and current research videos), Nicole Suarez (chemistry video), Ceres Trinh (chemistry video), Ashley Warner (physics videos).
Instructor Partners. We are also grateful to the many community college and undergraduate instructors who provided formative feedback and helped us disseminate the products. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers and editors who provided feedback on the papers we published as part of this project.
