Are You a Dot? Describing the Landscape of Astronomy Instruction in U. S. Community Colleges Using the NASA Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) Web-Delivered, Searchable Map.

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Dec 2005

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American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #92.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1321

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The NASA Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) is devoted to the professional development of introductory astronomy instructors, with the primary goal of building a ``community of practice." Prior to building a community of practice, however, one must try to understand the landscape in which the community is being built. To help accomplish this, CAE set out to answer the following questions: (1) Which U. S. community colleges teach astronomy? (2) What do they call it? (3) Who is doing the teaching?
Initial results identified over 1000 U. S. public, 2-year, accredited, degree granting institutions. Of these, over 700 offer courses in astronomy. These courses are taught under the headings of astronomy, physics, geology, Earth science, and natural science (to name a few), by more than 1300 instructors.
With these data, CAE has created a web-delivered, searchable, Interactive Map of 2-Year Colleges that provides institutional information (including course catalogue numbers and minority designation) for all U. S. public, 2-year, accredited, degree granting institutions offering courses in astronomy.
The NASA Center for Astronomy Education is supported by the JPL Navigator Public Engagement Program (and its planet-finding missions, including SIM PlanetQuest, the Terrestrial Planet Finder, the Keck Interferometer, and the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer) and by the Spitzer Space Telescope E/PO Program.

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