by Steve Willingham | Aug 17, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, Manufacturing, Resources, Robotics, STEM
The Maker Movement is a theoretical and physical embodiment of constructivism that will reform how we educate students. (Roffey, 2015) Education grounded in “making” has the capacity to transform the way we think about pedagogy and learning (Kurti, Kurti, &...
by Steve Willingham | Jul 24, 2018 | Education, Manufacturing, Resources, STEM
There are lots of online training platforms and resources, and we’ve featured some of our favorites here before, like SolidProfessor, which focuses on specific certification needs, and Skills Commons, an Open Educational Resources (OER) platform. 180Skills...
by Steve Willingham | Jul 16, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Resources, STEM
As schools and youth advocacy groups look to improve equity and access in providing more effective science and tech education resources and programming in educational environments, other organizations are focusing on the critical afterschool period, in which students...
by Steve Willingham | Jul 13, 2018 | Education, Resources, STEM
Developed by the US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) SkillsCommons is a free and open online library chock-full of learning and program support materials for job-driven workforce development....
by Steve Willingham | Jul 9, 2018 | AMRoC, Education, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, Manufacturing, Resources, STEM
We’ve worked with Tony Glockler, CEO and Co-founder of SolidProfessor, for about a year now and continue to work closely with him on the development of some training platforms we’ll be using at AMRoC, the Advanced Manufacturing & Robotics Center. Last...
by Steve Willingham | Jul 3, 2018 | Education, Foundation for Community Driven Innovation, Manufacturing, Resources, Robotics, STEM
In our continuing look at area manufacturers and manufacturing partners in the Tampa Bay area, this week we’re happy to share the story of SOFWERX. While not a manufacturing facility in the traditional sense, SOFWERX manufacturers a wealth of projects in...
