ICE Math & Science Collaborative Initiative

Meeting Math and Science Teacher Education and In-Service Training Needs in the West

 

Join your STEM colleagues at other ICE member institutions

  • Find out how to share existing high quality online STEM courses via ICE
  • Learn about inner institutional efforts to design new online math & science courses for secondary teachers
  • Share your interests in collaborating with your colleagues on delivering math and science undergraduate and master’s level online courses (pre-service and in-service)    

  

Presenters 

Kim Obbink, Director, Extended University, Montana State University & Chair, ICE Math & Science Collaborative Initiative

Kim Obbink is director of the Burns Telecommunications Center at Montana State University-Bozeman, providing support for the development and delivery of distance-learning and outreach programs. She has been involved with the development of a number of national distance-learning programs, including the National Teachers Enhancement Network, funded by the National Science Foundation, which provided the first online professional development for science teachers. She has worked at the state, regional, and national levels to support distance-learning efforts in rural areas and is currently principal investigator on distance-learning grants from NSF, the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, AT&T, and the U.S. Dept. of Education. She holds an Ed.D. in adult and higher education from Montana State University.
Pat Shea, Director, WICHE ICE

Pat Shea is director of Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) Internet Course Exchange (ICE), a consortium of regionally accredited institutions of higher education exchanging high quality e-learning courses and programs in response to student, state, and workforce needs.  For WICHE she also directs the Western Academic Leadership Forum (WALF), providing academic leaders at master’s level and doctoral institutions in WICHE’s 15 member states with the opportunities to exchange ideas and information, share resources and expertise, and collaborate on regional initiatives. Prior to these positions, Shea was assistant director of WCET for which she headed its research efforts in best practices in student services online and directed the development of its academic program for the annual conference.