Students can view their data as visualizations and compare to remote sensing data taken from LandSat. They have trained teachers in Idaho as well as Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Iowa, Missouri, Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania. They have also trained teachers in Africa, Spain, Mexico, and Canada. Dr. Kennedy received another grant from the ISGC to train Foreign Language teachers. NOVA seeks to improve science, mathematics, and engineering courses by working with teams of discipline and education faculty in restructuring undergraduate content courses.
Teams attend a workshop to learn about the latest in pedagogy, standards, and technology.
The NOVA team conducts site visits after courses are restructured. Successful NOVA Network institutions are then eligible for Phase II and Phase III funding. Phase II focuses on dissemination while phase III focuses on web-based course delivery. The UI College of Education is the lead institution for technology and online learning for the NOVA network. The network consists of 56 institutions in the ranging in size from Michigan State University to Lewis Clark State College in Idaho.