STEMEdhub.org, a HUBzero hosted hub, at its core is focused on supporting, promoting and hosting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education Research. Due to the close nature of the work on STEMEdhub.org and the AAU STEM Education Undergraduate Initiative, we decided to collaborate on a set of super groups hosted on STEMEdhub.org. Not only do we have a main AAU super group, but we have individual AAU institution super groups as well. These groups provide STEM undergraduate education researchers with the ability to hold discussions amongst each other and to show off their work to administrators, policy makers, the press and the public. The individual institutions can use their groups extensively or as a conduit to a locally hosted site of their own. Along with the new super groups we also developed a database of undergraduate STEM Education Initiative Reform Efforts. The Reform Efforts are displayed in a unique block framework with a set of modifiable filters, making this the place to go to find out what research projects are going on right now in undergraduate STEM education.

Ann Bessenbacher is a Project Coordinator for the Discovery Learning Research Center at Purdue University. She is the technology steward for STEMEdhub.org and also works on the management team for CLEERhub.org. She is also the database administrator and curator for all of the assessment data at the DLRC. Before that Ann served as the Data Operations Manager at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. She works on the communities of practice for two different websites built on Purdue’s HUBzero technology. She has fifteen years of experience in the delivery of information and data, as well as the management and analysis in both scientific and administrative areas.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Ann Bessenbacher (2014), "The Use of Super Groups to Support AAU and the STEM Undergraduate Education Initiative," https://help.hubzero.org/resources/1237.

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