Summary
Recent efforts to spread the use of research‐based instructional strategies by faculty who teach
undergraduate STEM courses has met with some successes and many failures. Currently, most faculty
know about these alternative instructional strategies and appear to value them. On the other hand, the
level of use of these strategies remains low and many faculty who use these strategies modify them to
be more like traditional instruction. In the following section we discuss some ways that change agents
might have more of an impact.