Developing Active Learning Modules on the Human Dimensions of Global Change

9455632汉森项目1)积极让教师、全球变化学者和具有教育学专业知识的人参与开发关于全球环境变化的人文方面的入门级活动课程模块，以及2)在美国地理学家协会(AAG)内建立一个程序，以开发、评估和传播这些入门课程和其他主动学习模块的入门课程。第一个目标是满足a)将最近的全球变化奖学金注入本科入门课程和b)积极让学生参与学习过程的需要。第二个目标是解决目前在地理学科内没有任何正式机制供本科生教师分享教学资源的问题。主要的预期结果是涉及全球环境变化的三个广泛组成部分的模块：1)人类和物质原因或变化的驱动力；2)这些力量产生的环境后果；3)人类对这些环境后果的反应。这些单元的核心概念是：a)人类原因、环境影响和人类反应如何因地点(地理区域)而异，以及b)各组成部分之间的关系如何受到分析的空间和时间尺度的影响(分别是地方、区域、全球；十年、百年、千年)。该项目还在AAG内建立了一个信息交换中心，在全国范围内传播用于入门课程的模块。这些单元将向每年参加地理入门课程的约500,000名学生的所有教师提供。一旦这个项目完成，AAG信息交换中心将继续开发和传播以活动为基础的本科生学习材料。

9455632 Hanson The project 1) actively involves faculty, global change scholars, and people with expertise in pedagogy in the development of introductory-level, activity-based course modules on the human dimensions of global environmental change, and 2) establishes a process within the Association of American Geographers (AAG) for the development, evaluation, and dissemination of these and other active-learning modules of introductory courses. The first goal addresses the needs to a) infuse recent global change scholarship into the introductory undergraduate curriculum and b) actively involve students in the learning process. The second goal seeks to address the current absence of any formal mechanism within the discipline of geography for the sharing of teaching and learning resources among undergraduate instructors. The principal expected outcomes are modules that speak to the three broad components of global environmental change: 1) the human and physical causes or driving forces of change; 2) the environmental consequences produced by these forces; and 3) the human responses to these environmental consequences. Central to these modules are the concepts of a) how human causes, environmental impacts, and human response vary by location (geographic area), and b) how the relationships among components are affected by the spatial and temporal scales of analysis (local, regional, global; decadal, centennial, millennial respectively). The project also establishes a clearinghouse within the AAG to disseminate the modules for use in introductory courses nationwide. The modules will be available to all instructors of some 500,000 students who are enrolled in introductory geography courses annually. Once this project is completed, the AAG clearinghouse will continue to develop and disseminate activity-based undergraduate learning materials.