Development, Deployment, and Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Curriculum Development Testbed (UCDT)

跨学科本科课程开发测试平台（UCDT）的开发、部署和评估

• 批准号: 9652117
• 负责人: Timothy Killeen
• 金额: $ 19.95万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-07-15 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9652117&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Deployment; Evaluation; Interdisciplinary; Undergraduate

A team of professors from six schools and eight departments at the University of Michigan (UM) proposes to build an Undergraduate Curriculum Development Testbed (UCDT) to foster institution-wide reform of undergraduate education. The Testbed will bring together innovative curricular elements already developed by members of the proposing team. Specifically, the UCDT will build on the previous experience and success in the design of interdisciplinary undergraduate lecture courses and laboratory modules in the field of earth system science and global change. The overall goal of the proposed work is to establish improved methodologies for the infusion of interdisciplinary courses and materials into the undergraduate programs of major research universities. Interdisciplinary courses, and particularly those involving global environmental issues, will be an integral part of undergraduate education for the next century. The development of such a reformed curriculum faces significant obstacles that need to be identified clearly and overcome - this is a major objective for the UCDT. The project will provide the following: 1) further development of an interdisciplinary courses in global change; 2) development and evaluation of generalizable tools and templates for interdisciplinary courses; 3) will promote more widespread deployment of interdisciplinary courses on and off campus; 4) will assess the viability of new teaching credit schemes for interdisciplinary undergraduate teaching. Additionally, two focused course development activities will be completed. The first pertains to the introductory sequence "Introduction to Global Change". These courses will be improved through the accelerated development of computerized, multimedia laboratory modules, Internet resources, and other lecture materials. The second involves efforts that will involve the upgrade of the new NSF-sponsored "Global Change Laboratory" to provide well-structured opportunities for hands-on experimental and data analysis ex periences for undergraduates. This work will involve the development and documentation of specific experiments to be conducted as part of formal undergraduate course requirements, or as part of summer undergraduate research opportunity programs. New teaching credit schemes within departments and schools will be explored as means to provide effective incentives for improved interdisciplinary teaching. These will be worked out with the direct involvement of three UM deans. The Testbed activity will be subject to a continuous evaluation carried out by the UM's School of Education.

来自密歇根大学 (UM) 六所学院和八个系的教授团队提议建立本科课程开发测试平台 (UCDT)，以促进全校范围内的本科教育改革。测试平台将汇集提案团队成员已经开发的创新课程元素。具体来说，UCDT将借鉴以往在地球系统科学和全球变化领域设计跨学科本科讲座课程和实验室模块的经验和成功经验。 拟议工作的总体目标是建立改进的方法，将跨学科课程和材料融入主要研究型大学的本科课程中。跨学科课程，特别是那些涉及全球环境问题的课程，将成为下世纪本科教育不可或缺的一部分。这种改革课程的开发面临着需要明确识别和克服的重大障碍——这是 UCDT 的一个主要目标。 该项目将提供以下内容：1）进一步开发全球变化跨学科课程； 2）开发和评估跨学科课程的通用工具和模板； 3）将促进跨学科课程在校内外更广泛的部署； 4）将评估跨学科本科教学新教学学分计划的可行性。 此外，还将完成两项重点课程开发活动。第一个部分涉及介绍性序列“全球变化简介”。这些课程将通过加速开发计算机化、多媒体实验室模块、互联网资源和其他讲座材料来改进。 第二项工作涉及升级由美国国家科学基金会资助的新“全球变化实验室”，为本科生提供结构良好的实践实验和数据分析经验的机会。这项工作将涉及具体实验的开发和记录，作为正式本科课程要求的一部分，或作为暑期本科生研究机会计划的一部分。 将探索院系和学校内新的教学学分计划，作为为改善跨学科教学提供有效激励的手段。这些将在三名密歇根大学院长的直接参与下制定。 测试平台活动将接受密西根大学教育学院的持续评估。