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）六个学院和八个系的教授团队建议建立一个本科课程开发试验台（UCDT），以促进整个学院的本科教育改革。该试验台将汇集创新的课程元素已经开发的建议团队的成员。具体来说，UCDT将建立在以前的经验和成功的跨学科本科讲座课程和实验室模块在地球系统科学和全球变化领域的设计。 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注入主要研究型大学的本科课程。跨学科课程，特别是那些涉及全球环境问题的课程，将是下一个世纪本科教育的一个组成部分。这种改革课程的发展面临着重大障碍，需要明确确定和克服-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）将促进在校内和校外更广泛地部署跨学科课程; 4）将评估新的跨学科本科教学学分计划的可行性。 此外，还将完成两个重点课程的编制活动。第一部分是导言部分“全球变化导论”。这些课程将通过加速开发计算机化的多媒体实验室模块、互联网资源和其他讲座材料得到改进。 第二个涉及的努力，将涉及新的NSF赞助的“全球变化实验室”的升级，提供良好的结构的机会，动手实验和数据分析的经验，为本科生。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，或作为夏季本科生研究机会计划的一部分。 将探讨在各部门和学校内实施新的教学学分计划，作为有效鼓励改进跨学科教学的手段。这些将与三个UM院长的直接参与。 试验台活动将受到教育的UM的学校进行的持续评估。