Biology Education Online -- An Interactive Electronic Journal

Biology Education Online是一个同行评审的在线科学教学期刊。其目标是将生物学教育数字资源的开发者和用户聚集在一起，这些资源涵盖从幼儿园到高中的范围，学院和大学的青年和成人，以及对生物学感兴趣的终身学习者。生物学教育在线利用一个两级在线同行评议系统，正在开发一系列新的、互动的、参与性的资源，并将其上传到网上，这些资源将互联网固有的多媒体能力用于促进科学的教与学，符合《国家科学教育标准》和《美国科学促进会科学素养基准》中固有的目标和标准。但是生物教育在线不仅仅是一个经过审查的数字资源的集合。交互式在线期刊本身既是教学资源，也是学习资源。一个两层的互动审查过程与留言板连接到每个张贴的资源的独特功能允许生物教育在线被用于新的和当前的教师的专业发展，以及开发人员和新材料的潜在开发人员的托儿所孵化器。例如，教师准备计划的教师可以将生物教育在线材料的持续审查过程作为学生评估和分析技能发展的一部分。通过这种方式，新教师不仅有一个高度同行评议的材料，用于开发他们的教学策略和投资组合的集合，他们也参与审查过程，并学习如何批判性地评估教材。生物学教育在线融合了用户和提供者。材料和资源本身的开发过程促进了社区的易用性，并通过创建一个苗圃孵化器来鼓励用户成为开发人员，用户可以在无威胁的社区环境中展示，测试，修改和发布新的想法和材料。作为一个同行评审的在线期刊，生物教育在线正在通过一个迭代的过程，需要两个层次的在线，互动审查之前，发布到正式的网站。生物教育在线创建一个强大的，发达的观众之间的协同作用，为数字教学和学习资源和一个行之有效的操作程序，提供这些资源。全国生物教师协会和Access Excellence正在合作开展这项奋进。

Biology Education Online is a peer-reviewed, online journal for teaching and learning science. The goal is to bring together developers and users of digital resources for biology education that span the range from kindergarten through high school, youth and adults in colleges and universities, and life-long learners interested in biology. Using a two-tiered, on-line peer-review system, Biology Education Online is developing and publishng to the web a collection of new, interactive, participatory resources that exemplify the multimedia capabilities inherent in the Internet for the advancement of teaching and learning science, consistent with the goals and standards inherent in the National Science Education Standards and the AAAS Benchmarks for Science Literacy. But Biology Education Online is much more than a collection of reviewed digital resources. The interactive online journal itself is both a teaching and learning resource. The unique features of a two-tiered interactive review process with message boards attached to each posted resource allows Biology Education Online to be used in professional development of new and current teachers as well a nursery incubator for developers and potential developers of new materials. For example, instructors in teacher preparation programs can incorporate the ongoing review process for Biology Education Online materials as part of the development of evaluative and analytic skills in their students. In this way, beginning teachers not only have a collection of highly peer-reviewed materials to use in developing their teaching strategies and portfolios, they also participate in the review process and learn how to critically evaluate teaching materials. Biology Education Online melds together users and providers. The development process for materials and the resources themselves promotes easy use by the community and encourage users to become developers by creating a nursery incubator where users can present, test, revise and publish new ideas and material in a non-threatening community setting. As a peer-reviewed online journal, Biology Education Online is being developed through an iterative process that requires two levels of online, interactive review prior to publishing to the formal Web site. Biology Education Online creates a synergy between a strong, well-developed audience for digital teaching and learning resources and a proven operational program for delivering those resources. The National Association of Biology Teachers and Access Excellence are collaborating in this endeavor.