Collaborative Research: Ocean Learning Communities - Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence

COSEE-海洋学习社区(COSEE-OLC)的中心前提是，如果公民要意识到海洋对他们的身体和经济健康的影响，如果要加强公民对海洋环境的管理，他们就需要具备海洋科学知识，并了解当前的研究情况。华盛顿大学海洋和渔业科学学院、华盛顿大学教育学院和西雅图水族馆将建立一个“海洋学习社区-COSEE”(OLC-COSEE)，这是一个主题COSEE，将促进海洋学研究社区、学习社区、公众和海运业之间的合作。OLC-COSEE将利用教育学院NSF资助的非正式和正式环境学习(LIFE)“学习科学”研究中心的专业知识和资源，以及每个合作伙伴现有的外展和教育努力。COSEE-COSEE将组织、培养和维持由不同利益相关者组成的以科学为基础的、海洋知情的学习社区，这些社区将合作促进健全的海洋教育。OLC-COSEE的主要催化活动将是创建海洋学习社区，或传统上截然不同的利益攸关方的聚会，如科学家、教育工作者、与海洋有联系的企业代表以及从海洋获得经济或娱乐食物的公民。通过有组织的学习活动，社区将发展一种共同语言，并承诺建立合作，以提高区域和国家层面的海洋研究和公众意识。公民和科学家将通过学习社区共同学习。公民将成为专门的科学家，因为他们学习基本的海洋科学概念和术语。科学家们将学习如何让公民参与进来。这些学习经验将创造一个促进变革的循环，最终导致公民拥有技能、承诺和效率，与COSEE-OLC合作伙伴合作，增加支持教育和外展的以科学为基础的合作签名项目。PI、评估团队和来自每个合作伙伴机构的其他参与者组成了一个学习社区，并开始通过对问题、合作伙伴和教育可能性的持续讨论来建立共同语言和目标的旅程。咨询委员会成员包括参议员、高级军事人员、一名前宇航员、纽约美国自然历史博物馆副馆长和全部落印第安人联盟基金会首席执行官。在该委员会的专业知识指导下，该伙伴关系将促进和研究海洋科学的新学习模式，并吸引更多资金支持正在进行的活动。很少有学习模式关注海洋科学及其相关研究问题的跨学科、快速变化、技术驱动和仍然是探索性的性质。海洋学习社区的方法将提供以科学和认知研究为基础的教育实践，可通过国家COSEE网络传播，以促进海洋学社区对我国海洋教育力量的理解。

COSEE- Ocean Learning Communities' (COSEE-OLC) central premise is that citizens need to become ocean science literate and informed by current research if they are to be aware of the impact the oceans have on their physical and economic health, and if increased citizen stewardship of the marine environment is to occur. The University of Washington's College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, the University of Washington's College of Education and the Seattle Aquarium will establish an "Ocean Learning Communities - COSEE" (OLC-COSEE), a thematic COSEE that will foster collaborations among the oceanography research community, the science of learning community, the general public, and the maritime industry. OLC-COSEE will leverage the expertise and resources of the College of Education's NSF-funded Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) "Science of Learning" Research Center as well as each of the partners' existing outreach and educational efforts.COSEE-OLC will organize, cultivate and sustain science-based, ocean-informed Learning Communities composed of diverse stakeholders, including the maritime business community, who will collaborate to promote sound oceans education. OLC-COSEE's main catalytic activity will be creating Ocean Learning Communities, or gatherings of traditionally disparate stakeholders such as scientists, educators, representatives from businesses with a connection to the oceans, and citizens who derive economic or recreational sustenance from the oceans. Through structured learning activities, the communities will develop a common language and a commitment to creating collaborations that will improve ocean research and public awareness at the regional and national levels.Citizens and scientists will learn together through the Learning Community. Citizens will becomecitizen-scientists as they learn basic ocean science concepts and terminology. Scientists will learnhow to engage citizens. The learning experiences will create a catalytic cycle of change culminatingin citizens with the skills, commitment and efficacy to work with the COSEE-OLC partners increating collaborative, science-based signature projects supporting education and outreach.The PI's, the evaluation team, and additional participants from each partner institution have formed a learning community and begun the journey of establishing common language and goals through sustaineddiscussions of issues, partners, and educational possibilities. Guided by the expertise of an Advisory Committee including senators, high-ranking military personnel, a former astronaut, the vice president of the American Museum of Natural History in New-York and the chief executive officer of the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation , the partnership will foster and study new learning models in ocean sciences and attract additional funds to support on-going activities. Very few learning models focus on the interdisciplinary, fast-changing, technology-driven and still exploratory nature of ocean sciences and its associated research questions. The Ocean Learning Communities' approach will provide bothscience and cognitive research-based educational practices that can be disseminated through the National COSEE Network to advance the oceanography community's understanding of the power ofoceanography education for our nation.