Collaborative Research: Using MARGINS Research Data Resources in the Classroom: Developing and Testing Multidiscipinary Mini-Lessons

地质学(42)这个合作项目正在生成和测试一套多学科的课程材料，称为Margance Mini-Lessons，它重新调整了丰富的数据和可视化资源的用途，这些资源是由NSF-Markets计划支持的项目开发的，用于入门和高级本科课程。首席调查员是边缘教育指导委员会和/或边缘教育/外联咨询委员会的所有成员，他们正在通过边缘教育小型研讨会让边缘学术界参与这项工作。在那里，与会者将深入了解四项利润率科学计划的现状，以及各种数据存储库和信息资源存储利润率的结果。讲习班参与者正在确定迷你课程要解决的关键内容领域，并与首席调查员和模块评估小组一起参与其开发和测试。在成功模式的基础上，正在开发几种不同类型的边际迷你课程，包括4-6个大型课程。一个由边缘教育/外联咨询委员会成员组成的资源和支助小组正在与微型课程开发人员合作，以确保完成的单元遵循最佳教育做法，并经过有效的测试和评估。讲习班产生的较小规模的想法被制作成较短的迷你课程，并通过标准化的在线评估资源得到支持，教师可以使用这些资源来测试其有效性并报告结果。这个项目的学术价值在于它挖掘了跨学科教育材料的广泛边际数据库，这将把现代地球科学的现实带入本科课程。该项目更广泛的影响在于它努力通过模块开发过程建立一个由边缘研究人员和教育工作者组成的基础广泛的教育社区。这些模块本身正在两年制和四年制大学校园的一系列本科地球科学课程中使用，并正在接触到不同的学生受众。

Geology (42)This collaborative project is generating and testing a set of multidisciplinary course materials, called MARGINS Mini-Lessons, that repurpose the rich data and visualization resources that have been developed by projects supported through the NSF-MARGINS Program for use in introductory and upper level undergraduate courses. The Principal Investigators, all members of the MARGINS Steering Committee and/or the MARGINS Education/Outreach Advisory Committee, are engaging the MARGINS academic community in this effort through a MARGINS Education Mini-Workshop. There, participants gain insight into the current state of the four MARGINS Science Initiatives, and the varied data repositories and information resources housing MARGINS results. Workshop participants are identifying key content areas to address with Mini-Lessons, and are participating in their development and testing in concert with the Principal Investigators and the module assessment team. Several different varieties of MARGINS Mini Lessons are being developed, based on successful models, including 4-6 large-scale lessons. A resource and support team, comprising members from the MARGINS Education/Outreach Advisory Committee, is working with Mini-Lesson developers to ensure that the completed modules follow best educational practices and are effectively tested and assessed. Smaller-scale ideas arising from the workshop are being produced as shorter Mini-Lessons, and supported through standardized online assessment resources that instructors can use to test their effectiveness and report back results. The intellectual merit of this project lies in its mining of the extensive MARGINS data repository for interdisciplinary educational materials that will bring the realities of modern earth science into undergraduate courses. The broader impacts of this project lie in its efforts to build a broad-based educational community of MARGINS researchers and educators through the module development processes. The modules themselves are being used in a range of undergraduate geoscience courses on both two- and four-year college campuses, and are reaching diverse student audiences.