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

这个合作项目正在生成和测试一套多学科课程材料，称为边际迷你课程，它重新利用由nsf -边际项目支持的项目开发的丰富数据和可视化资源，用于入门和高级本科课程。主要研究人员、边际指导委员会和/或边际教育/外展咨询委员会的所有成员，正在通过边际教育小型研讨会与边际学术界共同参与这项工作。在那里，参与者可以深入了解四个边际科学计划的现状，以及包含边际结果的各种数据存储库和信息资源。讲习班参与者正在确定迷你课程要解决的关键内容领域，并与主要研究人员和模块评估小组一起参与迷你课程的开发和测试。基于成功的模式，我们正在开发几种不同的边际迷你课程，包括4-6次大规模课程。由边际教育/外展咨询委员会成员组成的资源和支持团队正在与迷你课程开发人员合作，确保完成的模块遵循最佳教育实践，并进行有效的测试和评估。讲习班中产生的规模较小的想法正在制作成较短的迷你课程，并通过标准化的在线评估资源提供支持，教师可以使用这些资源来测试其有效性并报告结果。这个项目的智力价值在于它挖掘了广泛的跨学科教育材料的边缘数据库，这些材料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广泛的边际研究人员和教育工作者的教育社区。这些模块本身被用于两年制和四年制大学校园的一系列本科地球科学课程，并吸引了不同的学生受众。

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.