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

地质学（42）这个合作项目正在生成和测试一套多学科课程材料，称为MARGINS迷你课程，重新利用通过NSF-MARGINS计划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。 主要研究者，所有成员的MARGINS指导委员会和/或MARGINS教育/外联咨询委员会，正在从事的MARGINS学术界在这方面的努力，通过一个MARGINS教育小型研讨会。 在那里，参与者深入了解四个MARGINS科学倡议的现状，以及各种数据库和信息资源的住房MARGINS结果。 讲习班参与者正在确定微型课程要涉及的关键内容领域，并与主要调查员和单元评估小组一起参与微型课程的开发和测试。正在根据成功的模式开发几种不同的MARGINS微型课程，包括4-6个大型课程。 一个由MARGINS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，以确保完成的模块遵循最佳教育做法，并得到有效的测试和评估。 讲习班产生的小规模想法正在制作成较短的微型课程，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。 该项目的智力价值在于其挖掘广泛的MARGINS数据库，用于跨学科教育材料，将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进程，建立一个由MARGINS研究人员和教育工作者组成的基础广泛的教育界。 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，并接触到不同的学生群体。

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.