Modular Digital Course in Undergraduate Neuroscience Education-Revised (MDCUNE-R)

智力优势：该项目正在创建三个最先进的实验室研究模块，包括“本科神经科学教育模块化数字课程-修订版”（MDCUNE-R），并将这些模块提供给广泛院校的学生和教师。第一个模块通过虚拟神经回路的实验来探索神经生理学，以发现和分析产生节律性神经活动的机制。第二个模块介绍了生物信息学的主题，并在网络上广泛使用免费的生物信息学工具。第三个模块分析了鸟类鸣叫系统发展过程中的性别差异和激素效应。更广泛的影响：该项目正在修改现有材料，使模块完全数字化，并以持久的形式出版。它们可以通过网络上的开放存取媒体按需提供。这些模块是基于探究的实验室体验和演示。它们为整个实验课程提供了足够的材料，并允许任何机构的教师使用数字材料来创建高质量的教学体验，除了计算机之外不需要任何设备。MDCUNE-R还为每个模块提供广泛的教师发展机会，包括研讨会、文章、会议演讲、网络广播和基于网络的教程。该项目明确针对服务不足的机构的教职员工，包括历史上的黑人学院和大学、西班牙裔服务机构和部落学院。为了与CCLI循环模型保持一致，MDCUNE-R在执行过程中分四个步骤进行评估：1)与加州大学洛杉矶分校的学生一起测试和完善教学工具，2)从测试这些材料的其他机构的教师和学生那里获得反馈，3)在出版审查过程中接收同行评审反馈，4)在材料发布后接受使用这些材料的教师和学生的反馈。在每一个点上，反馈都被用来修改材料。

Psychology - Biological (71)Intellectual Merit: This project is creating three state-of-the-art laboratory research modules that comprise "Modular Digital Course in Undergraduate Neuroscience Education-Revised" (MDCUNE-R) and making these available to students and instructors at a wide range of institutions. The first module explores neurophysiology by experimenting with a virtual neural circuit to discover and analyze the mechanisms generating rhythmic neural activity. The second module introduces the subject of bioinformatics and makes extensive use of bioinformatics tools available free on the web. The third module analyzes sex differences and hormonal effects in the development of the bird song system. Broader Impacts: This project is modifying existing materials so that the modules are exclusively digital and publishing them in an enduring form. They are available on demand using open access media on the Web. These modules are inquiry-based laboratory experiences and demonstrations. They provide sufficient material for an entire laboratory course and allow instructors at any institution to employ the digital materials to create high-quality didactic experiences with no equipment required except a computer. MDCUNE-R is also providing extensive faculty development opportunities including workshops, articles, presentations at conferences, webcasts, and web-based tutorials with each module. The project is explicitly targeting faculty members at underserved institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges. In keeping with the CCLI cyclic model, MDCUNE-R is being evaluated at four steps in its execution by: 1) testing and refining the teaching tools with UCLA students, 2) obtaining feedback from faculty and students at other institutions testing these materials, 3) receiving peer review feedback during the publication review process, and 4) receiving feedback from faculty and students who are using the materials once they have been released for general dissemination. At each of these points the feedback is being used to revise the materials.