Developing an Economics Pedagogic Portal

这个项目正在创建一个“经济学教学门户”，以便为所有与本科生经济学教学相关的资源提供单一的基于网络的资源。这个宽阔的门户网站主要是为经济学教师设计的。它帮助教师学习有效的教学方法，在他们的学科之内和之外都可以操作。此外，它还提供工具，帮助教师转向更有效的教学模式，并评估这些创新方法在课堂上是如何发挥作用的。该门户网站旨在增加经济学家对学习科学的基本研究成果的了解，并说明这些研究成果如何应用于课堂教学，以改善学生的学习。在过去NSF对STEM学科教学创新的投资的基础上，该门户网站的设计旨在突出STEM领域的各种以研究为基础的教学创新，这些创新可以很容易地适应经济学教学，以改善学生的学习。这项开发工作是与卡尔顿学院科学教育资源中心(SERC)合作完成的，并建立在SERC“教学服务”框架的基础上，该框架使SERC合作伙伴(通常通过NSF资助的赠款)开发的教学模块可以通过教学数据库访问。SERC提供了经验丰富的支持人员和一系列服务，包括：内容托管和网站设计、用于开发/提交模块资源的通用模板、专家技术支持、研讨会空间和协调，以及开发综合“教学共享空间”网站的丰富经验，这些网站汇集了各种国家科学基金会资助的项目。

This project is creating an "Economics Pedagogic Portal" in order to provide a single web-based source for all resources related to undergraduate economics instruction. This broad Portal is being designed primarily for instructors in economics. It assists instructors in learning about effective teaching methods operant both within and beyond their discipline. In addition, it provides tools to facilitate instructors in switching to more effective teaching modalities and assessing how these innovative methods are working in their classrooms. The Portal seeks to increase teaching economists' knowledge of fundamental research findings from the learning sciences and illustrate how those findings apply to classroom teaching to improve student learning. Building on past NSF investments in pedagogical innovation in STEM disciplines, the Portal is being designed to highlight a variety of research-based teaching innovations in STEM fields that can be readily adapted to economics instruction to improve student learning. This development work is being done in collaboration with the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College and is building on the SERC "Pedagogic Services" framework that makes pedagogical modules developed by SERC partners (often through NSF-funded grants) accessible via a pedagogic database. SERC provides an experienced support staff and a collection of services including: content hosting and web site design, common templates for developing/submitting module resources, expert technical support, workshop space and coordination, and extensive experience developing comprehensive "teaching commons" web sites that bring together a variety of National Science Foundation-funded projects.