Activities to Support Deep and Research Oriented Learning of Host Pathogen Interactions

马里兰大学帕克分校和罗克维尔蒙哥马利县社区学院正在共同努力，以吸引学生深入研究微生物学，重点是宿主病原体相互作用（HPI）。该项目正在扩大HPI的教学群体，包括来自社区学院的教师；开发新的活动，使学生参与HPI的研究性学习；编写全面的教材以支持这些新活动；评估新HPI教学活动的有效性。在马里兰大学帕克分校（UMCP），在HPI领域具有研究和教学专长的教师组成了一个教学社区，积极致力于本科科学教育改革，并产生了教学和评估工具（13个HPI概念和一个HPI概念清单）。该项目将研究过程和问题带入本科课堂，并让学生参与到原始数据分析或从模式生物或模拟样本中生成数据的真实体验中。这些活动的目的是在马里兰大学医学院和马里兰社区学院开设的微生物学入门课程中使用，但也可以作为其他机构的榜样。为期三天的计划研讨会开启了这一年的活动，旨在解决科学的过程，吸引多样化的学习方式和鼓励批判性思维。对学生学习情况的评估采用现有的HPI概念清单、已发表的“科学与技术在社会中的观点”调查中的问题以及学生在海报展示中的表现。该提案的智力价值在于，该项目的目的是让研究人员从他们的研究项目中提取最有趣的数据和问题，形成本科生真正的学习活动。参与该项目的教师进行的研究主题代表了微生物学的当前和紧迫问题，包括新出现的传染病，基因组学和疫苗开发，并提供了让学生参与讨论进行基础研究的社会效益的潜力。通过这些活动的学习，使本科生参与到研究科学的过程中，包括数据分析或数据生成，然后是数据解释和批判性思维。高年级研究生在活动的开发、实施和评估以及教学和沟通技巧方面与教师合作。这个项目更广泛的影响在于，它有可能成为一种发展、评估和传播以学生参与研究为载体的有效科学教学方法的模式。虽然项目活动集中于人力资源指数，但该模型具有广泛用于不同研究课题的潜力。该项目扩大了HPI UMCP社区，使社区学院的教师参与进来，以便将活动的范围扩大到广泛和多样化的受众。所产生的活动正在通过一个在线数字图书馆传播。

(Biological Sciences 61) The University of Maryland College Park and Montgomery County Community College, Rockville are working together in order to engage students in deep and research oriented learning of microbiology with an emphasis in host pathogen interactions (HPI). The project is expanding the HPI teaching community to include faculty from community colleges; developing new activities to engage students in research-oriented learning of HPI; creating comprehensive teaching materials in support of these new activities; and evaluating the effectiveness of the new HPI teaching activities. At the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP), faculty with research and teaching expertise in the area of HPI have formed a teaching community that is actively working on undergraduate science education reform and has generated teaching and assessment tools (13 HPI Concepts and a HPI Concept Inventory). The project brings the research process and questions to the undergraduate classroom and engages students in authentic experiences involving analysis of primary data or the generation of data from model organisms or mock samples. The activities are being designed for use in introductory microbiology courses offered at the UMCP and at Maryland community colleges, but can serve as a model for other institutions. A three day planning workshop kicks-off the year of activities designed to address the process of science, engage a diversity of learning styles and encourage critical thinking. Assessment of student learning utilizes an existing HPI concept inventory, questions from a published "Views on Science and Technology in Society" survey, and student performance in poster presentations.The intellectual merit of this proposal resides in the project's intent to engage research faculty in taking the most interesting data and problems from their research programs to form authentic learning activities for undergraduates. The topics of research conducted by faculty involved in this project represent current and pressing issues of microbiology including emerging infectious disease, genomics, and vaccine development and offer the potential to engage students in discussion of the societal benefits of conducting basic research. Learning via these activities engages undergraduate students in the process of research science by involving them in data analysis or data generation, followed by data interpretation, and critical thinking. Senior graduate students are collaborating with faculty in the development, implementation and assessment of activities and developing teaching and communication skills. The broader impacts of this project lie in its potential to act as a model for development, assessment and dissemination of an effective approach to teaching of science using student engagement in research as the vehicle. Although the project activities concentrate on HPI, the model has the potential to be used widely for different research topics. The project expands the HPI UMCP community to involve community college faculty in order to widen the reach of the activities to a broad and diverse audience. The activities generated are being disseminated through an online digital library.