Extending and enhancing Understanding Evolution for the undergraduate community

扩展和增强本科生群体对进化的理解

• 批准号: 0918741
• 负责人: Roy Caldwell
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0918741&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Extending; enhancing; Understanding; Evolution; undergraduate

Biological Sciences (61). This project, a collaboration between the University of California Museum of Paleontology, American Institute of Biological Sciences and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), is expanding the highly successful Understanding Evolution K-12 website (UE) with the aim of improving evolution education at the college level. UE's Undergraduate Library is a freely accessible online resource that targets college instructors of introductory biology to help them clarify evolutionary concepts in pedagogically sound ways, integrate evolution throughout their teaching, spend more class time on evolution-related concepts, and relate evolution to current research and issues that matter in students' everyday lives. Functionalities built into the site also encourage community building among these instructors. To support these goals, the Library is offering a wide variety of resources, including webinars, discussions, teaching materials, professional development tools, and much more. This comprehensive set of materials reflects the recognition that some instructors are prepared to make only small modifications to their pedagogy, and others will embrace sweeping ones. By facilitating small improvements and providing a community-based support system, the site aims to move instructors towards more fundamental transformations of their evolution instruction. An evaluation component is addressing the extent to which the project is meeting its goals, informing the design of online community-building tools for teacher professional development, and informing other efforts to encourage the integration of evolution throughout biology instruction (e.g., NESCent's Evolution Across the Curriculum working group). The project's freely-accessible, online environment provides a vehicle for reaching a diverse group of students and instructors - from rural and inner city community colleges, research universities, and private institutions - by removing geographic and economic barriers to participation.

生物科学（61）.该项目是加州大学古生物学博物馆、美国生物科学研究所和国家进化综合中心（NESCent）之间的合作，正在扩大非常成功的理解进化K-12网站（UE），目的是改善大学水平的进化教育。UE的本科生图书馆是一个免费访问的在线资源，目标是介绍生物学的大学教师，以帮助他们以教学合理的方式澄清进化概念，将进化融入教学过程，将更多的课堂时间花在进化相关的概念上，并将进化与当前的研究和学生日常生活中的问题联系起来。该网站的功能也鼓励这些教师之间的社区建设。为了支持这些目标，图书馆提供各种各样的资源，包括网络研讨会，讨论，教学材料，专业发展工具等等。这套全面的材料反映了这样一种认识，即一些教师只准备对他们的教学法进行小的修改，而其他人则会接受全面的修改。通过促进小的改进和提供一个基于社区的支持系统，该网站旨在推动教师对他们的进化教学进行更根本的转变。一个评估部分是解决项目在多大程度上实现其目标，为教师专业发展提供在线社区建设工具的设计，并为鼓励在整个生物学教学中融入进化论的其他努力提供信息（例如，NESCent的Evolution Across the Curriculum工作组）。该项目的自由访问，在线环境提供了一个工具，以达到不同群体的学生和教师-从农村和内城社区学院，研究型大学，和私人机构-通过消除地理和经济障碍的参与。