Cyber-Enhanced Student Investigations in Biology and Ornithology

生物学和鸟类学方面的网络增强学生调查

• 批准号: 0919686
• 负责人: Nancy Trautmann
• 金额: $ 24.99万
• 依托单位: Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010
• 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 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0919686&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cyber; Enhanced; Student; Investigations; Biology

Biological Sciences (61). Growing efforts to reform undergraduate science education call for engagement of students in scientific processes, including designing investigations and analyzing data. This project is helping to meet this need by creating, piloting, and promoting use of a suite of web-based curriculum resources designed to engage undergraduates in research. These curriculum resources allow undergraduates in biology, ecology, environmental science and ornithology courses to learn how to access and use the wealth of scientific data accumulating in online databases, and guide faculty through all steps of facilitating student research using data from several rich and ever-growing online collections of data about birds and other organisms. Initially designed investigations focus on two themes central to undergraduate biology: population ecology and animal communication and behavior. In the investigations, students pose questions and conduct investigations using two types of web-accessible databases. Investigations focusing on ecology use bird population data assembled through citizen science projects such as eBird (http://ebird.org), which contains over 21 million records of bird observations submitted by more than 31,000 individuals throughout the western hemisphere. To address questions related to animal communication and behavior, students analyze recordings from Macaulay Library, the world's largest online archive of animal sounds and videos (http://macaulaylibrary.org). Students are guided through all steps of research - from devising relevant questions, to designing feasible investigations, to presenting and critiquing the results. As a consequence, undergraduate research becomes feasible in all types of academic settings, and students build skills that can enrich their future studies and careers. Intellectual Merit: This project advances STEM learning through development of a model for provision of authentic research experiences to undergraduates in a diversity of settings, including distance-learning courses, institutions with no lab facilities, and large classes. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is uniquely qualified to carry out this work because of the close working relationship it has established among database developers, information scientists, and end users, including research scientists, educators, and students. Broader Impacts: This project leverages the impacts of numerous NSF-sponsored citizen science projects, digital libraries, and visualization tools by making their products accessible to undergraduate students from a full range of academic institutions - community colleges, liberal arts colleges, research universities, and distance education. Collaborations are being established among a faculty network poised to implement innovative web-based research experiences in their science teaching, leading to increased success in achieving the science process goals delineated in undergraduate science education reform initiatives.

生物科学(61)。越来越多的本科科学教育改革努力要求学生参与科学过程，包括设计调查和分析数据。该项目通过创建、试行和促进使用一套旨在让本科生参与研究的基于网络的课程资源来帮助满足这一需求。这些课程资源允许生物学、生态学、环境科学和鸟类学课程的本科生学习如何访问和使用在线数据库中积累的丰富科学数据，并指导教师完成所有步骤，使用来自几个丰富且不断增长的关于鸟类和其他生物的在线数据收集的数据来促进学生的研究。最初设计的调查聚焦于本科生生物学的两个核心主题：种群生态学和动物交流与行为。在调查中，学生提出问题并使用两种可通过网络访问的数据库进行调查。注重生态的调查使用通过eBird(http://ebird.org)，)等公民科学项目收集的鸟类种群数据，该项目包含西半球31,000多人提交的2100多万份鸟类观察记录。为了解决与动物交流和行为有关的问题，学生们分析了来自麦考利图书馆的录音，该图书馆是世界上最大的动物声音和视频在线档案(http://macaulaylibrary.org).指导学生完成研究的所有步骤--从设计相关问题，到设计可行的调查，再到提出和批评结果。因此，本科生的研究在所有类型的学术环境中都变得可行，学生们获得的技能可以丰富他们未来的学习和职业生涯。智力价值：该项目通过开发一种模式，在包括远程学习课程、没有实验室设施的机构和大班在内的各种环境中向本科生提供真实的研究经验，来促进STEM学习。康奈尔鸟类学实验室是唯一有资格开展这项工作的实验室，因为它在数据库开发人员、信息科学家和最终用户(包括研究科学家、教育工作者和学生)之间建立了密切的工作关系。更广泛的影响：该项目利用NSF赞助的众多公民科学项目、数字图书馆和可视化工具的影响，使来自各种学术机构-社区学院、文科学院、研究型大学和远程教育-的本科生可以访问它们的产品。在准备在其科学教学中实施创新的基于网络的研究经验的教员网络之间正在建立合作，从而在实现本科生科学教育改革倡议中描绘的科学过程目标方面取得更大的成功。