CCLI: The Geoscience Student Data Network: A Cyberinfrastructure-Based Approach For Collaborative Classroom-, Field-, and Laboratory-Based Undergraduate Education

该项目正在开发一个具有社交网络功能的软件应用程序，称为地球科学学生数据网络（GSDNet），该网络是与国家地热数据系统合作创建的。GSDNet使学生能够在一个单一的网络环境中工作，在那里他们协作和集体贡献、访问、操作和分析数据。GSDNet还通过整合数据层和学生之间的协作，促进了与数据管理和地球过程建模相关的课堂教学。该工具正在纽约城市学院（City College of New York）和博伊西州立大学（Boise State University）同时提供的课程中进行测试。纽约城市学院是一所面向少数族裔的大型城市院校。该项目正在开发三门课程，并支持与地热能应用研究主题有关的实验室和实地活动。该项目使两个机构的学生接触地热系统的实地研究，随后要求两个学生群体在实地和课堂上利用全球地热系统网的网络基础设施交流思想、信息和数据。该项目正在测试这种方法的有效性，并评估通过使用GSDNet是否提高了学生的写作和沟通技巧。此外，该项目正在确定来自不同社会经济和文化背景的学生如何在该领域以及通过相关的网络基础设施进行互动。实地调查导致个人的高级论文或独立研究项目，从而导致学生在地方和国家会议上的研究报告。该项目采用了有助于改进课程和GSDNet的反复形成性评估，以及评估课程和相关网络工具对学生学习和表现的短期和长期影响的总结性评估。PI和高级人员在会议上和通过同行评议的出版物介绍该计划的结果。此外，正在制作一系列网络研讨会模块，以提高对更大的地球科学界使用GSDNet的认识并提供培训。总之，该项目的重点是开发和实施网络工具和课程，使来自不同背景的学生更好地为成功的地球科学职业和研究生学习做好准备。

This project is developing a software application with social networking capabilities known as the Geoscience Student Data Network (GSDNet) that is being created in partnership with the National Geothermal Data System. GSDNet is enabling students to work in a single cyberenvironment where they are collaboratively and collectively contributing, accessing, manipulating, and analyzing data. GSDNet is also facilitating classroom instruction related to data management and modeling of earth processes via the integration of data layers and student-peer collaborations. The tool is being tested within a curriculum offered in parallel at City College of New York, a large minority-serving urban institution, and Boise State University. The project is developing three courses and supporting lab and field activities related to the applied research theme of geothermal energy. The project is exposing students from both institutions to field studies of geothermal systems and subsequently is requiring the two student populations to exchange ideas, information and data both in the field and in the classroom using the GDSNet cyberinfrastructure. The project is testing the efficacy of this approach, and also is assessing whether student communication skills involving writing and communication are improved via the use of GSDNet. Moreover, the project is determining how students from different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds interact in the field and via the associated cyberinfrastructure. The field investigations are leading to individual senior thesis or independent study projects that are resulting in student research presentations at local and national conferences. The project is employing an iterative formative evaluation that is helping to improve the courses and the GSDNet in addition to a summative evaluation that is assessing the short- and long-term impacts of the curriculum and associated cybertools on student learning and performance. The PI and Senior Personnel are presenting the results of the program at conferences and through peer-reviewed publications. In addition, a series of webinar modules are being produced to raise awareness and provide training on the use of the GSDNet to the larger geosciences community. Summarily, the project focuses on developing and implementing cybertools and curricula that are better preparing students from diverse backgrounds for successful careers and graduate studies in the geosciences.