Creating a Learning Community for Solutions to Climate Change

气候变化教育为了响应气候变化教育计划，国家科学与环境理事会的环境系主任和主任理事会（CEDD）正在创建一个全国性的网络学习社区，称为CAMEL（气候，适应和缓解电子学习）。CAMEL邀请科学、政策和决策、教育和评估方面的专家参与制作一个虚拟的课程资源工具箱，用于教授气候变化的原因、后果和解决方案。CAMEL着眼于未来劳动力和公民的需求，因为关于气候变化的讨论已经从这种变化是否正在发生转变为应对持续影响的挑战。该项目承认气候变化的跨学科性质，并向教育工作者提出挑战，要求根据现有最佳研究和适当的教学方法制定课程内容，使学生能够处理复杂的问题。具体目标是：协助美国各地高等教育机构的教师创建、生成、测试和共享资源，不仅教学生如何诊断气候变化问题，而且通过提出多学科/跨学科的气候变化处理方法来确定和实施解决方案;- 确保编制和分享的材料以现有最佳科学信息为基础，并遵循最适当的教育做法;建立一个由研究人员、教育工作者和学生组成的社区，通过面对面和在线网络，从事气候变化原因、后果和解决方案的教学;发展网络基础设施，支持和促进材料和社区的创建;评估利用网络媒体成功建设社区的决定因素。为了发展和传播创新的本科教育，解决这些目标，CAMEL的实施战略有五个相互关联的组成部分：内容开发，教师发展，社区建设，网络基础设施和程序评估。

Climate Change Education In response to the Climate Change Education program the National Council for Science and the Environment's Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD) is creating a nationwide cyber-enabled learning community called CAMEL (Climate, Adaptation, and Mitigation e-Learning). CAMEL engages experts in science, policy and decision-making, education, and assessment in the production of a virtual toolbox of curricular resources designed for teaching climate changes causes, consequences, and solutions. CAMEL looks to the needs of the future workforce and citizenry in general as discourse on climate change has shifted from whether such change is occurring to the challenges of dealing with the ongoing impacts. This project acknowledges the interdisciplinary nature of climate change and challenges educators to curricular content based on the best available research and on the appropriate pedagogical methods for enabling students to tackle complex problems. Specific objectives are: - To assist faculty at institutions of higher education across the United States as they create, generate, test, and share resources for teaching students not only how to diagnose climate change problems, but also to identify and effect solutions by presenting a multi/interdisciplinary treatment of climate change; - To ensure that materials developed and shared are founded on the best available scientific information and follow the most appropriate educational practices; - To build a community of researchers, educators, and students engaged in teaching about climate change causes, consequences and solutions through face-to-face and online networking; - To develop cyberinfrastructure that will support and promote the creation of materials and community; and - To evaluate the determinants of successful community building using cybermedia. In order to develop and disseminate innovative undergraduate education that addresses these objectives, CAMEL's implementation strategy has five interrelated components: content development, faculty development, community-building, cyberinfrastructure, and program evaluation.