Educational Resources In Neuroscience (ERIN)

神经科学学会正在建立ERIN，即神经科学教育资源，这是一个基于网络的门户网站，将使教授神经科学的教职员工能够列出、审查和评级他们在教学中使用的材料。它将帮助教师分享在特定本科课程中有效的资源信息，并创建一个实践社区，教师可以在其中交换教学大纲、实验室练习和关于创新教学方法的想法。在张贴材料之前，将对材料的科学有效性和教育价值进行同行审查，列表和审查将在网上免费提供。INTELLECTUAL MERIT过去半个世纪神经科学知识的爆炸性增长使Erin关于快速发展的资源的信息对教职员工和学生都至关重要。随着新发现的步伐，不断需要更新教学内容，并超越教科书中的内容进行教学。此外，“千禧一代”的学生经常会遇到在线练习、图像、视频和其他资源，这些资源可能很难被教员找到和评估。ERIN将提供对这类资源的知情访问。它将以人们熟悉的多种方式进行搜索，并将成为教职员工讨论与他们的教学相关的问题的“Web2.0”社区。Erin回应了生物界最近的呼吁，即“专业协会应该为教师提供职业发展机会，以提高他们的专业知识”，这样教师就可以超越现有的课本，寻找课程资源，并参与关于教学和学习的对等指导(参见由美国科学促进会维护的“愿景与变化”网站)。BROAD IMPACTNews关于Erin的信息将由神经科学协会广泛传播，并将链接到目前的Ben门户网站，以便它可以服务于尽可能广泛的生物学家受众。该项目由生物科学局新兴前沿部门的TUBE计划共同资助，作为远景与变革努力的一部分

The Society for Neuroscience is establishing ERIN, Educational Resources in Neuroscience, a Web-based portal that will enable faculty who teach neuroscience to list, review, and rate materials they use in their teaching. It will help faculty share information about resources that are effective in specific undergraduate courses, as well as create a community of practice in which faculty can exchange syllabi, lab exercises, and ideas about innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Materials will be peer reviewed for scientific validity and educational merit before posting, and the listings and reviews will be freely available on the web.INTELLECTUAL MERITThe explosive growth of knowledge in neuroscience in the last half-century makes ERIN's information about rapidly evolving resources essential for both faculty and students. The pace of new discoveries creates a constant need to update the content of courses and to teach beyond the material in textbooks. In addition, "millenial" students routinely expect to encounter online exercises, images, videos, and other resources, which can be difficult for faculty to find and evaluate. ERIN will provide informed access to such resources. It will be searchable in multiple, familiar ways and will serve as a "Web 2.0" community for faculty to discuss issues related to their teaching. ERIN answers recent calls from the biology community that "professional societies should provide professional development opportunities for faculty to enhance their expertise" so that faculty can look beyond existing textbooks for course resources and engage in peer-to-peer mentoring about teaching and learning (see the "Vision and Change" website maintained by the American Association for the Advancement of Science).BROAD IMPACTNews about Erin will be widely disseminated by the Society for Neuroscience and will be linked to the current BEN portal so that it can serve the widest possible audience of biologists. This project is being co-funded by the TUBE Program of the Emerging Frontiers Division of the Directorate for the Biological Sciences as part of th Vision and Change efforts