Creating a Community of Practice

创建实践社区

• 批准号: 1043878
• 负责人: Marsha Matyas
• 金额: $ 52.15万
• 依托单位: American Physiological Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1043878&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Community; Practice

In this NSDL Usage Development Workshops project the American Physiological Society is transforming its existing resource repository to a dynamic platform (the "Archive") supporting a community of biology educators. Participating faculty are using new Archive tools to promote discussion, sharing, and recommendations of teaching resources and strategies focusing on both how to use resources and their effectiveness in the classroom, with an eye towards forming a reflective community of practice. To organize participants, the project is creating and supporting "like-minded" User Groups of faculty who teach similar courses at similar institutions. Furthermore, the project is providing online faculty development workshops - Archive Scholar Online Workshops - to teach expanded skills for finding and using high quality online materials and for annotating and sharing these resources with colleagues. The strong intellectual merit of this approach is enhanced by the project's evaluation of these tools and professional development activities for their impacts on faculty skills and behaviors using a quasi-experimental design. The project's broader impacts are felt through its designation of faculty who complete these professional development activities as Archive Scholars, thus identifying a cadre of faculty leaders. In addition, the project is devoting special attention to recruiting and supporting minority faculty and faculty from historically minority institutions for both the User Groups and Archive Scholars activities.

在这个NSDL使用发展研讨会项目中，美国生理学会正在将其现有的资源库转变为一个支持生物教育者社区的动态平台（“档案”）。参与的教师正在使用新的Archive工具来促进讨论、分享和教学资源和策略的建议，重点关注如何使用资源及其在课堂上的有效性，并着眼于形成一个反思的实践社区。为了组织参与者，该项目正在创建和支持“志同道合”的用户组，这些用户组由在类似机构教授类似课程的教师组成。此外，该项目还提供在线教师发展研讨会-档案学者在线研讨会-以教授查找和使用高质量在线材料以及注释和与同事分享这些资源的扩展技能。该项目使用准实验设计对这些工具和专业发展活动对教师技能和行为的影响进行了评估，从而增强了这种方法的强大智力价值。该项目通过指定完成这些专业发展活动的教师为档案学者，从而确定了一群教师领导干部，从而产生了更广泛的影响。此外，该项目特别注意为用户小组和档案学者活动从历史上属于少数民族的机构征聘和支持少数民族教员和教员。