Collaborative Research: Cyber Enabled Data and Modeling Driven Curriculum Modules for Hydrology Education

该项目正在使用基于数据和建模的模块创建新的教学策略和新的学习材料，使本科生能够更好地理解因果关系，形成和检验假设，并学习如何整合最新的工具，以更好地理解水文理论和过程。两所研究型大学、一所文理学院和钱德勒/吉尔伯特社区学院的合作者正在开发和测试教育模块，一个由来自美国各地的地球科学和工程学院组成的编辑委员会正在监督模块的开发和形成性评估。该项目正在创建一个有组织的实践社区，以开发、共享和发布数据和模型驱动的水文学教育模块，这些模块可通过科学教育研究中心(SERC)的网站获得。该项目正在利用社区协作课程开发的结构化过程，将核心用户社区聚集在一起，并设计一个系统，以满足广泛的水文学教育工作者的需求。它正在严格评估该技术对学生学习结果的有效性，方法是将传统的以讲座为基础的教学与旨在加强学生水文学习的数据和模型驱动的教学进行比较。该项目通过试行水文学网络学习模块的社区开发、评估和传播模式，正在产生广泛的影响。

This project is creating a new instructional strategy and new learning materials using data- and modeling-based modules that are enabling undergraduate students to better understand cause-effect relationships, form and test hypotheses, and learn how to integrate the latest tools for better understanding of hydrologic theory and processes. Collaborators at two research universities, a liberal arts college, and Chandler/Gilbert Community College are developing and testing the educational modules, and an editorial board comprising geosciences and engineering faculty from around the USA is supervising module development and formative evaluation. The project is creating an organized community of practice to develop, share, and publish data- and modeling-driven hydrology educational modules made available through the Science Education Research Center (SERC) website. This project is using a structured process of collaborative community curriculum development to bring together a core user community and design a system to meet the needs of a broad range of hydrology educators. It is rigorously assessing the effectiveness of the technology on students' learning outcomes by comparing traditional lecture-based instruction with data- and modeling-driven instruction designed to enhance hydrologic learning among students. This project is achieving a broad impact by piloting a model of community development, evaluation, and dissemination of hydrologic cyberlearning modules.