Creating a replicable transformation path for change: A pilot study on overcoming the barriers to individualized teaching and learning

打造可复制的变革转型路径：克服个性化教学障碍的试点研究

• 批准号: 1044430
• 负责人: Lizabeth Thompson
• 金额: $ 24.95万
• 依托单位: California Polytechnic State University Foundation
• 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: 2011-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1044430&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; replicable; transformation; path; change

This project is assessing the effectiveness of a networked learning community as a mechanism to initiate lasting change in the teaching and learning of college-level STEM content. The institutional partners are a four-year institution and two regional community colleges, both of which are Hispanic-serving institutions. The PIs are assessing the method of action research within the structure of a regional network as a means for sustained improvement in STEM teaching and learning. Institutional partners are building their capacity for action research through participation in annual and on-going workshops. The workshops are enabling faculty participants to conceive, plan, implement and assess their own course-level experiments in teaching and learning. The network is serving as a learning community where participants can collectively reflect on their results and learn from one another. Open education resources are being explored to determine their value to enhance and self-direct undergraduate learning. The PIs are also assessing the role of meaning to motivate and engage all participants (faculty, students, and community partners). This pilot study is advancing our understanding of how to successfully use emergent open educational resources to facilitate the design of individualized learning experiences for students with diverse prior-college life experiences. The project also focuses on revealing the structures and processes needed to enable meaningful and sustained faculty-initiated change in STEM education.

该项目正在评估网络学习社区作为启动大学STEM内容教与学的持久变革的机制的有效性。机构合作伙伴是一个四年制机构和两个地区社区学院，这两个机构都是为拉美裔服务的机构。私营部门正在评估区域网络结构内的行动研究方法，以此作为持续改进STEM教与学的一种手段。机构伙伴正在通过参加年度和持续举办的讲习班来建设其行动研究能力。这些研讨会使教师参与者能够构思、计划、实施和评估他们自己在教与学中的课程级实验。该网络是一个学习社区，参与者可以集体反思他们的结果，并相互学习。正在探索开放教育资源，以确定其价值，以加强和自我指导本科生学习。PI还在评估意义在激励和参与所有参与者(教职员工、学生和社区合作伙伴)方面的作用。这项先导性研究加深了我们对如何成功地利用紧急开放教育资源，为具有不同大学前生活经历的学生设计个性化学习体验的理解。该项目还侧重于揭示在STEM教育中实现有意义和持续的教职员工发起的变革所需的结构和过程。