OCEAN - OIL (Online Clearinghouse for Education And Networking - Oil Interdisciplinary Learning

在线教育与网络交流中心-石油跨学科学习(Ocean-OIL)项目正在为STEM教职员工建立一个在线机制和资源，以多种形式创建、分享、评估、改进、调整和/或利用各种资源，在“可授课的时刻”告知他们关于深水地平线灾难的指导，并加强学生对海上石油生产及其相关能源、环境、社会和政治复杂性的好处、风险和潜在影响的更广泛考虑。海洋石油网站正在被无缝地并入地球百科全书(www.eoEarth.org)，这是一个由专家学者和教育工作者撰写的关于地球、其自然环境及其与社会互动的免费、同行评议、可搜索的内容集合。海洋石油项目有三个目标：1)促进开发和共享材料的活动；2)促进这些材料的传播和采用；3)促进对人类、他们的需求和地球之间关系的深入思考。作为美国国家科学与环境委员会、波士顿大学和路易斯安那州立大学的合作项目，该项目正在将海洋石油打造成一个综合性的跨学科网站，其内容为不同水平的专业知识提供多个切入点，特别是STEM的教职员工和本科生，其教学资源侧重于广泛的研究社区产生的地球科学、海洋和气候知识方面的“大创意”。共享的资源包括与进入墨西哥湾的深水地平线漏油事件有关的高质量本科生教学材料，解决与漏油事件直接相关的内容，以及为漏油事件提供更大背景的潜在问题。一个广泛的专家社区正在致力于开发该网站。海洋石油为本科教育工作者提供了提高其效用的在线工具，并包括一种教育工作者和学生评估机制，以便就资源的效用向项目提供反馈。该项目正在研究在波士顿大学和路易斯安那州立大学2010年秋季教授的课程中使用海洋石油材料的有效性。这项评估是通过使用率数据分析、教师反馈以及在课程中使用海洋石油材料的教师雇用的普通学生评估数据来研究网站的质量、使用和影响。这个由地球科学委员会和生物委员会共同资助的本科生教育部门(教育和人力资源局)的项目。

The Online Clearinghouse for Education And Networking - Oil Interdisciplinary Learning (OCEAN-OIL) project is establishing an online mechanism and resource for STEM faculty members to create, share, evaluate, improve, adapt and/or utilize a variety of resources, in many formats, to inform their instruction about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in a "teachable moment," as well as to enhance student learning about broader considerations related to the benefits, risks, and potential impacts of offshore oil production and its associated energy, environmental, social and political complexities. The OCEAN-OIL website is being seamlessly integrated into the Encyclopedia of Earth (www.eoearth.org), which is a free, peer-reviewed, searchable collection of content about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society, written by expert scholars and educators. The OCEAN-OIL project has three goals: 1) to spur activity to develop and share materials, 2) to facilitate dissemination and adoption of these materials, and 3) to promote deep thinking about the relationship between humans, their needs, and the Earth. As a collaboration between the National Council for Science and the Environment, Boston University, and Louisiana State University, the project is creating OCEAN-OIL as a comprehensive, interdisciplinary website with content that has multiple entry points for varying levels of expertise, particularly STEM faculty and undergraduate students, and whose instructional resources focus on 'big ideas' in Earth science, ocean, and climate literacy that have been generated by broad research communities. Resources being shared include high quality undergraduate pedagogic material related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, addressing content directly related to the spill and the underlying issues that provide the larger context to the spill. A wide community of experts is engaged in developing the website. OCEAN-OIL provides online tools to increase its utility to undergraduate educators, and includes a mechanism for educator and student evaluations to provide feedback to the project on the resource's utility. The project is studying the effectiveness of using OCEAN-OIL materials in courses taught in Fall 2010 at Boston University and Louisiana State University. The evaluation is studying the quality, use, and impact of the website through usage data analytics, feedback from faculty, and data from common student assessments employed by faculty who use OCEAN-OIL materials in their courses.This project in the Division of Undergraduate Education (Education and Human Resources Directorate) is being co-funded by the Geosciences Directorate and the Biology Directorate.