CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Enhancing STEM Education through Faculty Training in the Use of Cyberinfrastructure

在这个示范项目中，纽约城市学院 (CCNY) 与拉瓜迪亚社区学院 (LAGCC) 和霍斯托斯社区学院 (HCC) 合作，邀请社区学院教授参加教师发展研讨会，重点是将 CI 应用融入 STEM 入门课程。这项工作将展示的 CI 应用程序包括研究数据库、数学绘图和统计分析软件包以及化学和物理虚拟实验室实验的网络环境。最终受益者将是这些教师参与者的学生。 该培训将用于 LAGCC 和 HCC 的特定课程。该项目的目标是： 目标 1. 培养社区大学教师有效利用 CI 促进 STEM 学习的专业知识。目标 2. 加强和丰富学生？通过适当使用 CI 应用程序来学习科学和数学。目标 3. 扩大参与范围并增加对 CI 感兴趣的学生数量，以增加具备网络能力的劳动力。智力优势：该项目基于一个创造性和潜在变革性的概念：在允许学生使用互联网的过程中，他们的舒适区扩大到包括其他基于计算机的工具，这些工具将提高他们在 STEM 课程中的表现，并将他们基于 CI 的学习扩展到他们的劳动力经验。科学教育研究强调 CI 在使学生在学习中发挥积极作用、加深对基本科学概念的理解、提高批判性思维和培养解决问题的能力方面的好处。工作假设是在学生相当早的阶段将计算机应用程序融入到学习体验中？大学生涯将为他们的一生灌输基于计算机的实践。更广泛的影响：这项工作的传播将通过在整个学习过程中广泛使用 CI 来帮助改变较低水平的大学科学和数学课程。长期利益在于它对代表性不足的少数族裔学生在 STEM 入门课程中的表现产生影响，并使参与 CI 活动的学生群体多样化，作为其科学、数学或工程教育的一部分。 该项目很容易适应其他机构。在该项目中，活动将扩大规模，包括参与学院的额外课程，然后扩展到纽约市立大学 (CUNY) 的其他学院。还计划开展强有力的全国传播工作。

In this demonstration project, the City College of New York (CCNY), with the collaboration of LaGuardia Community College (LAGCC) and Hostos Community College (HCC), are engaging community college professors in faculty development workshops focused upon integrating CI applications into introductory STEM courses. The CI applications to be demonstrated in this work are research databases, software packages for graphing and statistical analysis in mathematics, and cyber environments for virtual laboratory experiments in chemistry and physics. The ultimate beneficiaries will be the students of these faculty participants. The training is to be used in specific courses at LAGCC and HCC. The project goals are: Goal 1. To develop community college faculty expertise in using CI effectively to promote STEM learning. Goal 2. To strengthen and enrich students? learning of science and mathematics with the appropriate use of CI-applications. Goal 3. To broaden participation and increase the number of students who are interested in CI in order to increase the cyber-ready workforce. Intellectual Merit: This project is based on a creative and potentially transformative concept: in allowing students to use the Internet, their comfort zone is expanded to include other computer-based tools that will improve their performance in STEM courses and extend their CI-based learning to their workforce experiences. Science education research underscores the benefits of CI in enabling students to take an active role in their learning, to deepen understanding of basic scientific concepts, to improve critical thinking and to build problem-solving skills. The working hypothesis is that integrating computer applications into the learning experience at a fairly early stage in students? college careers will inculcate computer-based practices for their lifetimes. Broader Impact: Dissemination of this work will help to transform lower-level college science and mathematics courses by incorporating the extensive use of CI throughout the learning process. The long-range benefit lies in its impact on underrepresented minority students' performance in introductory STEM courses and in diversifying the student population participating in CI activities as part of their science, math, or engineering education. The project is easily adaptable to other institutions. In this project, the activities will be scaled up to include additional courses at the participating colleges and then beyond to other colleges at the City University of New York (CUNY). A strong national dissemination effort is also planned.