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（CCNY）与拉瓜迪亚社区学院（LAGCC）和霍格尔社区学院（HCC）合作，让社区学院教授参加教师发展研讨会，重点是将CI应用程序整合到STEM入门课程中。在这项工作中要证明的CI应用是研究数据库，软件包的图形和数学统计分析，以及虚拟实验室的化学和物理实验的网络环境。最终的受益者将是这些教师参与者的学生。 培训将用于LAGCC和HCC的具体课程。该项目的目标是：目标1。发展社区学院教师的专业知识，有效地使用CI来促进STEM学习。目标2.加强和丰富学生？学习科学和数学与适当使用CI应用程序。目标3.扩大参与，增加对CI感兴趣的学生人数，以增加网络就绪的劳动力。智力优势：该项目基于一个创造性和潜在的变革性概念：在允许学生使用互联网的过程中，他们的舒适区被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工作经验。科学教育研究强调了CI的好处，使学生能够在学习中发挥积极作用，加深对基本科学概念的理解，提高批判性思维和建立解决问题的能力。工作的假设是，整合计算机应用到学习经验，在相当早期阶段的学生？大学生涯将灌输计算机为基础的做法为他们的一生。更广泛的影响：这项工作的传播将有助于通过在整个学习过程中广泛使用竞争情报来改造较低水平的大学科学和数学课程。长期的好处在于它对代表性不足的少数民族学生在STEM入门课程中的表现产生了影响，并使参与CI活动的学生群体多样化，作为他们科学，数学或工程教育的一部分。 该项目很容易适应其他机构。在这个项目中，将扩大活动范围，在参与的学院开设更多课程，然后扩大到纽约的其他学院。还计划在全国大力宣传。

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.