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

CI-TEAM 示范项目：通过使用网络基础设施的教师培训加强 STEM 教育

• 批准号: 1135394
• 负责人: Issa Salame
• 金额: $ 24.97万
• 依托单位: CUNY City College
• 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: 2011-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1135394&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Demonstration; Project; Enhancing

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.

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Hostos社区学院(HCC)合作，正在邀请社区大学教授参加教师发展讲习班，重点是将CI应用程序纳入STEM入门课程。将在这项工作中演示的CI应用是研究数据库、用于绘制图表和数学统计分析的软件包，以及用于化学和物理虚拟实验室实验的网络环境。最终的受益者将是这些教职员工的学生。培训将在LAGCC和CC的特定课程中使用。该项目的目标是：目标1。发展社区学院教师在有效利用CI促进STEM学习方面的专业知识。目标2.加强和丰富学生？学习科学和数学，适当使用CI-应用程序。目标3.扩大参与范围，增加对传播与信息感兴趣的学生人数，以增加随时准备上网的劳动力。智力优势：该项目基于一个具有创造性和潜在变革性的概念：在允许学生使用互联网的同时，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工作经验。科学教育研究强调了信息传播的好处，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技能。工作假设是，在学生相当早期的阶段就将计算机应用程序整合到学习经验中？大学生涯将在他们的一生中灌输基于计算机的实践。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传播与信息技术来改变较低水平的大学科学和数学课程。长期的好处在于，它影响了未被充分代表的少数族裔学生在STEM入门课程中的表现，并使参加传播与信息活动的学生群体多样化，这是他们科学、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，活动的规模将扩大到包括参与的学院的额外课程，然后扩展到纽约市立大学(CUNY)的其他学院。还计划在全国范围内开展强有力的传播工作。