Transforming STEM Education at Small Rural Colleges: Incorporation of Remote Access NMR to Create an Authentic Laboratory Environment

该项目正在将核磁共振光谱仪引入远程访问仪器网络，为北方平原的五所小型农村大学提供服务。 远程访问协作实验和小型项目正在开发的学生团队谁不会物理满足对方。 学生就读于介绍，一般和有机化学，无论他们的位置，直接操作核磁共振分析自己的样品。 正在为参与该项目的教员建立一个在线教学社区，以促进进一步了解利用远程访问仪器网络加强学生学习的战略。智力价值包括开发新的课程材料和教学方法，通过提供真实的动手学习经验，而不是依赖模拟和出版材料，改变小型偏远大学教育学生的方式。 该提案的更广泛影响包括通过收购NMR改善所有五个校区的教学和研究基础设施。多层次的评价被用来衡量对学生的影响：（a）内容知识、实验室技能和参与，（B）在实验室和讲座课程之间转移和整合知识的能力，以及（c）专业技能，如批判性思维、沟通、协作和专业行为。 该项目的好处和挑战的传播提供了一个模型，为其他小型学院提供动手远程访问现代仪器。

This project is introducing an NMR spectrometer to a remote access instrumentation network serving five small, rural colleges in the northern plains. Remote access collaboration experiments and mini-projects are being developed for student teams who will not physically meet each other. Students enrolled in introductory, general and organic chemistry, regardless of their location, directly operate the NMR to analyze their own samples. An online teaching and learning community for the instructors involved in the project is being established to promote additional understanding of strategies to enhance student learning using remote access instrumentation networks. The intellectual merit includes development of new curricular materials and pedagogies to transform how small, remote colleges approach educating students, by providing authentic hands-on learning experiences, instead of relying on simulations and published materials. The broader impacts of the proposal include improved infrastructure for teaching and research at all five campuses through acquisition of the NMR. Multi-layered evaluation is being used to measure the impact on students' (a) content knowledge, laboratory skills and engagement, (b) ability to transfer and integrate knowledge between the laboratory and lecture courses, and (c) professional skills, such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration and professional behaviors. Dissemination of the project's benefits and challenges provides a model for other small colleges to provide hands-on remote access to modern instrumentation.