RCN-UBE Incubator: Growing a Physiology Education Community of Practice

该孵化器项目正在建立生理学教育者实践社区(PECOP)，该社区主要以本科教育为中心，但包括多个教学级别(K-12，研究生/专业)，包括国际和新手教育工作者。PECOP还促进了为代表不足的学生提供服务的机构的教职员工的大力参与。美国生理学会(APS)已经开发了支持PECOP的关键组成部分，包括一个国家科学数字图书馆，其中包括建立和支持教学社区的工具(APS教学资源档案，www.apsArchive.org)，促进在线社区参与的在线教师发展，以及对一年两次的教学与学习会议的新支持，该会议将为来自所有类型机构的教师提供研讨会和会议。会议作为建立PECOP结构和招募参与者的论坛，鼓励教育工作者不断互动、共享资源和合作。它还为生理学教育工作者提供了一个机会，学习如何使用教学和学习(SOTL)方法来改进他们的教学，并为新的生理学家提供教学专业技能培训。这个RCN-UBE项目正在使用档案社区工具和教学会议来组织和启动PECOP，这是一个为生理学教学提供资源、培训、指导和社区福利的支持社区。在组织阶段，该项目正在招聘思想领袖，他们将指导会议和在线讨论关键主题，如课程开发、以学生为中心的学习、评估、有效的本科生研究经验和SOTL方法。最后，该项目正在通过地区和国家生理学教育者会议为促进参与PECOP提供支持。这一倡议的智力价值在于创建了一个积极的实践社区(COP)，将增加生理学的整体影响和有效性，生理学是世界上最常见的本科课程主题之一。PECOP将鼓励和支持最佳教学实践、循证教学，并通过培训、资源共享以及现场和在线环境中的指导，为新的教育工作者做好准备，与不同的学生合作。PECOP的广泛影响在于它吸引了来自不同机构的生理学家，支持新的和有经验的教育工作者之间的合作，分享教育研究和最佳实践，以及它提供的跨教育水平(本科生-研究生-专业)的重要交流论坛。该项目由生物科学局和本科教育司教育和人力资源局联合资助，以支持应对《本科教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》中提出的挑战的努力http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/.

This incubator project is establishing the Physiology Educators Community of Practice (PECOP) which centers primarily on undergraduate education, but encompasses multiple teaching levels (K-12, grad/professional), including international and novice educators. PECOP also promotes strong participation by faculty at institutions serving underrepresented students. The American Physiological Society (APS) has developed key components to support the PECOP, including a National Science Digital Library with tools to build and support teaching and learning communities (APS Archive of Teaching Resources, www.apsarchive.org), online faculty development to promote online community involvement, and new support for a biannual conference on teaching and learning which will offer workshops and sessions for faculty from all types of institutions. The conference serves as a forum to build the PECOP structure and recruit participants, encouraging educators to interact, share resources, and collaborate on an ongoing basis. It also provides an opportunity for physiology educators to learn how to use scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) methodologies to improve their teaching and offers teaching professional skills training for new physiologists. This RCN-UBE project is using Archive community tools and the teaching conference to organize and launch PECOP, a support community that provides resources, training, mentoring, and community benefits for the teaching of physiology. In the organizational stages, the project is recruiting Thought Leaders who will guide discussions at the conference and online on key topics such as curriculum development, student-centered learning, assessment, effective undergraduate research experiences, and SOTL methods. Finally, the project is providing support to promote participation in PECOP via regional and national meetings of physiology educators.The Intellectual Merit of this initiative is the creation of an active community of practice (COP) that will increase the overall impact and effectiveness of physiology, which is among the most common undergraduate course topics worldwide. PECOP will encourage and support best teaching practices, evidence-based teaching and preparation of new educators to work with diverse students through training, resource sharing, and mentoring in live and online settings.Broader Impacts of PECOP lie in its engagement of physiologists from diverse institutions, the support for collaborations among new and experienced educators to share educational research and best practices, and the important communication forum it provides across educational levels (undergrad-grad-professional). This project is funded jointly by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate of Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education in support of efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education: A Call to Action http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/.