I-Corps: Integrated Electronic Curriculum for Imaginative, Reasoning, and Inquiry-based Science Learning (eIRIS)

I-Corps：用于想象力、推理和探究性科学学习的综合电子课程 (eIRIS)

• 批准号: 1514545
• 负责人: Sue Carter
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1514545&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Integrated; Electronic; Curriculum; Imaginative

While many schools are now adopting interactive electronic books (eBooks) to reduce cost and increase the interactiveness of textbooks, these textbooks are largely designed to teach science terminology and facts that meet the requirements of standardized testing. These books are largely decoupled from the interdisciplinary data-oriented analysis prevalent in modern scientific careers. In addition, eBooks and the internet have perpetuated the replacement of hands-on labs with simulated labs in order to further cut costs,which undermines the teaching of scientific discovery, error, and ethics. This limited approach to science learning does not take advantage of new technology and big data resources that make low cost science equipment and real scientific data readily available to everyone. The technology developed by this I-Corps team proposes to connect these two science education tools together into one affordable package.The proposed eIRIS technology includes interdisciplinary electronic books focused on solving real scientific challenges using math skills, technology tools, and big data available on the internet or taken by the students themselves, accompanying digital teacher aids, including web-based training classes and lecture slides, and lab supplies bundled by lab activity, including digital scientific sensors used by scientists, all integrated into one affordable package. eIRIS will provide everything that the millions of homeschool students and K-12 public school communities with affordable hands-on interdisciplinary science education currently lack. The impact of this technology will be the emergence of new generation of young scientists that are more prepared with the interdisciplinary, analytical, and technical skills to succeed in college-level science classes, increasing diversity and reducing the cost of higher education through reduced time-to-degree.

虽然许多学校现在采用互动电子书（eBook）来降低成本并增加教科书的互动性，但这些教科书主要是为了教授符合标准化测试要求的科学术语和事实。这些书在很大程度上与现代科学职业中流行的跨学科数据导向分析脱钩。此外，电子书和互联网使模拟实验室取代动手实验室的做法永久化，以进一步降低成本，这破坏了科学发现，错误和道德的教学。这种有限的科学学习方法没有利用新技术和大数据资源，使低成本的科学设备和真实的科学数据随时可供每个人使用。由I-Corps团队开发的技术建议将这两种科学教育工具连接到一个负担得起的软件包中。拟议的eIRIS技术包括跨学科电子书籍，重点是利用互联网上或学生自己获取的数学技能，技术工具和大数据解决真实的科学挑战，伴随着数字教具，包括基于网络的培训课程和讲座幻灯片，和实验室活动捆绑的实验室用品，包括科学家使用的数字科学传感器，所有这些都集成到一个负担得起的包中。 eIRIS将为数百万家庭学校学生和K-12公立学校社区提供目前缺乏的负担得起的跨学科科学教育。这项技术的影响将是新一代年轻科学家的出现，他们更有跨学科，分析和技术技能，能够在大学水平的科学课程中取得成功，增加多样性并通过减少时间来降低高等教育的成本。