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

虽然现在许多学校采用互动式电子书（eBooks）来降低成本和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事业中流行的跨学科数据导向分析分离。此外，为了进一步削减成本，电子书和互联网使模拟实验室取代了实际操作的实验室，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，而这些新技术和大数据资源使每个人都可以轻松获得低成本的科学设备和真实的科学数据。由I-Corps团队开发的技术建议将这两种科学教育工具连接在一起，形成一个负担得起的软件包。拟议的eIRIS技术包括跨学科的电子书，专注于利用数学技能、技术工具和互联网上或学生自己获取的大数据来解决真正的科学挑战，伴随着数字教师辅助工具，包括基于网络的培训课程和讲座幻灯片，以及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软件包中。eIRIS将为数百万在家上学的学生和K-12公立学校社区提供目前所缺乏的可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，他们在跨学科、分析和技术技能方面做得更好，可以在大学水平的科学课程中取得成功，增加多样性，并通过缩短获得学位的时间来降低高等教育的成本。

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.