TeachEngineering: Expanding and Sustaining Curriculum Access for K-12 Teachers

TeachEngineering：扩大和维持 K-12 教师的课程获取机会

• 批准号: 1544495
• 负责人: Jacquelyn Sullivan
• 金额: $ 90.06万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 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: 2015-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1544495&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TeachEngineering; Expanding; Sustaining; Curriculum; Access

The TeachEngineering (TE) digital library, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has attained a reputation in the K-12 engineering education community as a high-quality teacher resource of free, classroom-tested, standards-based lessons. As the disseminator of original K-12 engineering curricula from 46 engineering grantees, the collection is accessed by 2.3M users annually, realizing 50% annual growth. The TeachEngineering lessons and activities and the interactive community forums around them support teachers in meeting new engineering-based standards in their classrooms. Attracting more, and more diverse, students to engineering for future occupations and satisfying lives cultivates ambitions in the young while setting the stage for improving and sustaining the nation's economic future. The proposed strategic improvements and user-centered research ensure TeachEngineering's ongoing relevance and sustainability.The goals of this three-year initiative include making the user experience interactive and community based, expanding collection size and usage, keeping curricula aligned with evolving K-12 STEM standards, modernizing the backend architecture for sustainability and responsiveness, and assessing classroom impact. Activities and approaches include significant expansion of direct involvement of the K-12 teacher community through the design and/or implementation of social, community based and crowdsourced features. The rich new source of information generated by this user involvement will serve to significantly improve the user experience and help index the collection for better and automated search, recommender and standards alignment facilities. Methods to be employed include partnering with the NAE's LinkEngineering community, creation of a far more integrated metamodel of the collection, implementing a model-view-controller framework, and conducting quantitative and qualitative studies on how teachers use TE in the classroom.

位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学的TeachEngineering（TE）数字图书馆在K-12工程教育界享有盛誉，是免费的、经过课堂测试的、基于标准的课程的高质量教师资源。 作为来自46个工程资助方的原创K-12工程课程的传播者，该集合每年有230万用户访问，实现了50%的年增长率。TeachEngineering课程和活动以及围绕它们的互动社区论坛支持教师在课堂上满足新的工程标准。 吸引更多、更多样化的学生从事未来职业和满足生活的工程，培养年轻人的雄心壮志，同时为改善和维持国家的经济未来奠定基础。拟议的战略改进和以用户为中心的研究确保了TeachEngineering的持续相关性和可持续性。这一为期三年的计划的目标包括使用户体验互动和社区为基础，扩大收集规模和使用，保持课程与不断发展的K-12 STEM标准保持一致，现代化后端架构以实现可持续性和响应能力，以及评估课堂影响。活动和方法包括通过设计和/或实施社会、社区和众包功能，显著扩大K-12教师社区的直接参与。 这种用户参与产生的丰富的新信息源将有助于显著改善用户体验，并有助于为收集的信息编制索引，以实现更好的自动搜索、推荐和标准调整设施。 采用的方法包括与NAE的LinkEngineering社区合作，创建一个更加集成的集合元模型，实施模型-视图-控制器框架，并对教师如何在课堂上使用TE进行定量和定性研究。