I-Corps L: Flipping the STEM Classroom Made Easy and Sustainable - Resources for Faculty

I-Corps L：翻转 STEM 课堂变得简单且可持续 - 教师资源

• 批准号: 1547691
• 负责人: Mark Brown
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 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: 2015-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1547691&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Flipping; STEM; Classroom; Made

Through the NSF Innovation Corps for Learning Program, (I-Corps L), this project will develop ways to achieve more widespread use of a teaching method proven to increase the effectiveness of undergraduate faculty. In the past decade, a body of higher education research has emphasized the need to address the diverse learning needs of our students. Yet, the majority of college level science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses throughout the nation still rely upon a traditional lecture format that reaches only a subset of learning styles. As a result, many students struggle to master the material in STEM courses which often leads to lower academic performance and/or attrition. A classroom model called, "flipping the classroom," reduces the amount of traditional lecturing and augments it with more engaging applications of the course material. This model has been widely documented for its ability to better engage broad audiences of STEM students with diverse learning needs, thereby responding to a national need for improving STEM education. The work supported through this project encourages critical thinking through real-world applications of course content. This approach has positively impacted learning trends for students in disciplines and courses ranging from Cell & Molecular Biology and Ecology to Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering. Using the I-Corps for Learning program, approaches will be developed to enable this more easily implemented method of developing flipped classrooms to benefit more STEM faculty and students.Broadly applied, the flipped classroom model has a proven ability to achieve higher performance, understanding, applicability, and retention among STEM students in the U.S. However, most STEM faculty have exhibited a resistance to flipping the structure of their STEM courses due to a lack of time for restructuring their classes and/or a lack of knowledge related to the model and its benefits. To overcome the obstacles and faculty resistance associated with flipping the STEM classroom, this I-Corps for Learning Team seeks to sustainably and systematically promote the adoption of an educational innovation that includes guides and classroom materials to facilitate the process of implementing the flipped classroom model across a wide range of STEM subject areas. These materials provide a step-by-step procedure and teaching tools for simplifying the process and, thereby, reducing resistance to implementing the flipped style of teaching. The results will help to improve undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education throughout the country.

通过NSF创新团队学习计划（I-Corps L），该项目将开发方法，以实现更广泛地使用经证明可提高本科教师效率的教学方法。在过去的十年中，高等教育研究机构强调有必要解决我们学生多样化的学习需求。然而，全国大多数大学水平的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）课程仍然依赖于传统的讲座形式，仅涉及学习风格的一个子集。因此，许多学生很难掌握STEM课程的材料，这往往导致学习成绩下降和/或减员。一种叫做“翻转课堂”的课堂模式减少了传统的讲课量，并通过更吸引人的课程材料应用来增加它。这种模式已被广泛记录，因为它能够更好地吸引具有不同学习需求的STEM学生的广泛受众，从而满足国家对改善STEM教育的需求。通过这个项目支持的工作鼓励批判性思维，通过课程内容的现实世界的应用。 这种方法对学生在从细胞分子生物学和生态学到生物技术和化学工程等学科和课程的学习趋势产生了积极影响。 使用I-Corps for Learning计划，将开发方法，使这种更容易实施的开发翻转课堂的方法能够使更多的STEM教师和学生受益。广泛应用，翻转课堂模式已被证明能够在美国STEM学生中实现更高的表现，理解，适用性和保留率。大多数STEM教师都表现出对翻转STEM课程结构的抵制，原因是缺乏重组课程的时间和/或缺乏与该模式及其益处相关的知识。为了克服与翻转STEM课堂相关的障碍和教师阻力，这个I-Corps学习团队寻求可持续和系统地促进采用教育创新，包括指南和课堂材料，以促进在广泛的STEM学科领域实施翻转课堂模式的过程。这些材料提供了一个循序渐进的程序和教学工具，以简化过程，从而减少实施翻转式教学的阻力。研究结果将有助于改善全国的本科科学，技术，工程和数学教育。