Pilot Study: Creating a Special Collection of NSF-Funded Learning Resources to Support Core Ideas in High School Biology

本项目将开发、实施和研究一个特殊的数字集合，以补充高中生物学核心思想的教学。该系列将侧重于支撑美国目前使用的大多数课程的概念。该集合还将作为一个综合来源的模型，专门用于传播有关国家科学基金会支持的学习资源的信息，以教师和学习者为目标受众。该项目的重点是高中生物学，因为：1）教学和学习的当代研究基础要求所有学生深入参与真实的科学实践。在许多学校，教师正在积极寻找在线资源来满足这一需求。2)生物学几乎普及了。因此，教师正在寻求在线补充资源，以区分他们的教学，以满足学生的不同学习需求。3)通过现有的合作伙伴关系，这一特殊的集合可以被整合到数字高中生物课程，并可以研究其对教师和学习者的影响。各州和学区越来越多地要求教师在机构范围内使用开放教育资源，这是出于控制成本的愿望，需要更多个性化的学习体验，以及需要调整课程以满足新的数学和科学标准的要求。NSF支持的教育材料的全面在线来源将通过为教师，学习者，家长和公众提供开放获取高质量，基于研究的STEM材料来满足这一国家需求。直接的更广泛的影响将是丹佛公立学校教师和800名学生获得300个高质量的生物资源，其中许多人来自非主流背景。它将为公众访问NSF资助的其他STEM领域的教育材料提供一个可扩展的模型，并可以作为未来开发特殊收藏的基础。长期影响将是教育工作者、学习者和公众更容易获得高质量的教育收藏。工作将沿着沿着两条轨道进行：在开发轨道上，将使用现有的基础设施工具来构建资源集合，以进行集合开发、管理和维护。在研究轨道上，将进行研究，以解决扩大收集和改善多种受众的使用。发展轨道将：（1）制定政策和资源选择标准;（2）确定NSF支持的材料，并评估其是否适合纳入;（3）填充集合并描述资源;（4）配置和操作现有的技术基础设施，用于集合开发和传播;以及（5）将集合传播到多个开放教育知识库并直接传播给教师和学生。研究轨道将产生设计指南和专有技术，用于将此模型集合扩展到能够为多个受众和社区服务的更大的在线资源。项目活动将：（1）确定有助于为更广泛的受众提供存储库价值的因素，包括在利用数字馆藏支持数据密集型研究时需要考虑的因素;（2）生成关于STEM教师和学生用户行为的新知识，并检查馆藏开发政策，资源选择标准，描述和使用之间的关系。

This project will develop, implement, and research a special digital collection to supplement the teaching of core ideas in high school biology. The collection will focus on concepts that underpin the majority of curricula currently in use in the United States. The collection will also serve as a model for a comprehensive source dedicated to disseminating information about NSF-supported learning resources for targeted audiences of teachers and learners. The project focus is on high school biology because: 1) The contemporary research base on teaching and learning calls for all students to be deeply engaged in authentic science practices. In many schools teachers are actively seeking online resources to meet this need. 2) Biology has near universal enrollment by students. Consequently, teachers are seeking online supplemental resources to differentiate their instruction to meet the diverse learning needs of students. 3) Through existing partnerships, this special collection can be integrated into a digital high school biology curriculum and its impact on teachers and learners can be studied. States and school districts increasingly are asking teachers to use open education resources on an institutional scale, driven by the desire to control costs, the need for more personalized learning experiences, and the need to adapt curricula to meet the demands of new math and science standards. A comprehensive online source of NSF-supported educational materials will address this national need by providing teachers, learners, parents, and the public with open access to high-quality, research-based STEM materials. The immediate broader impact will be access to 300 high-quality biology resources by Denver Public School teachers and 800 students, many of whom are from non-dominant backgrounds. It will provide a scalable model for public access to NSF-funded educational materials in other STEM domains and can serve as a foundation for future development of special collections. Longer term impacts will be more accessible, high-quality educational collections available to educators, learners, and the general public. Work will proceed along two tracks: in the development track, the collection of resources will be built using existing infrastructure tools for collection development, curation, and maintenance. In the research track, studies will be conducted to address scaling the collection and improving use for multiple audiences. The development track will: (1) Develop policies and resource selection criteria; (2) Identify NSF-supported materials and evaluate their appropriateness for inclusion; (3) Populate the collection and describe resources; (4) Configure and operate existing technical infrastructure for collection development and dissemination; and (5) Disseminate the collection to multiple open education repositories and directly to teachers and students. The research track will generate design guidelines and know-how for scaling this model collection to larger online sources capable of serving multiple audiences and communities. Project activities will: (1) Identify factors that contribute to repository value for broader audiences, including factors to be considered when instrumenting digital collections to support data-intensive research; and (2) Generate new knowledge on user behavior of STEM teachers and students, and examine the relationship between collection development policies, resource selection criteria, descriptions, and usage.