Collaborative Research: Partnerships to Strengthen and Diversify Broader Impacts Activities

合作研究：加强和多样化更广泛影响活动的伙伴关系

• 批准号: 1610693
• 负责人: Kevin Niemi
• 金额: $ 38.84万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2021-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1610693&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Partnerships; Strengthen; Diversify

As higher education institutions (HEIs) work to enhance Broader Impacts (BI) efforts, collaborations with informal science education institutions (ISEs) (e.g. science centers, aquaria, zoos) can help them strengthen their impact and reach broader audiences. This project builds on the successful Portal to the Public (PoP) framework, bringing together the expertise and resources of HEIs and ISEs around the shared mission of engaging public audiences in current STEM research. The project is designed to address several critical needs: (1) Public outreach BI activities are relatively uncommon compared to BI that is focused within the infrastructure of academia; (2) Because collaborations with ISEs are frequently tied to individual Principal Investigators (PIs), there is limited opportunity to build a body of knowledge around the practice of partnering for BI work; and (3) Collaborations are often transient, making it more difficult for universities to view BI on an institutional level in ways that leverage particular institutional assets or strategies and even link investigators from multiple projects.The specific areas of study are: a. Develop and test a structure for education/outreach BI experience design that addresses a public audience need and meets NSF's BI criterion: The project will create disseminatable tools around the activity design process (including evaluation of learning impacts). By convening cross-disciplinary teams, the project will ensure that experiences will reflect a wide range of expertise and will help meet the needs of multiple stakeholders. These established structures will lower the barrier to entry for PIs who want to do public outreach BI.b. Design, test, and study structures for long-term, mutually beneficial HEI-ISE partnerships: The project will build on the proven PoP model to create flexible, disseminatable tools around the development of institutional partnerships at three collaborating HEI-ISE site pairings that consider each institution's resources, constraints and strategic goals, including a cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary Broader Impacts Design (BID) Team structure. Sustained partnerships will support ongoing public engagement with current STEM research.c. Anchor the partnership at the HEI with a representative from an office of research support: Research support professionals will be a core part of the BID Team and will help support institutional strategies for aligning BI activities with broader goals around community engagement.d. Study the culture of HEI-ISE partnerships, building knowledge about how these institutions can form effective, sustained and mutually beneficial collaborations.Project partners include Pacific Science Center with the University of Washington, Bothell, WA; University of Wisconsin-Madison with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; and the Sciencenter with Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. In addition, the Center for Research in Lifelong Learning, Oregon State University will oversee the research aspects of the project. The project's primary benefit is the development of more effective mechanisms for HEIs and ISEs to collaborate, that will better enable them to engage their communities in experiences and conversations about current STEM research and innovation.This project is being funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments.

随着高等教育机构（HEIs）努力加强“更广泛影响”（BI）工作，与非正式科学教育机构（ise）（如科学中心、水族馆、动物园）的合作可以帮助它们加强影响力，并接触到更广泛的受众。该项目建立在成功的公众门户（PoP）框架的基础上，将高等教育学院和高等教育学院的专业知识和资源汇集在一起，共同致力于让公众参与当前的STEM研究。该项目旨在满足以下几个关键需求：(1)与专注于学术界基础设施的BI相比，公共外展BI活动相对较少；(2)由于与ise的合作经常与单个首席研究员（pi）联系在一起，因此围绕商业智能工作的合作实践建立知识体系的机会有限；(3)合作通常是短暂的，这使得大学很难在机构层面上利用特定的机构资产或策略来看待商业智能，甚至很难将来自多个项目的研究人员联系起来。具体的研究领域是：a.开发和测试教育/外展BI体验设计的结构，以满足公众的需求并满足NSF的BI标准：该项目将围绕活动设计过程（包括学习影响评估）创建可传播的工具。通过召集跨学科团队，该项目将确保经验将反映广泛的专业知识，并将有助于满足多个利益相关者的需求。这些已建立的结构将降低想要进行公共推广bi的pi的进入门槛。为长期互利的HEI-ISE合作伙伴关系设计、测试和研究结构：该项目将以经过验证的PoP模型为基础，在三个合作的HEI-ISE站点配对中创建灵活、可传播的工具，围绕机构伙伴关系的发展，考虑到每个机构的资源、限制和战略目标，包括跨机构和跨学科的更广泛影响设计（BID）团队结构。持续的伙伴关系将支持公众持续参与当前的STEM研究。与来自研究支持办公室的代表在HEI建立合作关系：研究支持专业人员将是BID团队的核心部分，并将帮助支持将商业智能活动与社区参与的更广泛目标相结合的机构战略。研究HEI-ISE合作伙伴关系的文化，了解这些机构如何形成有效、持续和互利的合作关系。项目合作伙伴包括太平洋科学中心与华盛顿大学，华盛顿州Bothell；威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校与威斯康星发现研究所；以及纽约州伊萨卡市康奈尔大学的科学中心。此外，俄勒冈州立大学终身学习研究中心将监督该项目的研究方面。该项目的主要好处是为高等教育机构和高等教育机构建立了更有效的合作机制，这将更好地使它们能够让社区参与到当前STEM研究和创新的经验和对话中来。该项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。