Distance Learning through Self-Induced Learning Infrastructure (SELIN) Implemented by Arctic Anthropologists

北极人类学家通过自我诱导学习基础设施 (SELIN) 实施远程学习

• 批准号: 1623813
• 负责人: Patrick Plattet
• 金额: $ 29.96万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-01 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1623813&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Distance; Learning; through; Self; Induced

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award supports an exploratory project that investigates a developing field of anthropological research, human-animal communication, and tests a new e-learning platform for facilitating research training in the social sciences at the university level. The project pairs new distance learning software, Self-Induced Learning Infrastructure (SELIN), with materials designed to generate enthusiasm among college students for science research. Several programs in Alaska are currently using community based traditional knowledge as a launching point for science education. A good example is an existing lesson that uses dog sleds to teach physics to students from rural Alaskan communities. The Alaska based SELIN project team will add to these efforts by investigating a new area of social science research on human-animal interactions by investigating the relationships between dog mushers and their dogs. This relationship will be documented and the data used to create a course that teaches social science concepts and research methods to college students. SELIN, the new e-learning platform developed at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, lends itself to a variety of observational sciences including biology, veterinary medicine, sociology, linguistics, and child development. The availability of SELIN distance courses in English will make the platform accessible to a wider audience. The findings and data that come from this research (which will be made available, unedited, to other researchers) about the cultural and economic factors that drive dog mushing will be beneficial to veterinarians and those involved in resource management in the Arctic. The fact that the course is asynchronous means it can deliver science to communities where there is limited access to scientists and science education, among them rural and Indigenous Arctic communities for whom the subject matter is of particular interest. The findings from the research used to develop the course on human and animal communication offer insights for those involved in practical applications such as training and coordinating activities with animal species for search and rescue, law enforcement, and potentially service animals who assist the disabled.

EAGER（探索性研究的早期概念赠款）奖支持一个探索性项目，该项目调查人类学研究，人类与动物交流的发展领域，并测试一个新的电子学习平台，以促进大学社会科学的研究培训。 该项目将新的远程学习软件，自我诱导学习基础设施（SELIN）与旨在激发大学生科学研究热情的材料配对。 阿拉斯加的几个项目目前正在利用社区传统知识作为科学教育的起点。 一个很好的例子是一个现有的教训，使用狗拉雪橇教物理的学生从农村阿拉斯加社区。 总部位于阿拉斯加的SELIN项目团队将通过调查狗群和他们的狗之间的关系来调查人类与动物互动的社会科学研究的新领域，从而增加这些努力。 这种关系将被记录下来，数据用于创建一门课程，向大学生教授社会科学概念和研究方法。SELIN是瑞士纳沙泰尔大学开发的新的电子学习平台，适用于各种观察科学，包括生物学，兽医学，社会学，语言学和儿童发展。 SELIN的英语远程课程将使更多的受众能够利用该平台。 来自这项研究的发现和数据（将未经编辑地提供给其他研究人员）关于驱动狗的文化和经济因素将有利于兽医和参与北极资源管理的人。 该课程是异步的这一事实意味着它可以向科学家和科学教育有限的社区提供科学，其中包括对该主题特别感兴趣的农村和土著北极社区。 用于开发人类和动物交流课程的研究结果为参与实际应用的人员提供了见解，例如培训和协调与动物物种的搜索和救援，执法以及帮助残疾人的潜在服务动物。