Collaborative Research: Community Sourcing Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences

合作研究：社区采购生命科学物理学入门

• 批准号: 1624007
• 负责人: Nancy Donaldson
• 金额: $ 6.74万
• 依托单位: Rockhurst University
• 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: 2016-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624007&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Community; Sourcing; Introductory

The Introductory Physics for Life Science (IPLS) Portal will enhance the education of hundreds of thousands of life science students each year by providing engaging and effective IPLS instructional materials and helping IPLS instructors use these materials. This collaborative effort of the American Association of Physics Teachers and eight colleges and universities, including a community college and a Hispanic-serving institution, will create an open-source, peer-reviewed, and innovatively structured environment for IPLS content. Initially containing materials from multiple NSF-funded research and development projects, the Portal will become a development platform for IPLS curricula. The site will serve as both an archive and a dissemination tool, including a course-building interface for faculty. Instructors will be supported in creating innovative and individualized courses, mixing and matching from multiple sources tuned to their needs, offering a flexible and low-cost alternative to traditional textbooks. Many of the objectives and features of the project are innovative. Hence, the project also includes research components of four critical and interacting elements: IPLS content, IPLS pedagogy, the organizational structure of the site, including tagging and taxonomy of all elements for appropriate selection to meet the needs of individual users, and the user interface. Three overlapping research teams will carry out this work: the User-Centered Design team, the Instructional Content Design team, and the Community-Building and Professional-Development team. This project focuses on engaging and expanding three communities: (1) physics and biology education researchers, (2) IPLS contributors, and (3) IPLS adopters wanting to use and adapt existing IPLS materials. Merging and expanding the efforts of these communities will occur through a combination of workshops, online support communities, and research to advance the understanding of faculty professional development for IPLS education. The IPLS-Portal infrastructure, once developed, could be used to provide a community-sourcing environment for other STEM disciplines.

生命科学物理入门 (IPLS) 门户每年将通过提供引人入胜且有效的 IPLS 教学材料并帮助 IPLS 教师使用这些材料来加强对数十万生命科学学生的教育。美国物理教师协会和八所学院和大学（包括一所社区学院和一所西班牙裔服务机构）的共同努力，将为 IPLS 内容创建一个开源、经过同行评审和创新结构的环境。该门户最初包含来自多个 NSF 资助的研究和开发项目的材料，将成为 IPLS 课程的开发平台。该网站将充当档案和传播工具，包括为教师提供的课程建设界面。将支持教师创建创新和个性化的课程，根据他们的需求混合和匹配多个来源，为传统教科书提供灵活且低成本的替代方案。 该项目的许多目标和特点都是创新的。 因此，该项目还包括四个关键且相互作用的元素的研究组成部分：IPLS 内容、IPLS 教学法、网站的组织结构（包括所有元素的标签和分类，以便进行适当选择以满足个人用户的需求）以及用户界面。三个重叠的研究团队将开展这项工作：以用户为中心的设计团队、教学内容设计团队以及社区建设和专业发展团队。该项目侧重于吸引和扩大三个社区：(1) 物理和生物教育研究人员，(2) IPLS 贡献者，以及 (3) 希望使用和改编现有 IPLS 材料的 IPLS 采用者。 将通过研讨会、在线支持社区和研究的结合来合并和扩大这些社区的努力，以增进对 IPLS 教育教师专业发展的理解。 IPLS-Portal 基础设施一旦开发出来，可用于为其他 STEM 学科提供社区采购环境。