Collaborative Research: Community Sourcing of Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences

生命科学入门物理学（IPLS）门户网站将通过提供引人入胜和有效的IPLS教学材料并帮助IPLS教师使用这些材料，每年提高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合作努力，将为IPLS内容创造一个开源，同行评审和创新结构的环境。该门户网站最初包含来自多个国家科学基金资助的研究和开发项目的材料，将成为国际PLS课程的开发平台。该网站将作为档案和传播工具，包括教师的课程建设界面。教师将得到支持，以创建创新和个性化的课程，混合和匹配从多个来源调整到他们的需要，提供一个灵活和低成本的替代传统教科书。 该项目的许多目标和特点是创新的。 因此，该项目还包括四个关键和相互作用的要素的研究组成部分：IPLS内容，IPLS教学法，网站的组织结构，包括所有要素的标记和分类，以适当选择，以满足个人用户的需要，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，社区建设和物质发展团队。该项目的重点是参与和扩大三个社区：（1）物理和生物教育研究人员，（2）IPLS贡献者，（3）IPLS采用者希望使用和适应现有的IPLS材料。 合并和扩大这些社区的努力将通过研讨会，在线支持社区和研究的结合来实现，以促进对IPLS教育教师专业发展的理解。IPLS门户基础设施一旦开发出来，就可以用来为其他STEM学科提供一个社区采购环境。

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.