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

生命科学入门物理（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，每年加强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内容创建一个开源、同行评议和创新的结构环境。该门户网站最初包含来自多个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。该网站将作为档案和传播工具，包括为教师提供课程建设界面。教师将在创建创新和个性化课程方面得到支持，根据他们的需要混合和匹配多种资源，为传统教科书提供灵活和低成本的替代方案。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和相互作用元素的研究组成部分：IPLS内容，IPLS教学法，网站的组织结构，包括标记和分类所有元素，以适当选择以满足个人用户的需求，以及用户界面。三个重叠的研究小组将执行这项工作：以用户为中心的设计小组，教学内容设计小组，以及社区建设和专业发展小组。该项目的重点是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，(3)想要使用和改编现有IPLS材料的IPLS采用者。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-Portal基础设施一旦开发，可用于为其他STEM学科提供社区采购环境。

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.