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: 1624549
• 负责人: Mark Reeves
• 金额: $ 21.64万
• 依托单位: George Washington 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 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624549&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.

生命科学的入门物理学（IPLS）门户网站每年将通过提供参与和有效的IPL教学材料并帮助IPL教师使用这些材料来增强数十万生命科学专业的学生的教育。美国物理教师协会以及包括社区学院和西班牙裔服务机构在内的八所大学的合作努力将为IPLS内容创建开源，经过同行评审和创新结构化的环境。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。该站点将既是档案又是传播工具，包括教师的课程界面。将支持教练创建创新和个性化的课程，从多个来源调整到他们的需求的来源，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征都是创新的。 因此，该项目还包括四个关键元素和交互元素的研究组件：IPLS内容，IPLS教育学，网站的组织结构，包括标记和所有元素的分类，以满足各个用户的需求以及用户界面。三个重叠的研究团队将进行这项工作：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。该项目着重于参与和扩展三个社区：（1）物理和生物学教育研究人员，（2）IPLS贡献者以及（3）想要使用和调整现有IPLS材料的IPLS采用者。 这些社区的融合和扩展将通过研讨会，在线支持社区和研究来提高对IPLS教育的教师专业发展的理解。 IPLS-Portal基础设施曾经开发，可用于为其他STEM学科提供社区源环境。