Collaborative Research: Improving Student Learning in Hydrology & Water Resources Engineering by Enabling the Development, Sharing and Interoperability of Active Learning Resou

水文和水资源工程是本科工程专业学生的一个重要学科领域，他们从事与水管理和水基础设施相关的职业，如洪水预报和防洪。 透过发展一个网上平台（HydroLearn），以促进网上互动学习教学资源的合作和分享，这个项目将改变开发和采用学习资源的方式。利用现代网络技术，HydroLearn将提供国家和全球访问材料，使教师能够合作开发水资源领域的学习内容。HydroLearn将与国家水中心合作，并将使用他们的国家水模型为学生和教师提供创新的学习机会，解决具有直接社区影响的水问题。为了在全国范围内传播研究结果，研究人员将与水文科学促进大学联盟合作，它代表了100多所美国大学和组织。此外，在本项目期间，将为教师和早期职业科学家提供奖学金，以支持通过与水资源工程界的接触开发和测试学习资源。更具体地说，本项目有两个主要目标：（1）支持水文和水资源工程学院开发，分享和采用主动学习创新;（2）支持学生在水文和水资源工程关键领域的有效学习，重点是洪水分析、建模、预报和防护。利用互动的开发和传播过程，即将开发的（HydroLearn）将展示以下功能：（a）与社区水文数据和建模资源的互操作性和集成;（B）教师用户能够创建自己的内容模块的灵活性;（c）利用开放源码的方法，通过学习内容的众包建立材料所有权，以培养社区意识;以及（d）易于采用和定制教材。该项目将有助于缩小创新发展与实际采用之间的差距，方法是采用一种设计模式，在早期阶段和整个项目期间利用积极的传播方法，直接反馈采用者的需求，以促进未来的实用性和采用。

Hydrology and water resources engineering is an important subject area for undergraduate engineering students who pursue careers related to water management and water infrastructure, such as flood forecasting and flood protection. By developing a web-based platform (HydroLearn) to facilitate collaboration and sharing of online active-learning teaching resources, this project will change the way in which learning resources are developed and adopted. Using modern web technologies, HydroLearn will provide national and global access to materials that will enable faculty to collaboratively develop learning content in the area of water resources. HydroLearn will be a collaboration with the National Water Center and will use their National Water Model to provide students and faculty with innovative learning opportunities that address water problems with immediate community impacts. To disseminate the results at a national scale, investigators will collaborate with the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc., which represents more than 100 U.S. universities and organizations. Further, during this project, fellowships for faculty and early-career scientists will be provided to support the development and testing of the learning resources via engagement with the water resources engineering community.More specifically, this project has two main objectives: (1) to support hydrology and water resources engineering faculty to develop, share, and adopt active-learning innovations; and (2) to support effective student learning in key areas of hydrology and water resources engineering, focusing on flood analysis, modeling, forecasting and protection. Using an interactive process of development and propagation, the web-based platform (HydroLearn) that will be developed will showcase the following capabilities: (a) interoperability and integration with community hydrologic data and modeling resources; (b) flexibility in faculty users being able to create their own content modules; (c) creating material ownership via crowdsourcing of learning content using an open source approach to develop a sense of community; and (d) ease in teaching material adoption and customization. The project will contribute to closing the gap between development of innovations and actual adoption by following a design model that engages potential adopters at early stages and throughout the entire project using an active dissemination approach with direct feedback on adopters' needs to facilitate future utility and adoption.