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

水文学和水资源工程是本科工程专业学生的一个重要学科领域，他们追求与水管理和水利基础设施相关的职业，如洪水预报和防洪。通过开发一个以网络为基础的平台(水学习)，促进在线主动学习教学资源的协作和共享，该项目将改变开发和采用学习资源的方式。通过使用现代网络技术，海德鲁将在全国和全球范围内提供获取资料的途径，使教师能够协作开发水资源领域的学习内容。该项目将与国家水中心合作，并将利用他们的国家水模型为学生和教职员工提供创新的学习机会，解决水问题，并对社区产生直接影响。为了在全国范围内传播这一结果，调查人员将与代表美国100多所大学和组织的水文科学促进大学联盟合作。此外，在这个项目中，将为教师和职业生涯早期的科学家提供奖学金，通过与水资源工程界的接触来支持学习资源的开发和测试。更具体地说，这个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)支持学生在水文学和水资源工程的关键领域有效学习，重点是洪水分析、建模、预报和防洪。利用互动的开发和传播过程，将开发的基于网络的平台将展示以下能力：(A)与社区水文数据和模型资源的互操作性和整合；(B)教师用户能够创建自己的内容模块的灵活性；(C)通过使用开放源码方法众包学习内容来创建材料所有权，以培养社区意识；以及(D)便于采用和定制教材。该项目将有助于缩小创新开发和实际采用之间的差距，遵循一种设计模式，在早期阶段和整个项目中使用积极的传播方法，并对采用者的需求进行直接反馈，以促进未来的实用和采用。

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.