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

水文与水资源工程是工科本科学生从事与水管理和水利基础设施相关的职业，如洪水预报和防洪的重要学科领域。通过开发一个基于网络的平台（HydroLearn）来促进在线主动学习教学资源的协作和共享，该项目将改变学习资源开发和采用的方式。利用现代网络技术，HydroLearn将提供国家和全球范围的材料访问，使教师能够协作开发水资源领域的学习内容。HydroLearn将与国家水中心合作，并将利用他们的国家水模型为学生和教师提供创新的学习机会，解决对社区产生直接影响的水问题。为了在全国范围内传播研究结果，研究人员将与代表100多所美国大学和组织的水文科学促进大学联盟合作。此外，在该项目期间，将为教师和早期职业科学家提供奖学金，通过与水资源工程社区的合作，支持学习资源的开发和测试。更具体地说，该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)支持学生在水文水资源工程重点领域的有效学习，重点是洪水分析、建模、预测和保护。将开发的基于网络的平台（HydroLearn）采用交互式开发和传播过程，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)教员用户能够灵活地创建自己的内容模块；(c)采用开源方法，通过学习内容的众包来建立物质所有权，以培养社区意识；(d)便于教材的采用和定制。该项目将通过遵循一种设计模式，在早期阶段和整个项目中采用积极的传播方法，对采用者的需求进行直接反馈，以促进未来的效用和采用，从而缩小创新开发与实际采用之间的差距。

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.