RCN-UBE: HITS: High-throughput Discovery Science & Inquiry-based Case Studies for Today's Students

这个RCN-UBE网络项目旨在增加本科生发展定量技能和参与高通量发现研究的机会。该网络解决了教育本科生，研究生，研究人员和教师的需要，在并行和高通量（HT）的方法，在研究和工业中变得越来越普遍。致力于增加学生接触新技术和数据集的教育工作者将与研究人员合作，使用高通量研究和基于案例的学习专家开发的一系列资源开发教育案例研究。使用HT技术的研究人员将在研讨会上向学术界和工业界的专家学习。这项合作将使教师能够在本科教育中开发和实施案例HT研究，并促进应用定量技能，包括描述性统计和使用在线“大数据”数据库和工具。该网络将广泛传播这些案例研究，并与其他RCN-UBE项目合作，整合全国和世界各地STEM课程和课程中创建的资源。网络团队将利用一系列研讨会会议将STEM教育界聚集在一起，重点关注来自不同机构的教师和使用或学习HT方法的研究人员。研讨会将促进思想交流，提高对HT技术在科学研究和STEM教育界的重要性的认识。该研究和教育网络主要包括本科院校，早期职业教师以及国内和国际研究人员，以创建有影响力的教育材料，以展示HT方法的变革力量并教授基本的定量技能。由此产生的基于探究的案例研究将使学生参与真实的研究，并更好地培养未来的科学家和工程师在现代分子生物学中的工作。本科生将分析新的数据集，并发展定量技能，而网络参与者将通过提供HT技术研讨会和案例研究的发展与网络培训的教师和博士后团队“案例研究员”加强他们的研究和教学。该项目为本科生、研究生、博士后研究员、研究人员和教育工作者等不同群体提供培训机会。HITS RCN-UBE的产品将在网络上广泛传播和提供，以鼓励教师采用，调整，评估，改进和创建案例研究，揭开高通量方法和数据集的神秘面纱。该项目由生物科学局（BIO），生物基础设施司和教育和人力资源局（EHR）共同资助，本科生教育司作为他们努力解决的一部分，在本科生物学教育的愿景和变化所带来的挑战：行动呼吁（http：//visionandchange.org/finalreport/）。该项目也由BIO董事会的分子和细胞生物科学部（MCB）共同资助。

This RCN-UBE network project seeks to increase opportunities for undergraduate students to develop quantitative skills and participate in high-throughput discovery research. This network addresses the need to educate undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and faculty in massively-parallel and high-throughput (HT) approaches that are becoming increasingly common in research and industry. Educators committed to increasing exposure of students to new techniques and datasets will work with researchers to develop educational case studies using a series of resources developed by experts in high-throughput research and case-based learning. Researchers using HT techniques will learn at the workshops from experts in academia and industry. This collaboration will empower faculty to develop and implement case HT studies in undergraduate education and promote applied quantitative skills including descriptive statistics and use of online 'big data' databases and tools. The network will disseminate these case studies broadly and work with other RCN-UBE programs to integrate the resources created in STEM courses and curricula across the country and world.The network team will use a series of workshop meetings to bring together the STEM education community, with a focus on faculty from diverse institutions and researchers using or learning HT approaches. The workshops will foster the exchange of ideas and increase awareness of the importance of HT techniques in scientific research and the STEM education community. This research and educational network includes primarily undergraduate institutions, early career teaching faculty, and national and international researchers to create impactful educational materials to demonstrate the transformative power of HT approaches and teach underlying quantitative skills. The resulting inquiry-based case studies will engage students in authentic research and better train future scientists and engineers for jobs in modern molecular biology. Undergraduate students will analyze novel data sets and develop quantitative skills, while network participants will enhance their research and teaching through provided HT technical workshops and the development of case studies with teams of network-trained faculty and postdoctoral "Case Fellows". This project provides training opportunities for a diverse group of undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, researchers, and educators. The products of the HITS RCN-UBE will be widely disseminated and available on the web to encourage faculty to adopt, adapt, assess, improve and create case studies that demystify high-throughput approaches and data sets.This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO), Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/). This project is also co-funded by the Division Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) in the BIO directorate.