EPS-WO Gateway for Education, Training, Broader Impacts and Outreach

国家科学基金会资助的所有赠款不仅有可能促进科学知识，而且还有助于实现与社会相关的成果。与社会相关的科学成果被称为更广泛的影响。教育、培训、合作、扩大参与和提高对科学在日常生活质量中的作用的认识是促进社会科学素养的更广泛的影响。国家科学基金会非常重视科学的传播及其造福社会的潜力。虽然更广泛的影响非常重要，但大规模实现这些影响需要应对规划和实施活动方面的挑战，这些活动包括：1)寻找和共享资源(资金、基础设施和人员)；2)查找和整理多样、广泛和以各种方式呈现的信息；3)解决创建网站、视频和整合社交媒体、调查工具和分析工具等应用程序所缺乏的技术专长和基础设施；4)传播信息并与分布在各地的大型群体互动；5)实现招聘计划的目标，以扩大参与并在不熟悉的社区建立合作；以及6)衡量成功并促进成功的项目。这次讲习班的主要目标是通过探索为EPSCoR辖区创建一个教育、培训、更广泛的影响和外联的综合网关来解决这些问题，该网关将为研究人员、教育工作者、学生、项目经理和普通公众提供基础设施，以获取、创建和共享有关更广泛的影响活动和资源的信息。实现科学研究更广泛影响(BI)的战略包括利用网络基础设施增强知识传播能力，启动有效的司法和区域合作以促进科学研究，扩大对科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的参与，提高所有公民的科学素养，以及传播STEM研究和教育的重要性。该研讨会的主要目标是评估促进商业智能的现有资源的最新水平，并探索为EPSCoR司法管辖区创建一个教育、培训、更广泛的影响和外联的综合门户，为研究人员、教育工作者、学生、项目经理和普通公众提供基础设施，以获取、创建和共享有关更广泛的影响活动和资源的信息。与会者将在此次活动中实现以下目标：1)确定EPSCoR社区的商业智能和外展需求；2)确定、引入和评估来自促进非正式科学教育中心和扩大参与的研究所等成熟团体的商业智能资源和工具；3)确定当前商业智能平台中存在哪些功能缺口，这些平台是EPSCoR社区所需的；4)创建一套商业智能“用户故事”(即用例)，用于记录必要的功能；5)讨论如何将EPSCoR商业智能网络的发展整合到更广泛社区的中心或生态系统中；以及6)确定资金机会，以开发、试点测试、扩大和维持该系统。该项目的成果将以可扩展和变革性的方式提升更广泛的影响活动及其相互交织的研究活动的可见性和重要性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

All NSF funded grants have the potential to not only advance scientific knowledge but also contribute to the achievement of socially relevant outcomes. Socially relevant scientific outcomes are referred to as Broader Impacts. Education, training, collaboration, broadening participation and raising awareness of the role that science plays in the quality of everyday life are broader impacts that promote science literacy in society. The National Science Foundation places great importance on the communication of science and its potential to benefit society. While broader impacts are of great importance, achieving them at scale requires addressing challenges in planning and implementing activities that include: 1) finding and sharing resources (funding, infrastructure and personnel); 2) locating and collating information that is diverse, widespread and presented in a variety of ways; 3) addressing the lack of technical expertise and infrastructure for creating websites, videos, and integrating applications such as social media, survey tools and analytic tools; 4) disseminating information and interacting with large, distributed groups; 5) meeting recruitment initiative goals to broaden participation and building collaborations in unfamiliar communities; and 6) measuring success and promoting successful projects. The primary objective of this workshop is to address these issues by exploring the creation of an integrated Gateway for Education, Training, Broader Impacts and Outreach for EPSCoR jurisdictions that would provide infrastructure for researchers, educators, students, project managers, and the general public to access, create, and share information about broader impact activities and resources. Strategies for realizing the Broader Impacts (BI) of scientific research include using cyberinfrastructure to empower knowledge dissemination, activating effective jurisdictional and regional collaborations that advance scientific research, broadening participation in science, technology and engineering and mathematics (STEM), expanding the scientific literacy of all citizens, and disseminating the importance of STEM research and education. The primary objective of this workshop is to assess the state of the art in existing resources to promote BI, and explore creating an integrated Gateway for Education, Training, Broader Impacts and Outreach for EPSCoR jurisdictions that would provide infrastructure for researchers, educators, students, project managers, and the general public to access, create, and share information about broader impact activities and resources. Participants will achieve the following during this event: 1) identify BI and outreach needs of the EPSCoR community; 2) identify, introduce, and evaluate BI resources and tools from well-established groups such as the Center for the Advancement of Informal Science Education and the Institute for Broadening Participation; 3) identify what functionality gaps exist in the current BI platforms that are required by the EPSCoR community; 4) create a set of BI “user stories” (i.e. use cases) that would be used to document the requisite functionality; 5) discuss how the development of a EPSCoR BI network could be integrated into a Hub or Ecosystem for the broader community; and 6) identify funding opportunities to develop, pilot test, scale and sustain the system. The outcomes of this project will elevate the visibility and importance of broader impact activities, and their intertwined research activities, in a scalable and transformative way.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.