RCN-UBE: Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges

RCN-UBE：社区学院的定量生物学

• 批准号: 1919613
• 负责人: Sarah Prescott
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1919613&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Quantitative; Biology; Community

Life sciences students must be well equipped with the mathematical and quantitative skills to work in the increasingly data-rich careers in biotechnology, health care, and agriculture. Community colleges serve almost half of the undergraduates in the U.S., including many minority, low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students, and many of these students are pursuing careers in life sciences. In this rapidly changing field, it is important that community college faculty have up-to-date teaching materials that reflect the most recent discoveries in biology and innovative data-analysis approaches. This RCN-UBE network will bring together a community of two-year college faculty to create appropriate teaching materials and offer professional development with the goal of incorporating cutting-edge biology research and high-impact teaching practices to improve student outcomes. Empowering community college faculty to increase student success will have a significant impact on the qualifications and diversity of the science and technology workforce. The resources developed by the network will be openly licensed and available in the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES), National Science Digital Library (NSDL), Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), and similar open-access content hubs, thus sustaining the resources beyond the span of the grant. Professional development will be offered in person at various conferences and workshops, as well as virtually through the QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network model. This network focuses on generating materials for and by community college faculty; however, the Open Education Resources (OER) collection and the professional development designed to support the use of these materials are relevant for all biology faculty teaching introductory undergraduate courses, and faculty outside of the network are free to use and adapt the resources for their own curriculum. The network will advance preparation of adjunct faculty and recruitment of future faculty, who might not otherwise have the opportunity to build relationships with full-time community college faculty around the country. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, 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/finalreport/).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.

生命科学专业的学生必须具备良好的数学和定量技能，以便在数据日益丰富的生物技术、医疗保健和农业领域工作。社区学院为美国近一半的本科生提供服务，其中包括许多少数民族、低收入家庭、第一代和代表性不足的学生，其中许多学生正在追求生命科学方面的职业。在这个瞬息万变的领域，社区大学教师拥有反映生物学最新发现和创新数据分析方法的最新教材是很重要的。这个RCN-UBE网络将汇集一个由两年制大学教师组成的社区，以创建合适的教材，并提供专业发展，目标是将尖端生物学研究和高影响力的教学实践结合起来，以提高学生的成绩。授权社区大学教师提高学生的成功将对科学和技术劳动力的资格和多样性产生重大影响。该网络开发的资源将在定量本科生物学教育与综合（QUBES）、国家科学数字图书馆（NSDL）、开放教育资源社区学院联盟（CCCOER）和类似的开放获取内容中心开放许可，从而在拨款期限之外维持资源。专业发展将在各种会议和研讨会上亲自提供，也可以通过QUBES教师指导网络模式进行虚拟培训。该网络的重点是为社区学院教师制作材料；然而，开放教育资源（OER）集合和支持使用这些材料的专业发展与所有讲授入门本科课程的生物学教师相关，网络之外的教师可以自由使用和调整资源以适应他们自己的课程。该网络将促进兼职教师的准备和未来教师的招聘，否则他们可能没有机会与全国各地的全职社区学院教师建立关系。该项目由生物基础设施司生物科学理事会和本科教育司教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，作为其应对《本科生物学教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》（http://visionandchange/finalreport/）所提出的挑战的努力的一部分。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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• DOI: 10.1002/cc.20449
• 发表时间: 2021-06
• 期刊: New Directions for Community Colleges
• 作者: Tara Jo Holmberg;Sharon Gusky;Stacey Kiser;V. Karpakakunjaram;Heather M. Seitz;L. Fletcher;L. Fields;Apryl Nenortas;A. Corless;Katrina Marcos

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• 发表时间: 2019
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• 作者: Karpakakunjaram, Vedham;Jenkins, Kristin
• 通讯作者: Jenkins, Kristin

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• DOI: 10.1007/s11538-020-00781-4
• 发表时间: 2020-08-08
• 期刊: BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY
• 影响因子: 3.5
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• 通讯作者: Thompson, Katerina, V