Inclusive Fieldwork Toolkit - Community resource of technology to enable accessible fieldwork

第1部分实地课程是以实地为重点的科学学科教与学的关键要素。然而，残疾学生往往无法访问关键网站。不能与同龄人和教师接触现场的学生会被分配替代作业，这些作业不会提供与学生在现场接受的探究式协作学习水平相同的作业。以技术为中介的协作实地考察方法已被证明是促进学生参与的有效手段，否则这些学生将被排除在外。然而，促进远程访问的适当通信技术的成本对许多实地课程讲师来说是一个障碍。建立一套贷款设备将使残疾学生和教师能够更广泛地获得和积极参与实地教学、学习和研究。一个主要成果将是增加实地学科的社会包容性，这将有助于吸引其他代表性不足的群体研究地球科学，并提供进一步的机会，促进高等教育和相关学科的多样性和包容性。第2部分赠款将建立一个包容性实地工作工具包，使注重实地的科学教师能够将久经考验的辅助技术纳入其教学，并为各机构分享包容性实地工作实践提供基础，促进更广泛的地球科学界的多样性和包容性。已建立的工具包将支持以下目标：-为包容性现场体验提供设备。-建立学生和教师研究人员社区，从事与无障碍相关的项目，然后他们可以生成用例报告，并成为系统培训员，以便在其他机构部署。-通过利用已建立和评估的一套设备复制教学实践，为协作和创新创造新的机会。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。

Part 1Field courses are a critical element of teaching and learning in the field-focused science disciplines. However, key sites are often inaccessible to students with disabilities. Students who cannot access a field location with their peers and instructors are given alternate assignments that do not provide the same level of inquiry-based, collaborative learning that students receive in the field. Technology-mediated approaches to collaborative fieldwork have been shown to be an effective means of enabling participation for students who would otherwise be excluded. However, the cost of appropriate communication technology to facilitate remote access is a barrier for many field course instructors. Establishing a set of loan equipment will enable broader accessibility and active participation in field-based teaching, learning and research for students and faculty with disabilities. A major outcome will be increasing the social inclusion within the field-based disciplines which will help attract other under-represented groups to study the geosciences and provide further opportunities to promote diversity and inclusion within higher education and the associated disciplines.Part 2This grant will establish an inclusive fieldwork toolkit to enable field-focused science instructors to integrate tried-and-tested assistive technology into their teaching and provide a basis for sharing inclusive fieldwork practices across institutions, promoting diversity and inclusion in the broader geoscience community. The established toolkit will support the following goals:- Provide access to equipment for inclusive field experiences.- Establish a community of student and faculty researchers engaged in accessibility-related projects who could then generate use-case reports and become system trainers for deployment at other institutions.- Create new opportunities for collaboration and innovation by reproducing instructional practices utilizing an established and evaluated set of equipment.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.