RAPID: Collaborative Research: Increased access to infrastructure for distance education in hydrologic science

RAPID：合作研究：增加水文科学远程教育基础设施的获取

• 批准号: 2028793
• 负责人: Jerad Bales
• 金额: $ 1.96万
• 依托单位: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sci
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-15 至 2021-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028793&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Increased; access

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sudden shift to online teaching for most universities in the United States, and many globally. With little time to prepare, water resource and hydrology professors and lecturers must generate online content rapidly for at least the spring and summer semesters of 2020, with an increasing possibility this format will extend into the fall 2020 term. At the same time, there is large variation in access to and preparation for online delivery among institutions and individual faculty. In the hydrologic sciences, we expect preparation for the transition to online instruction and the resultant learning to vary based on program size, institution, instructor experience, and availability of instructional support. Taken together, there is a significant risk that hydrologic instruction will divide into “haves” and “have nots” as a result of these critical differences. Equal access to critical support and instructional resources during the transition from traditional to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is critical to closing this gap and providing equal access to high quality instruction in the hydrologic sciences. Thus, our goal is to enable access to educational infrastructure and training for instructors, and ultimately students, in the hydrologic sciences in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This project will implement six key activities to achieve our goal including: (1) facilitating two-way communication between instructors and students through panel discussions and survey templates; (2) enabling sharing of course materials through CUAHSI’s HydroShare platform; (3) developing open-source, data-driven educational resources; (4) developing a guest lecture database for hydrologic sciences; (5) community training and support using distance education materials and platforms; and (6) hosting a series of workshops and producing a synthesis report on distance education in the hydrologic sciences. The result of these activities will be a leveled playing field for accessible, quality education to all instructors and students in hydrologic science. Moreover, we expect these efforts to foster a community of online educators in hydrologic science who will develop and use educational resources that will persist well beyond the present COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the expanded use of distance education resources supports ongoing initiatives to expand Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in the hydrologic sciences by CUAHSI and the HydroLearn platform to share undergraduate educational materials.This award was co-funded by the Hydrologic Sciences and Education and Human Resources programs in the Division of Earth Sciences.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.

COVID-19 大流行导致美国和全球许多大学的大多数大学突然转向在线教学。由于准备时间很少，水资源和水文学教授和讲师必须至少在 2020 年春季和夏季学期快速生成在线内容，而且这种格式延续到 2020 年秋季学期的可能性越来越大。与此同时，各机构和个别教师在访问和准备在线授课方面存在很大差异。在水文科学领域，我们预计过渡到在线教学的准备工作以及由此产生的学习会根据项目规模、机构、教师经验和教学支持的可用性而有所不同。总而言之，由于这些关键差异，水文教学存在着分为“有”和“无”的重大风险。在应对 COVID-19 大流行的从传统学习向远程学习过渡期间，平等获得关键支持和教学资源对于缩小这一差距并提供平等获得水文科学高质量教学的机会至关重要。因此，我们的目标是为水文科学领域的教师（最终是学生）提供教育基础设施和培训，以应对 COVID-19 大流行。该项目将实施六项关键活动来实现我们的目标，包括：（1）通过小组讨论和调查模板促进教师和学生之间的双向沟通​​； (2) 通过 CUAHSI 的 HydroShare 平台实现课程材料的共享； (3) 开发开源、数据驱动的教育资源； (4) 开发水文科学客座讲座数据库； (5) 利用远程教育材料和平台进行社区培训和支持； (6) 举办一系列研讨会并编写水文科学远程教育综合报告。这些活动的结果将为水文科学领域的所有教师和学生提供一个公平的竞争环境，提供优质的教育。此外，我们期望这些努力能够培育一个水文科学在线教育工作者社区，他们将开发和使用教育资源，这些资源将在当前的 COVID-19 大流行之后持续存在。最后，远程教育资源的扩大使用支持了 CUAHSI 和 HydroLearn 平台共享本科教育材料的持续扩大水文科学多样性、平等和包容性的举措。该奖项由地球科学部水文科学、教育和人力资源项目共同资助。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用 基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。