RAISE: Guiding Earth Educators to Transformative Resources: Broadening the Scope and Increasing the Efficacy of the SERC Discovery System

RAISE：引导地球教育工作者进行变革性资源：扩大 SERC 发现系统的范围并提高其效率

• 批准号: 2034189
• 负责人: Sean Fox
• 金额: $ 99.92万
• 依托单位: Carleton College
• 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: 2020-09-15 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2034189&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAISE; Guiding; Earth; Educators; Transformative

This project will improve the tools and practices that support resource discovery for Earth educators visiting SERC-hosted websites. The Earth education community identified improving discovery as its highest priority action for maximizing the impact of the SERC-held collections of education materials. In addition, we will modify tools in the Serckit platform to allow users of the SERC sites to discover Earth education materials hosted by other organizations. This will increase the visibility of resources from many sources and provide the community with a one-stop portal for finding high quality educational materials. The new search and exploration tools will directly support connecting users to materials that: integrate research-driven pedagogy, prioritize student engagement with current research data, and increase the visibility of the community's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, thereby elevating the spread of these important practices. The investigators will use a systematic, community-informed process to guide the upgrades, ensuring changes lead to increasing impact of the materials and resources.The investigators will engage in a user-centered design process: a cyclical feedback loop of gathering community input, making targeted improvements and evaluating the results. The focus of this process will be to 1) make iterative improvements to a wide-range of site features intended to improve discovery and 2) expand the range of resources discoverable to include those not directly hosted by SERC. This expanded scope, facilitated by SERC tools for cataloging external resources, will connect the large Earth education audience already on SERC sites to the rich array of resources, projects, and events developed by external Earth education programs including research centers (e.g., UNAVCO, IRIS, UCAR, OOI, CUAHSI) and efforts funded by GEOPAths and NSF INCLUDES. The evaluative part of the design cycle will require developing a deeper understanding of how users engage in discovery with the current site and establishing metrics that characterize how well the modifications and expansion made serve the users.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.

该项目将改进工具和实践，支持地球教育工作者访问serc托管的网站发现资源。地球教育界将改进发现确定为其最优先的行动，以最大限度地发挥serc收藏的教育材料的影响。此外，我们将修改Serckit平台上的工具，以允许SERC网站的用户发现由其他组织托管的地球教育材料。这将增加来自许多来源的资源的可见性，并为社区提供一站式的门户网站，以寻找高质量的教育资料。新的搜索和探索工具将直接支持将用户连接到以下材料：整合研究驱动的教学法，优先考虑学生参与当前研究数据，并提高社区多样性，公平性和包容性努力的可见性，从而提升这些重要实践的传播。调查人员将使用一个系统的、社区知情的过程来指导升级，确保变化导致材料和资源的影响增加。调查人员将参与以用户为中心的设计过程：收集社区输入，进行有针对性的改进和评估结果的周期性反馈循环。这个过程的重点将是：1)对广泛的站点特性进行迭代改进，以提高发现能力；2)扩大可发现资源的范围，包括那些没有直接由SERC托管的资源。在SERC外部资源编目工具的推动下，这一扩大的范围将把SERC网站上的大量地球教育受众与外部地球教育计划开发的丰富资源、项目和事件联系起来，这些计划包括研究中心（例如，UNAVCO、IRIS、UCAR、OOI、CUAHSI）以及由GEOPAths和NSF INCLUDES资助的努力。设计周期的评估部分需要更深入地了解用户如何参与当前站点的发现，并建立描述修改和扩展如何为用户服务的指标。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。