RAPID: Supporting Universities with Online Educational Materials through the MetEd Website

大学教职员工面临着前所未有的挑战，他们迅速将许多教学活动转移到虚拟环境中。在大气科学中，这种转变需要找到让学生学习复杂科学过程的方法，并创造出让学生使用数值模型和观测数据集应用这些概念的方法。这个项目将开发一个关于彗星气象课程和图形/动画的在线指南，以便大学教员能够在今年秋天快速找到高质量的互动课程、图形和数据集，并将其纳入他们的气象学课程。将彗星当前课程和图形/动画映射到气象学标准本科课程的在线指南将通过Comet的Med网站广泛传播，该网站拥有超过625,000名注册用户。该项目将产生1)在线指南，绘制气象学标准课程的当前课程地图，2)捆绑气象学标准课程的图形和动画图库，3)包含绘制的Meted课程的新在线课程，包括必备和可选组件，使用户可以完成所有必要的课程，以获得在线结业证书。为了制作大学课程课程图，COMET的工作人员将调查几个主要大学气象学项目的课程课程和教学大纲，以创建代表大气科学/气象学学位的典型专业课程要求的“综合课程”。Comet还将参考美国气象学会关于学士学位的最新声明，以确保从专业的角度与当前和未来的学术需求保持一致。该项目将集中在气象学/大气科学学位课程中被广泛教授的七门课程；气象学入门、物理气象学、动力气象学、天气气象学、天气分析与预报、中尺度气象学和遥感。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。

University faculty are faced with unprecedented challenges as they quickly transition many of their teaching activities to virtual environments. In atmospheric science, this transition requires finding ways to engage students in learning about complex scientific processes and creating ways for students to apply these concepts using numerical models and observational datasets. This project will develop an online guide to COMET’s MetEd lessons and graphics/animations so as to enable university faculty to quickly find and incorporate high-quality interactive lessons, graphics and datasets into their meteorology courses this fall. The online guide that maps current COMET lessons and graphics/animations to standard undergraduate courses in meteorology will be broadly disseminated through COMET’s freely-available MetEd website, which has over 625,000 registered users.This project will produce 1) an online guide that maps current lessons available on MetEd to standard courses in meteorology, 2) a gallery of graphics and animations bundled for standard courses in meteorology and 3) new online courses that contain the mapped MetEd lessons, with required and optional components, such that users can complete all required lessons to earn an online certificate of completion. To create the university curricula lesson mapping, COMET staff will survey course curricula and syllabi from several leading university programs in meteorology to create a “composite curriculum” that represents the typical in-major course requirements for an atmospheric science/meteorology degree. COMET will also reference the most recent American Meteorological Society Statement on Bachelor’s Degree to ensure alignment with current and future academic needs from the professional vantage point. The project will focus on seven widely taught courses in meteorology/atmospheric science degree programs; introductory meteorology, physical meteorology, dynamic meteorology, synoptic meteorology, weather analysis & forecasting, mesoscale meteorology, and remote sensingThis 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.