Neuromatch Academy (NMA) support and evaluation

Neuromatch Academy (NMA) 支持和评估

• 批准号: 2039382
• 负责人: Konrad Kording
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 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: 2020-10-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2039382&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Neuromatch; Academy; NMA; support; evaluation

Neuromatch Academy (NMA) is an online summer school that will train about 7,000 neuroscientists in modern data science and modeling methods. These methods are the basis of considerable endeavors in industry and academia, including neuroscience, robotics, and cognitive modeling. This project will support student participation and evaluation of the academy.A central component of the education of neuroscientists is intensive summer schools, which usually run for two weeks. They are usually expensive, require travel, and open only to small numbers of participants. NMA aims to provide a three-week summer school in an online fashion providing outstanding quality of education. It uses teaching-assistant-led small virtual tutorials (about 10 students each), globally broadcast question and answer sessions through crowdcast, professor-guided project work, and a host of further approaches to produce a deep learning experience. Focusing on a tight interactions with other participants, TAs, and professors give it a unique profile among approaches to online teaching. In a post-COVID world, innovating in online education is of crucial importance and NMA has both a strong mission of innovation and a strong evaluation plan to make sure it delivers on its promise. The evaluation approach will consists of questionnaires sent to participants, TAs, and lecturers as well as a causal analysis to see how NMA affects subsequent text use and collaboration patterns.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.

NeuroMatch Academy(NMA)是一个在线暑期学校，将培训约7000名神经科学家现代数据科学和建模方法。这些方法是工业界和学术界相当大的努力的基础，包括神经科学、机器人和认知建模。这个项目将支持学生的参与和对学院的评估。神经科学家教育的一个核心组成部分是密集的暑期学校，通常为期两周。它们通常很昂贵，需要旅行，而且只对少数参与者开放。NMA的目标是以在线方式提供为期三周的暑期学校，提供卓越的教育质量。它使用助教主导的小型虚拟教程(每个约10名学生)、通过Crowdcast向全球广播问答环节、由教授指导的项目工作以及许多进一步的方法来产生深度学习体验。专注于与其他参与者的紧密互动，助教和教授使其在在线教学方法中具有独特的地位。在后COVID时代，在线教育的创新至关重要，NMA既有强烈的创新使命，也有强有力的评估计划，以确保其兑现承诺。评估方法将包括向参与者、助教和讲师发送问卷，以及因果分析，以了解NMA如何影响后续的文本使用和合作模式。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。

项目成果

Neuromatch Academy: Teaching Computational Neuroscience with Global Accessibility

Neuromatch Academy：在全球范围内教授计算神经科学

• DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.03.018
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
• 影响因子: 19.9
• 作者: van Viegen, Tara;Akrami, Athena;Bonnen, Kathryn;DeWitt, Eric;Hyafil, Alexandre;Ledmyr, Helena;Lindsay, Grace W.;Mineault, Patrick;Murray, John D.;Pitkow, Xaq
• 通讯作者: Pitkow, Xaq