Conference: Building HSI Learning Resilience in the Face of Crisis

在改进的本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)的支持下，本次会议旨在了解大流行的影响及其对HSI学生学习的持续影响。随着2020年3月新冠肺炎疫情在所有50个州得到证实，美国突然采取行动，全面开展远程教育并关闭大学校园，这给所有机构带来了许多不确定性，包括服务于拉美裔的机构。为了应对这一问题，拟议中的会议将把100-150名与会者带入一个为期3天的虚拟会议。所有供分享的视频和相关材料将存档在会议后网页上，供公众查阅。在当前的环境下，体验式的、基于地点的、协作的和以社区为中心的学习实践的概念受到了深刻的挑战。此外，这些挑战预计将对从这些创新学习方法中受益最多的服务不足的学生群体产生不成比例的巨大影响(通常被确定为第一代、佩尔接受者、拉丁裔、非裔美国人和美洲原住民)。因此，迫切需要记录正在发生的情况，并制定新的解决办法，以改善结果。本次会议将记录对创建复原力的当前做法的理解，重点是探索新的数字工具以加强远程学习。这个项目将主要集中在(A)缓解数字鸿沟；(B)实验室、设计项目和远程实习；(C)使用远程学习工具加强指导；(D)数字学习：HSI的教职员工、学生和学生家庭说些什么？；(E)使用数据科学为下一代学习软件提供信息；和(F)Quo vadis？，一个论坛，了解HSI社区将如何计划采用会议后讨论的数字工具。本次会议还将使与会者能够：1)在分组会议期间与其他机构合作；(2)与其他HIS在桌面演练中的情景进行合作；(3)访问事件的录音，以巩固所学知识并观看分组会议；以及(4)建立一个由新的数字工具驱动的社区，为未来的会议、研讨会、网络研讨会和研讨会开发新工具和主要想法。使用网络研讨会工具的能力将使对会议专题感兴趣的更广泛的受众能够同步进入会议。这次会议将包括管理人员、教职员工、学生和学生家庭，以更好地传播数字学习工具的思想。参加这次会议有可能提高HSI现在和未来的弹性和反弹能力，因为教职员工、学生和家人将从会议期间获得的共享知识中获得更多知识。HSI计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育和HSI的能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this conference aims to understand the effects of the pandemic and its continuing impact on HSI students’ learning. As the COVID-19 pandemic became confirmed in all 50 states in March 2020, there was an abrupt move to fully distance learning instruction and closing of college campuses, leading to many uncertainties for all institutions, including Hispanic-Serving Institutions. To combat this, the proposed conference will bring 100-150 participants into a 3-day virtual conference. All video and related materials for sharing will be archived in the conference web page post meeting for public access. In the current environment, the notions of experiential, place-based, collaborative, and community centered learning practices have been deeply challenged. Furthermore, these challenges are predicted to have a disproportionately large impact on underserved student populations who benefit the most from these innovative learning approaches (generally identified as first generation, Pell recipient, Latinx, African American, and Native American). As such, there is an urgent need to document what is happening and develop new solutions to improve outcomes. This conference will document the understanding of current practices to create resiliency with an emphasis on exploring new digital tools to enhance distance learning. This project will primarily focus on (a) Mitigating the Digital Divide; (b) Lab, Design Projects, and Internships from a Distance; (c) Enhancing Mentoring using Distance learning Tools; (d) Digital Learning: What are HSI Faculty, Students, and Families of Students Saying?; (e) Use of Data Science to Inform Nextgen Learning Software; and (f) Quo vadis?, a forum to understand how the HSI community will plan to adapt digital tools discussed post conference. This conference will also enable participants to: 1) collaborate with other institutions during breakout sessions; (2) work through scenarios in tabletop drills with other HSIs; (3) gain access to recordings of the event to reinforce what was learned and view breakout sessions; and (4) build a community powered by new digital tools to develop new tools and prime ideas for future conferences, symposia, webinars, and workshops. Capacity using webinar tools will allow synchronous access to the conference to a wider audience interested in the conference topic. This conference will include administrators, faculty, students, and families of students to better disseminate ideas of digital learning tools. Attending this conference has the potential to improve the ability of HSIs to be resilient and to bounce-back now and in the future as faculty, students, and family will be more knowledgeable from shared knowledge acquired during the conference. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.