Building Adaptability for Teaching Online through Peer-Reviewed, Active-Learning Resources and Professional Development

该项目旨在通过帮助生命科学学院教师使用CourseSource存储库中的主动学习教学实践来教授在线课程，从而为国家利益服务。这个机构和社区转型1级项目将增加各种本科在线课堂的公开教育资源（OER）数量（例如，同步和异步在线课程，结合联合收割机亲自和在线教学的混合教室）。OER是在公共领域可用的教育材料。CourseSource发布同行评审的OER，实施基于研究的有效教学技术。增加免费在线开放式教育资源的数量，通过向教师提供课程和专业发展，解决了一个紧迫的需求。它还解决了一个长期的需要，通过组装一套广泛的资源，以满足日益增长的在线教育的需求。由于CourseSource已经建立了一个多样化的大型社区，使用其材料，该项目将直接改善数百名教师和数千名本科生物学学生的教学。该项目的统一目标是共享有效的在线课程，并帮助生物学教师实施这些课程，使学生受益。此外，推进同行评审的、教学上合理的OER材料的进步和发展，可以使更大的学术领域受益，因为它可以为教师和学生提供低成本或无成本的高质量资源。该项目将：1）使用CourseSource中发布的OER中的信息来确定教师如何在线实施主动学习教学策略，2）评估旨在帮助教师查找，调整，实施和共享在线课程的短期和长期在线专业发展计划，以及3）探索OER如何支持教师使用包括主动学习方法的在线课程。由于CourseSource出版物包括作者描述其教学方法的部分，因此可以挖掘它们以确定主动学习实践的类型和频率，以及与教学设计实践，通用学习设计（UDL）框架和基于证据的在线教学策略的一致性。研究结果将确定战略，将很容易跨上下文，教师需要更多的支持，以启动和保持这些做法在在线环境中的情况下，以及如何主动学习可以通过在线格式增强转移。该项目还将为教师创建多个专业发展计划，让他们学习撰写和发布在线课程，并实施以前发布的OER。这些计划将通过调查和社会网络分析进行评估。研究结果将允许探索教师是否以及如何改变对在线教学的信念，以及专业发展计划是否可以创建和维持教师支持网络。最后，访谈教师谁是实施OER在他们的课堂上将被用来确定教学材料的可用性如何影响教师的教学决策。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型的轨道，该计划支持的努力，以改变和改善高等教育机构和学科社区的STEM教育.这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估支持.

This project aims to serve the national interest by helping life science college instructors teach online lessons using active-learning instructional practices housed in the CourseSource repository. This Institutional and Community Transformation Level 1 project will increase the number of published open educational resources (OERs) for a variety of undergraduate online classrooms (e.g., synchronous and asynchronous online classes, hybrid classrooms that combine in-person and online teaching). OERs are educational materials that are available in the public domain. CourseSource publishes peer-reviewed OERs that implement research-based, effective pedagogical techniques. Increasing the number of freely-available online OERs addresses an immediate need by providing lessons and professional development to instructors. It also addresses a long-term need by assembling an extensive set of resources that meet the growing demand for online education. Because CourseSource has built a diverse and large community who uses its materials, this project will directly improve instruction for hundreds of instructors and thousands of undergraduate biology students.The unifying goal of this project will be to share effective online lessons and help biology instructors implement them to benefit their students. Furthermore, advancing the progress and development of peer-reviewed, pedagogically sound OER materials can benefit the larger academic landscape as it moves towards providing low- or no-cost access to high-quality resources for instructors and students. This project will: 1) Use information from the OERs published in CourseSource to determine how instructors implement active-learning instructional strategies online, 2) Evaluate short- and long-term online professional development programs designed to help instructors find, adapt, implement, and share online lessons, and 3) Explore how OERs can support instructors in using online lessons that include active-learning pedagogies. Since CourseSource publications include a section in which authors delineate their instructional approaches, they can be mined to determine the type and frequency of active-learning practices as well as alignment with instructional design practices, the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, and evidence-based strategies for online instruction. The results will identify strategies that will easily transfer across contexts, situations where instructors need greater support to initiate and maintain these practices in online environments, and ways active-learning can be enhanced by the online format. This project will also create multiple professional development programs for instructors in which they learn to write about and publish their online lessons and implement previously published OERs. These programs will be assessed through surveys and a Social Network Analysis. The results will allow the exploration of whether and how instructor beliefs about online teaching change, and if professional development programs can create and sustain instructor support networks. Finally, interviews with instructors who are implementing OERs in their classroom will be used to determine how the availability of instructional materials influences instructor pedagogical decisions. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.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.