Collaborative Research: GP-IN: Transforming geoscience fieldwork into integrated, virtual education experiences

合作研究：GP-IN：将地球科学实地考察转变为综合的虚拟教育体验

• 批准号: 2233487
• 负责人: Kristyn Voegele
• 金额: $ 19.43万
• 依托单位: Rowan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2233487&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; GP; Transforming; geoscience

Successful solutions to complex global challenges transcend disciplinary boundaries and necessitate integrating diverse fields of knowledge, making interdisciplinary education an urgent need to train our national workforce. Few sciences rely on integration more than geosciences, which play critical, foundational roles in nearly every sector of the U.S. economy, from energy exploration and environmental conservation to disaster preparedness. Experiences such as field trips, summer programs, and hands-on outdoor activities have been repeatedly shown to increase retention, maximize learning gains, and improve students’ attitudes, perceptions, and feelings toward STEM topics. Unfortunately, field trips can be costly, and physical disabilities and logistical and administrative constraints can restrict access to field-based learning opportunities for many students, potentially hindering their interest in geoscience. This project addresses this important impediment to inclusivity by developing the first immersive, online Virtual Field Trip (VFT) that capitalizes on the exciting imagery and experience of paleontologic fieldwork. The novel VFT will help address issues in exposure to geoscience content by providing high school and early-college teachers with freely available, geoscience-inclusive resources which can be easily incorporated into their existing classes.This project will capitalize on the broad appeal of both dinosaur paleontology and virtual field trips (VFT) by combining them into an innovative new resource for educators. The VFT will cover core principles of geography, math, biology, and physics within the context of a virtual paleontology expedition, which will function as an open-ended, self-paced, ‘capstone’ educational program embedded with a plethora of educational ‘training’ materials and media from real fieldwork. The primary goals of this project are to: (1) increase exposure to geosciences in high schools and early-college classrooms by incorporating lessons utilizing geoscience examples and problems into existing courses; (2) enhance educational content for traditional courses such as geography, math, physics, and biology by integrating these disciplines, and; (3) identify factors contributing to effective recruitment and retention in the geoscience pipeline so that they may be employed by educators to successfully broaden participation in these exciting and impactful fields.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.

复杂的全球挑战的成功解决方案超越学科界限，需要整合不同的知识领域，使跨学科教育成为培训我们国家劳动力的迫切需要。很少有科学比地球科学更依赖于整合，地球科学在美国经济的几乎每一个部门都发挥着关键的基础作用，从能源勘探和环境保护到灾害准备。实地考察、暑期项目和动手户外活动等经历一再被证明可以提高保留率，最大限度地提高学习收益，并改善学生对STEM主题的态度、看法和感受。不幸的是，实地考察可能是昂贵的，身体残疾和后勤和行政限制可能会限制许多学生获得实地学习的机会，可能会阻碍他们对地球科学的兴趣。该项目通过开发第一个沉浸式在线虚拟实地考察（VFT）来解决这一重要障碍，该项目利用了古生物学实地考察的令人兴奋的图像和经验。新的VFT将通过为高中和早期大学教师提供免费的、包含地球科学的资源来帮助解决接触地球科学内容的问题，这些资源可以很容易地整合到他们现有的课程中。该项目将利用恐龙古生物学和虚拟实地考察（VFT）的广泛吸引力，将它们结合起来，为教育工作者提供一个创新的新资源。VFT将涵盖地理，数学，生物学和物理学的核心原则，在虚拟古生物学探险的背景下，这将作为一个开放式的，自定进度的，“顶点”教育计划嵌入了大量的教育“培训”材料和媒体从真实的实地考察。该项目的主要目标是：（1）通过将利用地球科学实例和问题的课程纳入现有课程，增加高中和大学早期课堂对地球科学的接触;（2）通过整合这些学科，加强地理、数学、物理和生物等传统课程的教育内容;（三）确定有助于在地球科学管道中有效招聘和保留的因素，以便他们可以被教育工作者雇用，成功地扩大这些令人兴奋和有影响力的领域的参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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，认为值得支持。