Scaling Experiential, Community-Engaged Learning using Micro-Role Based Curricula

该项目旨在为国家利益服务，建立一个新的基于项目的课程模式，使课程能够扩大学徒学习，并支持更丰富的现实世界社区参与学习。技术创新的快速发展导致劳动力市场不断变化，社会中越来越多地使用数字系统。这导致人们呼吁高等教育为学生提供更多的真实世界，体验式和社区参与式学习，在前一种情况下，可以让学生掌握过渡到劳动力所需的技能，在后一种情况下，让学生掌握为公共利益开发技术所需的技能。这将创造一种新的教学方法，通过这种方法，学习是模仿工作场所，讲座，部分和作业围绕小的经验微观角色组织，这些角色是学习途径的基石，这些学习途径支撑学习和组织结构，协调许多学生走向大型现实世界的项目。并反复部署两个项目课程和支持工具，为任何背景的学生提供可扩展的，真实的，社区参与的学习体验。该项目的目标是：发展组织模式，支持有效学习，同时使学习者能够完成重要的现实世界项目;研究同伴支持链，这是一种网络形式的指导，以加强同伴和近同伴的指导，使社区能够提供实时个性化指导，而不会压倒人们或引发旁观者效应;开发一个学习者来源的规则创建过程，创建详细的规则，同时促进大规模的反思和批评，并开发一个基于微观角色的学徒学习理论，描述学徒学习的方法如何在基于微观角色的学习中发挥作用及其对学习的影响，特别是对于那些代表性不足的学生。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。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the national interest by establishing a new model for project-based courses that enables courses to scale apprenticeship learning and to support richer real-world community-engaged learning for all. The rapid pace of technological innovation has led to a labor market undergoing continuous change and an increasing use of digital systems in society. This has led to calls for higher education to prepare students with more real-world, experiential, and community-engaged learning that can, in the former case, equip students with the skills needed for transitioning into the workforce, and in the latter case, equip students with the skills needed for developing technology for the public interest. This will create a novel pedagogical approach through which learning is modeled after the workplace, with lectures, sections, and assignments organized around small experiential micro-roles that are the building blocks for learning pathways that scaffold learning and organizational structures that coordinate many students towards large real-world projects.This project will take a design-based research approach to designing, developing, and repeatedly deploying two project courses and supporting tools to provide scalable, real-world, community-engaged learning experiences for students of any background. The objectives of the project are; to develop organizational patterns that scaffold effective learning while enabling learners to complete significant real-world projects; study peer support chaining, a networked form of mentorship for enhancing peer and near-peer mentorship in ways that enable real-time personalized guidance from a community without overwhelming people or triggering the bystander effect; develop a learner sourced rubric creation process that creates detailed rubrics while facilitating reflection and critique at scale, and develop a theory of micro-role based apprenticeship learning that characterizes how the methods of apprenticeship learning play out in micro-role based learning and their impact for learning, especially for underrepresented students. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.