Beyond Access: Leveraging Mobile-Friendly Design of Online Course Content to Support STEM Student Success

超越访问：利用在线课程内容的移动友好设计来支持 STEM 学生的成功

• 批准号: 2247976
• 负责人: Alex Rockey
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Bakersfield College
• 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: 2023-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2247976&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Beyond; Access; Leveraging; Mobile; Friendly

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 1 project responds to the pervasive lack of access to reliable home Internet that was highlighted as a barrier to student outcomes during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. A collaborative team of mathematics faculty, instructional designers, equity-minded practitioners, and accessibility experts will work together to design mobile-friendly course shells, or digital containers for course content, grading, and centralized student-instructor communication. In addition, they will also provide linked professional development opportunities to faculty. The majority of students in online courses use mobile devices to access course content. However, research has shown that women, students of color, students with disabilities, first-generation students, students who are independent, and students from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds see their devices as significantly more important to their success than do their peers outside these groups. While this establishes a clear need for mobile-friendly courses, there is a lack of research and guidelines on how to design online courses that are mobile accessible. In addition, there is a lack of research on how mobile-friendly courses affect student success in STEM. This project will develop empirically-based guidelines for designing mobile-friendly courses, as well as an understanding of how mobile-friendly courses can impact student success in STEM courses. Three principal outcomes are expected. First is the design of three mobile-friendly course shells with integrated grading for equity approaches intended to close equity gaps in anatomy and physiology, introductory physics, and statistics courses. Second is the completion of a research study that: (i) explores the impact of mobile-friendly course design on student success, (ii) develop understanding of student perspectives of mobile-friendly course design, and (iii) documents the student experiences in mobile-friendly courses. The third outcome is increased visibility and awareness to encourage broader faculty adoption of mobile-accessible courses. By designing mobile-friendly STEM courses, this project is taking important strides toward designing for equity. Courses will be made freely and widely available on Canvas Commons. To generate interest and awareness of the importance of mobile design, the project will disseminate outcomes on both key components of mobile design and the impact of mobile-friendly courses on student experiences and outcomes. Publication, presentations, and a project website will guide researchers, faculty and instructional designers who are interested in creating mobile-friendly courses or engaging in further study. A mixed-method project evaluation will inform the project's progress towards the HSI Program's aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity for improved STEM learning at HSIs. Achieving these aims, given the diverse nature and context of the HSIs, requires innovative approaches that incentivize institutional and community transformation and promote fundamental research on: (i) engaged student learning; (ii) insights into what it takes to diversify and increase participation in STEM effectively; and (iii) improved understanding of how to build institutional capacity for transformation at HSIs are supported by this program.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.

在不断改善的本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该曲目1项目响应了普遍存在的缺乏获得可靠的家庭互联网的访问，这在Covid-19-19-9 Pandmetic的高峰期间被强调为学生成果的障碍。一个数学教师，教学设计师，意识到的实践者和可访问性专家的合作团队将共同设计移动友好的课程壳，或用于课程内容，评分和集中化的学生教育沟通的数字容器。此外，他们还将为教师提供链接的专业发展机会。在线课程中的大多数学生都使用移动设备访问课程内容。但是，研究表明，妇女，有色人种，残疾学生，第一代学生，独立的学生以及来自弱势社会经济背景的学生认为，她们的设备对她们的成功比以外的同龄人更为重要。尽管这明确需要对移动友好的课程，但对于如何设计可访问移动设备的在线课程缺乏研究和指南。此外，缺乏有关移动友好型课程如何影响STEM学生成功的研究。该项目将制定基于经验的指南，以设计移动友好的课程，并了解对移动友好的课程如何影响学生在STEM课程中的成功。期望三个主要结果。首先是设计三个移动友好型课程壳，并具有集成的平等方法，以弥补解剖学和生理学，入门物理学和统计课程的股权差距。其次是完成一项研究的完成，该研究探讨了移动友好的课程设计对学生成功的影响，（ii）对学生对移动友好课程设计的看法的了解，以及（iii）记录了学生在移动友好课程中的经验。第三个结果是增加的知名度和意识，以鼓励更广泛的教师采用可移动的课程。通过设计对移动友好的STEM课程，该项目正在为股权设计而大步发展。课程将在帆布公地上自由和广泛使用。为了引起人们对移动设计重要性的兴趣和意识，该项目将在移动设计的关键组成部分以及移动友好的课程对学生体验和成果的影响上传播结果。出版，演讲和项目网站将指导研究人员，教职员工和教学设计师，他们有兴趣创建移动友好的课程或参与进一步学习。一项混合方法的项目评估将为该项目朝着HSI计划的进展提供旨在增强本科STEM教育，扩大对STEM的参与以及提高HSIS STEM学习能力的进展。鉴于HSI的多样性和背景，实现这些目标需要创新的方法来激励机构和社区转型，并促进基础研究：（i）参与学生学习； （ii）洞悉有效多样化和增加参与STEM所需的内容； （iii）该计划的支持得到了改进对HSIS的机构转型能力的了解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估的评估来支持的。