Collaborative Research: Improving sustainability of InTeGrate-GETSI modules through development and implementation of a Community Contribution Tool

该项目旨在通过延长在Teach the Earth网站上发布的数千名地球科学教育者共享的教材的寿命，为国家利益服务。教材可供教师免费使用，其中许多教材包含了由教材作者最初编写的数据集。该项目将创建并实施社区贡献工具（CCT）的使用，以促进课程材料的更新，使其保持其对学生的影响力和相关性。CCT将提供一种机制，让讲师用户不断更新在线材料，并将支持地球科学教育者之间正在进行的社区建设工作。该项目还将举办一个研讨会，在研讨会上，教师参与者将测试CCT的使用情况，因为他们将为一套常用的、高质量的同行评审材料提供更新，这些材料是通过以前的NSF资助创建的，并于2013-2019年在线发布。这个项目的重要之处在于，教师们可以使用CCT对提交给Teach The Earth网站的现有和未来的在线教材进行更新，例如数据集。这将使成千上万的教师及其学生受益，他们将有机会获得数据丰富的最新和相关的教学资源。CCT将极大地促进课程开发和使用的持续努力，让学生培养数据分析技能，这对学生为STEM劳动力做准备至关重要。该项目的目标是创建和测试一种新工具，供地球科学教师更新数据集，并对在“教导地球”网站上发布的课程材料提出修改建议。社区贡献工具（CCT）将允许用户上传文件，例如更新的数据集和相关资源，从而提供一种机制来扩展数据和课程的流通和相关性。其他贡献可包括使用目标区域数据集或针对不同课程格式进行调整。CCT将由一组研讨会参与者进行测试，他们将使用该工具更新通过美国国家科学基金会资助的InTeGrate（及其附属）项目开发的课程模块，并于2013-2019年发布。更新的数据集将显著延长共享在线材料的使用寿命。研讨会还将包括教师在设计可持续课程资源方面的专业发展。一旦在讲习班上进行了测试，有条件的教学大纲将与在教学大纲上发布的其他课程一起使用，以便现有和未来的材料也可以通过众包机制进行更新。CCT将明确与活动相关的贡献的修订历史，以清楚地识别原始和新贡献的组成部分。该项目的预期成果包括：1)开发和彻底测试CCT，使新的和现有的数据丰富的教育资源具有可持续性，并通过更新使其具有长期可行性；2)更新和修订集成和相关模块，使其具有更多当前数据集，供教师和学生使用。项目成果将在随后的地球科学教育会议上报告，以告知社会并宣传有条件现金援助。该项目将加强教师对数据丰富的课程的使用，让学生利用数据集培养技能，从而帮助学生为STEM劳动力做好准备。NSF IUSE: EDU项目支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与学生学习轨道，该计划支持有前途的实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 extending the lifespan of teaching materials shared by thousands of geoscience educators that are published online on the Teach the Earth website. Materials are freely available for instructors to use, and many include data sets that were originally compiled by materials' authors. This project will create and implement the use of a Community Contribution Tool (CCT) to facilitate updates to curricular materials, so they maintain their currency and relevance to students. The CCT will provide a mechanism for the online materials to be continually refreshed by instructor users and will support ongoing community building efforts among geoscience educators. This project will also host a workshop in which faculty participants will test the use of the CCT as they contribute updates to a suite of commonly used, high quality peer-reviewed materials that were created through previous NSF funding and published online in 2013-2019. The importance of this project is that the CCT will be made available to faculty to contribute updates, such as data sets, to existing and future online teaching materials submitted to the Teach the Earth website. This will benefit thousands of instructors and their students, who will have access to data-rich teaching resources that are current and relevant. The CCT will significantly contribute to ongoing efforts in the development and use of curricula that engage students in building data analysis skills that are essential to students' preparation for the STEM workforce.The goals of this project are to create and test a new tool that will be available for geoscience instructors to update data sets and suggest modifications for curriculum materials that are published on the Teach the Earth (TTE) website. The Community Contribution Tool (CCT) will allow users to upload files, such as updated data sets and related resources, thus providing a mechanism to extend the currency and relevance of the data and curriculum. Other contributions could include the use of targeted regional data sets or adaptations for different course formats. The CCT will be tested by a group of workshop participants who will use the tool to update curricular modules that were developed through the NSF-funded InTeGrate (and affiliated) programs and were published in 2013-2019. Updated data sets will significantly extend the utility lifespan of the shared online materials. The workshop will also include faculty professional development in designing sustainable curricular resources. Once tested in the workshop, the CCT will be made available for use with other curricula posted on TTE so that existing and future materials can also be updated through a crowd-sourced mechanism. The CCT will make evident the revision history of contributions linked to activities to clearly identify the original, and newly contributed, components. Expected outcomes of this project include 1) developing and thoroughly testing the CCT to make new and existing data-rich educational resources sustainable with updates that result in their long-term viability and 2) updating and revising InTeGrate and related modules with more current data sets for use by faculty and their students. Project outcomes will be reported in subsequent geoscience education conference sessions to inform the community and publicize the CCT. This project will enhance instructors’ use of data-rich curriculum to engage students in building their skills using data sets, which supports preparing students for the STEM workforce. The NSF IUSE: EDU 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.