RCN-UBE: ImmunoReach - An interdisciplinary community of practice to promote immune literacy.

RCN-UBE：ImmunoReach - 一个促进免疫素养的跨学科实践社区。

• 批准号: 2316260
• 负责人: Sumali Pandey
• 金额: $ 49.94万
• 依托单位: Minnesota State University Moorhead
• 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 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316260&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; ImmunoReach; interdisciplinary; community

This project will expand the ImmunoReach network to develop and test new tools for teaching immunology in college biology courses. Immunological terms and concepts are complicated and new discoveries are made every year. This can discourage people from learning about this important topic and makes it difficult for instructors to keep current in the subject. The lesson plans that will be developed in this project will make immunology concepts easier to understand and help teachers feel comfortable teaching immunology across all levels of courses. This work by ImmunoReach will help improve the quality of biology education and support public understanding of important societal issues such as combatting infectious disease, vaccination, and impacts of climate change.ImmunoReach is an interdisciplinary Community of Practice (CoP) that aims to foster immune literacy and increase access to immunology education beyond traditional immunology-specific classrooms. This CoP will identify a common language between disciplines to discuss and share curricular challenges and solutions with the broader community. To accomplish this, we will look towards the key concepts and competencies described in The Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action report, and Benchmarks for Science Literacy (AAAS, 2011 and 1993, respectively). The ImmunoReach network will bring together educators who are committed to the goals of fostering immune literacy, through the use of evidence-based pedagogical practices. The network will develop teaching resources that integrate immunology-related interdisciplinary learning outcomes, for example, those intersecting with microbiology, genetics, ecology, evolution, physiology and chemistry. Less experienced educators of immunology, representing diverse institutional and disciplinary expertise, will be paired with experienced immunology educators for developing, implementing, and assessing these interdisciplinary teaching resources, based on a backward design approach and active learning strategies. The products generated at the end of this project will be shared with the network participants and the broader community through ImmunoReach’s QUBES hub site, virtual symposiums, conference presentations, journal publications, and other outreach activities. The network will empower educators to positively impact diverse student populations with the ultimate aim to foster immune literacy. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure and the Directorate for STEM Education, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).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.

该项目将扩展ImmunoReach网络，以开发和测试用于大学生物学课程中免疫学教学的新工具。免疫学术语和概念非常复杂，每年都有新的发现。这可能会阻碍人们学习这个重要的主题，并使教师难以保持当前的主题。在这个项目中开发的课程计划将使免疫学概念更容易理解，并帮助教师在各级课程中教授免疫学。ImmunoReach的这项工作将有助于提高生物学教育的质量，并支持公众对重要社会问题的理解，如对抗传染病，疫苗接种和气候变化的影响。ImmunoReach是一个跨学科的实践社区（CoP），旨在培养免疫素养，增加传统免疫学特定课堂之外的免疫学教育。该CoP将确定学科之间的共同语言，与更广泛的社区讨论和分享课程挑战和解决方案。为了实现这一目标，我们将着眼于在本科生物学教育的愿景和变化中描述的关键概念和能力：一个呼吁行动报告，科学素养的基准（AAAS，2011年和1993年，分别）。ImmunoReach网络将通过使用基于证据的教学实践，将致力于促进免疫扫盲目标的教育工作者聚集在一起。该网络将开发整合免疫学相关跨学科学习成果的教学资源，例如，与微生物学，遗传学，生态学，进化，生理学和化学交叉的教学资源。经验较少的免疫学教育工作者，代表不同的机构和学科专业知识，将与经验丰富的免疫学教育工作者配对，根据落后的设计方法和主动学习策略，开发，实施和评估这些跨学科的教学资源。项目结束时产生的产品将通过ImmunoReach的QUBES中心网站、虚拟研讨会、会议演示、期刊出版物和其他外联活动与网络参与者和更广泛的社区共享。该网络将使教育工作者能够对不同的学生群体产生积极影响，最终目标是促进免疫扫盲。该项目由生物基础设施部生物科学理事会和本科教育部STEM教育理事会联合资助，作为应对本科生物学教育中的愿景和变革所带来的挑战的努力的一部分：行动呼吁（网址：//visionandchange/finalreport/）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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.