RCN-UBE Incubator: KBase Educators: Microbiome Workforce Development Program

本科教育工作者努力将有用和有意义的技能，使他们的学生参与当前的研究，并为他们的学生在科学工作做好准备。然而，获得支持微生物组研究培训的资源限制了许多机构有效教授这些技能的能力。KBase教育工作者：微生物组劳动力发展研究协调网络（RCN）孵化器计划专注于开发更具包容性和可访问性的微生物组研究课程，使各种机构能够培训学生成功进入劳动力市场所需的技能。除了教学资源外，RCN还将汇集一个跨越五种类型机构的同行支持网络，目标是建立公平的伙伴关系，使每个教育工作者都能为开发全面的微生物组研究做出有意义的贡献，的课程，准确地反映了现实的资源和标准的访问。参与教育工作者将组成工作组，以开发一个模块课程的指导问题微生物组如何应对整个生态系统的气候变化和对人类的潜在影响，最终在学生主导的数据出版物。RCN将支持一个研讨会，教育工作者可以与同行共同创建和试运行模块，并接受合作伙伴组织的培训，如农业微生物组RCN，国家生态观测网络和国家微生物组数据协作。这将使他们做好准备，在课堂上，在一系列机构试点模块，并收集反馈和概述建议，以扩大该计划在随后几年。培养包容性劳动力的目标是使学生成为能够回答当前问题并生成开放数据的下一代研究人员，以应对我们未来的重大挑战。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教育理事会共同资助，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.

Undergraduate educators strive to incorporate useful and meaningful skills that engage their students in current research and prepare their students for jobs in science. However, access to resources that support training in microbiome research limit the ability of many institutions to effectively teach these skills. The KBase Educators: Program for Microbiome Workforce Development Research Coordination Network (RCN) Incubator is focused on developing a more inclusive and accessible microbiome research curriculum that enables a diversity of institutions to train students with the skills necessary to successfully enter the workforce. In addition to teaching resources, the RCN will bring together a peer support network that reaches across five types of institutions, with the goal of forming equitable partnerships that allows each educator to contribute meaningfully to develop a comprehensive microbiome research-based curriculum that accurately reflects realistic access to resources and standards.Participating educators will form working groups to develop a modular curriculum with the guiding question of how microbiomes respond to climate change across ecosystems and potential impacts for humans that culminates in student-led data publications. The RCN will support a workshop where educators can co-create and trial-run modules with their peers, and receive training from partner organizations, such as the Agricultural Microbiome RCN, National Ecological Observatory Network, and National Microbiome Data Collaborative. This will prepare them to pilot the modules in their classrooms, across a range of institutions, and to collect feedback and outline recommendations to scale the program in subsequent years. The goal of training an inclusive workforce is to enable students to become the next generation of researchers capable of answering current questions and generating open data that will address the grand challenges of our future. 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.