A Workshop to Share, Explore, Develop, and Evaluate Online Petrology Teaching Resources and Strategies in Varied and Evolving Geoscience Education Settings

该项目旨在为国家利益服务，将一群具有广泛经验和教学需求的大学教职员工聚集在一起，共同探索和开发在线资源，用于他们的课程工作。由于在新冠肺炎大流行期间，许多教师在远程授课时开发并大量使用了在线资源，因此这是大学教师分享和建立这些经验的重要时刻，以更好地利用基于网络的工具和数据进行教学。通过演讲和讨论，参与者将确定并创造新的方法来使用在线资源来改善学生在课堂上的学习。在地球科学领域，一些高度互动的网页已经被开发出来，通过建立在学生主动学习的积极影响的基础上，帮助学生理解复杂的主题。在这些网页上，学生可以控制图表和其他图表，这样他们既可以更改显示的数据，包括上传自己的数据，也可以更改显示本身的功能。在研讨会期间，参与者的小组将根据他们的集体知识和最近的网络经验，设计利用在线互动网页的学习活动。由此产生的活动将供所有能够使用计算机的教师和学生使用。这次研讨会的成果将超越地球科学，成为其他难以教授概念的STEM学科的范例。参加工作坊的将是地质学家，他们教授有关火成岩和变质岩的课程和/或矿物学/岩石学(地球材料)的综合课程。相图、矿物组合图、微量元素图、分步结晶模型、动力学模型和其他岩石学的基本工具都很难学习。岩石学在线教学资源的最新发展为加强甚至加速岩石学学习提供了新的途径。基于Web的工具通过鼠标悬停、滑块和其他效果使这些图表和模型生动活泼，有可能促进学生学习这些困难的概念和调查方法。研讨会的一个主要目标是让岩石学教师共同努力，确定和开发利用在线资源改善教和学的新方法。他们的工作成果将与其他教师在线分享，效仿科学教育资源中心网站上记录的过去岩石学教学研讨会的良好范例。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高STEM教育对所有学生的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 bringing together a group of college faculty with a wide range of experiences and teaching needs to work together to explore and develop online resources for use in their coursework. Because many faculty both developed and made considerable use of online resources when courses were taught remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, this is an important time for college teachers to share and build upon those experiences to make better use of web-based tools and data in teaching. Through presentations and discussions, the participants will identify and create new ways to use online resources to improve student learning in their classes. In the geosciences, some highly interactive web pages have been developed to help students understand complex topics by building on the positive effects of student-active learning. On those web pages, students are given control over graphs and other diagrams so that they can change both the data displayed, including uploading their own data, and also change features of the display itself. During the workshop, small groups of participants will design learning activities that take advantage of online interactive web pages based upon their collective knowledge and recent web experiences. The resulting activities will be made available for use by all teachers and students with access to computers. Outcomes from this workshop will be significant beyond the geosciences, serving as examples for other STEM disciplines with difficult concepts to teach. Participants in the workshop will be geologists who teach courses about igneous and metamorphic rocks and/or combined mineralogy/petrology (earth materials) courses. Phase diagrams, mineral assemblage diagrams, trace element diagrams, fractional crystallization models, kinetic models, and other fundamental tools of petrology are challenging to learn. Recent developments in online resources for teaching petrology offer new paths to enhance and perhaps accelerate petrology learning. Web-based tools that bring these diagrams and models alive with mouseover, slider, and other effects have the potential to facilitate student learning of these difficult concepts and investigative approaches. A principal goal of the workshop is for petrology teachers, working together, to identify and develop new ways to use online resources to improve teaching and learning. The products of their work will be shared online with other teachers, following the good example of past petrology teaching workshops documented on the Science Education Resource Center website. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students.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.