Collaborative Research: Combining Real and Virtual Professional Development for Current and Future Geoscience Faculty

地球系统科学（40）地球科学教师的全国协会（NAGT）和地球系统教育数字图书馆（DLESE）提供专业发展计划，以提高本科地球科学教育的质量。该方案旨在提高参与者在新兴领域的内容知识，促进示范性教学做法;开发有效的在线资源，以支持现有的讲习班;提供讲习班的电子版本，以扩大讲习班的影响;并培养一批积极参与进一步传播的教育工作者。专业发展计划包括地球科学和教师发展研讨会的新兴主题。每年举办两个新专题讲习班，一个是与地球系统有关的跨学科领域，另一个是地球科学教学法。成熟的专题研讨会，根据以前的成功工作，包括：课程设计研讨会，早期职业教师研讨会，研究生和博士后研究员准备在学术界的职业研讨会。该项目开发的网络资源提供了一系列背景资源，旨在使参与者参与持续的讨论。该项目还探索了用于提供研讨会内容的教程、同步讨论和在线课程。参加研讨会的人员应根据积极让学生参与自己学习的原则开发课程材料，在研讨会后测试材料，并最终为DLESE收藏和社区中心做出贡献。讲习班规划和网络资源开发的一体化结合在一个独特的在线资源中，目的是将讲习班的经验远远扩展到参加面对面讲习班的人之外，并超出赠款的有效期。

Earth Systems Science (40)The National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) and the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is offering a professional development program to improve the quality of undergraduate geoscience education. The program is designed to enhance the participants' content knowledge in emerging fields and promote exemplary teaching practices; develop effective on-line resources to support existing workshops; provide electronic versions of workshops to extend the influence of the workshops; and develop an active cohort of educators involved in further dissemination. The professional development program includes both emerging topics in geoscience and faculty development workshops. Two emerging topics workshops are being offered each year, one in an interdisciplinary field related to Earth systems and one in geoscience pedagogy. Mature topical workshops, based on successful previous work, include: course design workshops, workshops for early career faculty, and workshops for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows preparing for careers in academia. Web resources developed by the project provide a collection of background resources and are designed to engage participants in on-going discussion. The project also explores tutorials, synchronous discussion, and on-line courses for delivering workshop content. Participants in the workshops are expected to develop course materials based on the principle of actively engaging students in their own learning, test materials following the workshop, and ultimately contribute to the DLESE Collection and Community Center. Integration of workshop planning and web-resource development are combined in a unique on-line resource aimed at extending the workshop experience far beyond those who attend the face-to-face workshops and beyond the lifetime of the grant.