Linking Pedogogy, Resources and Community Interaction to Support Entry-Level Undergraduate Geoscience Courses

该项目包括开发一个主题集和专门的门户网站，供教师向大学生教授入门级地球科学，并正在探索国家自然科学图书馆促进本科教学改进的一些方法。该项目有两个主要组成部分：1)创建一个主题集，其中包含支持入门级教师教学所需的全套资源，包括教学资源（例如，可视化；实地、实验室和课堂活动；问题集），有效教学方法的信息，以及地球科学成功教学的例子。2)开发专门用于支持教授入门级地球科学的教师和研究生助教的门户网站。该门户网站以主题视图或模块的形式展示了这些资源，这些主题视图或模块将教学和内容资源联系起来，并将它们置于入门级地球科学教学的特定问题的背景下。支持教师的虚拟社区将是门户网站的一个组成部分。该收集正在围绕四个优先问题进行开发：基于探究的实验室和实地经验、使用地球系统方法、有效的教学方法和教授定量技能。该项目利用了NSDL现有馆藏的资源，包括几个dese馆藏、数学论坛、学习矩阵和性别与科学数字图书馆，展示了综合图书馆在学科间共享的力量。该项目由美国国家科学基金会地球科学理事会地球科学部提供重要的共同资助，以认识到该数字资源收集对研究生和本科生的入门级地球科学课程教学的重要性。

This project involves the development of a thematic collection and specialized portal for faculty teaching entry-level geoscience to college students and is exploring some of the ways that the NSDL can catalyze improvement in undergraduate teaching. The project has two major components: 1) Creation of a thematic collection that contains the full suite of resources needed to support faculty teaching at the entry level including teaching resources (e.g., visualizations; field, lab and classroom activities; problem sets), information on effective teaching methods, and examples of successful teaching in the geosciences. 2) Development of a portal designed specifically to support faculty and graduate teaching assistants teaching entry-level geoscience. The portal presents resources from the collection in thematic views or modules that link pedagogic and content resources and place them in the context of a specific issue in teaching entry-level geoscience. Supporting a virtual community of faculty will be an integral aspect of the portal. The collection is being developed around four priority issues: inquiry based laboratory and field experiences, using an Earth system approach, effective pedagogical approaches, and teaching quantitative skills. This project is drawing on resources in existing NSDL collections including several DLESE collections, the Math Forum, the Learning Matrix and the Gender and Science Digital Library demonstrating the power an integrated library holds for sharing among the disciplines. Significant co-funding of this project is being provided by the Division of Earth Sciences in the NSF Directorate for Geosciences in recognition of the importance that this collection of digital resources on teaching entry-level geoscience courses has for graduate students and undergraduate faculty.