Online Ocean Studies: National Dissemination with Collegial Professional Development Activity for Undergraduate Faculty in Minority-Serving Institutions

美国气象学会（AMS）与美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）和少数民族服务机构（MSI）教师咨询委员会合作，正在为来自75个少数民族服务机构（MSI）的教师提供专业发展，他们正在实施在线海洋研究。在线海洋研究是一个交钥匙远程学习课程，由AMS开发，部分通过互联网提供。 该课程和项目体现了通过独特的地方-国家教学伙伴关系持续发展教师的模式。该项目的目标是增加少数民族学生对科学、数学、工程和技术（STEM）的参与，同时促进大学海洋学入门课程的广泛教学。该项目解决了吸引少数民族大学生参加STEM研究，特别是海洋科学研究的迫切需要。参与教师（从每年25名MSIs开始，为期3年）参加在NOAA和大学海洋学设施举办的为期5天的讲习班，以及每年1月在AMS年会上举办的为期3天的科学内容和教学问题讲习班。该课程的知识价值是基于在海洋学教学中实施地球系统方法，其强调使用通过因特网传送的真实的世界和接近真实的时间的海洋学数据。拟议项目的更广泛影响是基于增加学生获得高质量学习体验的机会，目的是激发学生对STEM的兴趣。我们的目标是使数百个目前没有提供海洋学课程的本科院校提供大学水平的海洋学入门课程成为可能，特别是那些拥有大量学生的机构，这些学生来自传统上在STEM中代表性不足的群体。在线海洋研究模型的交付系统和教学伙伴关系具有其他课程的应用程序，特别是在那些依赖于互联网提供观测数据流的学科的显着潜力。

The American Meteorological Society (AMS), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and an Advisory Board of Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) faculty members, is providing professional development for faculty members from 75 minority-serving institutions (MSIs) who are implementing Online Ocean Studies. Online Ocean Studies is a turnkey distance-learning course developed by the AMS that is partially delivered by the Internet. The course and the project embody a model of continuous faculty development through a unique local-national teaching partnership. The goal of the project is to increase minority student participation in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM) while simultaneously promoting the widespread teaching of the introductory college-level oceanography course. The project addresses the acute need to attract minority college students to STEM studies, particularly in the ocean sciences. Participating faculty (from 25 MSIs per year for 3 years) attend a 5-day workshop at NOAA and university oceanographic facilities plus a 3-day workshop treating science content and pedagogical issues held at the AMS Annual Meeting each January.The intellectual merit of the course is based on the implementation of an Earth system approach to the teaching of oceanography, which emphasizes the use of real world and near real time oceanographic data delivered via the Internet. The broader impacts of the proposed project are based on increasing student access to high-quality learning experiences with the goal of spurring student interest in STEM. The goal is to make possible the offering of an introductory college-level oceanography course at hundreds of undergraduate institutions not currently offering an oceanography course-especially those institutions with substantial numbers of students from groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM. Online Ocean Studies models a delivery system and teaching partnership possessing significant potential for other course applications, especially in those disciplines that rely on the Internet to deliver observational data streams.