Brownfield Action: Expansion and Evaluation of a Proven Inquiry-Based Approach to Teaching and Learning Environmental Science

跨学科（99）布朗菲尔德行动（BA）是一个基于网络的，交互式的，三维数字空间和学习模拟，学生形成岩土工程咨询公司和合作，探索和解决环境取证问题。NSF-CCLI-概念验证资助允许在康涅狄格学院的高级水文课程中成功实施和评估学士学位改编模块的试点测试，并通过在行业标准技术平台上开发原型，证明学士学位可以完全模块化并分发给广泛的潜在用户。巴纳德学院与哥伦比亚新媒体教学中心合作，目前正在1）开发一个完全模块化的平台，对软件进行重写和重新编程，并创建强大的服务器功能; 2）在四个不同的站点测试完全模块化的版本; 3）对这些测试进行独立的专业评估，重点关注学生的学习;（4）准备模块化所需的所有辅助材料、考点和教师培训讲习班。在第二阶段项目完成后，BA将准备向学院、大学、高中、政府和企业用户进行商业推广、传播和分发。 BA的具有公民意识的探究式学习方法成功地将数字空间的高级使用与棕地的环境，经济和公民重要性以及环境的净化相结合。因此，BA正在为教学和学习以及数字技术在课堂上的应用做出贡献。在巴纳德学院使用了六年，BA已经通过一系列独立的专业评估确立了自己的地位，作为一个非常成功的环境科学入门教学模式。这种模式，其中跨学科的科学和社会信息被整合在建构主义学习环境中，提高了学生的学习，并有能力在全国范围内改变环境科学的教学。BA的进一步扩展和实施将对环境科学的公众知识产生广泛的影响，通过将这些方法，已知提高对科学信息的理解（特别是在非科学专业，妇女和其他传统上在科学领域代表性不足的群体中），全国范围内的教师。

Interdisciplinary (99)Brownfield Action (BA) is a web-based, interactive, three-dimensional digital space and learning simulation in which students form geotechnical consulting companies and work collaboratively to explore and solve problems in environmental forensics. A NSF-CCLI-Proof of Concept grant allowed successful implementation and evaluation of a pilot test of an adapted module of BA in an upper level hydrology course at Connecticut College and, by developing a prototype on an industry-standard technology platform, proves that BA can be completely modularized and distributed to a broad spectrum of potential users. Barnard College in conjunction with the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning is now 1) developing a fully-modularized platform, rewriting and reprogramming the software, and creating robust server capabilities; 2) testing the fully-modularized version at four different sites; 3) providing independent professional evaluation of these tests with a focus on student learning; and, 4) preparing of all the supporting materials required for the modularization, the test sites, and the teacher training workshops. After completion of this Phase 2 project, BA will be ready for commercial promotion, dissemination, and distribution to colleges, universities, high schools, government, and corporate users. BA's civic-minded, inquiry-based learning approach successfully combines the advanced use of digital space with the environmental, economic, and civic importance of brownfields and the toxification of the environment. As such, BA is making contributions to both teaching and learning as well as to the application of digital technology in the classroom. Used for six years at Barnard College, BA has established itself, through a series of independent professional evaluations, as a highly successful pedagogical model for teaching introductory environmental science. This model, where interdisciplinary scientific and social information is integrated within a constructivist learning environment, improves student learning and has the ability to transform the teaching of environmental science throughout the country. Further expansion and implementation of BA will have a broad impact on public knowledge of environmental science by bringing these methods, known to enhance the understanding of scientific information (especially among non-science majors, women, and other groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences), to instructors nationwide.