Extending and enhancing Understanding Evolution for the undergraduate community

生物科学(61)。该项目是加州大学古生物学博物馆、美国生物科学研究所和国家进化合成中心(NESCent)的合作项目，正在扩大非常成功的理解进化K-12网站(UE)，目的是改善大学一级的进化教育。UE的本科生图书馆是一个免费访问的在线资源，目标是大学生物学入门教师，帮助他们以教学合理的方式澄清进化概念，将进化论融入他们的教学过程，在与进化论相关的概念上花费更多的课堂时间，并将进化论与当前的研究和学生日常生活中重要的问题联系起来。网站内置的功能也鼓励这些教师之间的社区建设。为了支持这些目标，图书馆提供了各种各样的资源，包括网络研讨会、讨论、教材、专业发展工具等等。这套全面的材料反映了这样一种认识，即一些教师只准备对他们的教学方法进行微小的修改，而另一些教师则会接受全面的修改。通过促进小的改进和提供基于社区的支持系统，该网站旨在推动教师对他们的进化教学进行更根本的转变。一个评估部分正在处理项目实现其目标的程度，为教师专业发展的在线社区建设工具的设计提供信息，并为其他努力提供信息，以鼓励将进化论整合到整个生物教学中(例如，整个课程工作组的NESCent的进化论)。该项目的免费访问的在线环境通过消除参与的地理和经济障碍，为接触到来自农村和市中心社区学院、研究型大学和私人机构的不同学生和教师群体提供了一种工具。

Biological Sciences (61). This project, a collaboration between the University of California Museum of Paleontology, American Institute of Biological Sciences and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), is expanding the highly successful Understanding Evolution K-12 website (UE) with the aim of improving evolution education at the college level. UE's Undergraduate Library is a freely accessible online resource that targets college instructors of introductory biology to help them clarify evolutionary concepts in pedagogically sound ways, integrate evolution throughout their teaching, spend more class time on evolution-related concepts, and relate evolution to current research and issues that matter in students' everyday lives. Functionalities built into the site also encourage community building among these instructors. To support these goals, the Library is offering a wide variety of resources, including webinars, discussions, teaching materials, professional development tools, and much more. This comprehensive set of materials reflects the recognition that some instructors are prepared to make only small modifications to their pedagogy, and others will embrace sweeping ones. By facilitating small improvements and providing a community-based support system, the site aims to move instructors towards more fundamental transformations of their evolution instruction. An evaluation component is addressing the extent to which the project is meeting its goals, informing the design of online community-building tools for teacher professional development, and informing other efforts to encourage the integration of evolution throughout biology instruction (e.g., NESCent's Evolution Across the Curriculum working group). The project's freely-accessible, online environment provides a vehicle for reaching a diverse group of students and instructors - from rural and inner city community colleges, research universities, and private institutions - by removing geographic and economic barriers to participation.