Creating a Learning Community for Solutions to Climate Change

气候变化教育为响应气候变化教育计划，美国国家科学与环境委员会的环境主任和主任委员会（CEDD）正在创建一个全国性的网络学习社区，名为CAMEL（气候、适应和减缓电子学习）。CAMEL聘请科学、政策和决策、教育和评估方面的专家，制作一个虚拟的课程资源工具箱，用于教授气候变化的原因、后果和解决方案。随着关于气候变化的讨论从这种变化是否正在发生转向应对持续影响的挑战，CAMEL着眼于未来劳动力和一般公民的需求。该项目承认气候变化的跨学科性质，并向教育工作者提出挑战，要求他们根据现有的最佳研究和适当的教学方法来制定课程内容，使学生能够解决复杂的问题。具体目标是：-协助美国各地高等教育机构的教师创建、生成、测试和共享资源，不仅教授学生如何诊断气候变化问题，而且通过提出气候变化的多/跨学科治疗方法来确定和实施解决方案；-确保编制和分享的材料以现有的最佳科学资料为基础，并遵循最适当的教育做法；-通过面对面和在线交流，建立一个由从事气候变化原因、后果和解决方案教学的研究人员、教育工作者和学生组成的社区；-发展网络基础设施，支持和促进材料和社区的创建；评估利用网络媒体成功建设社区的决定因素。为了发展和传播实现这些目标的创新本科教育，CAMEL的实施策略有五个相互关联的组成部分：内容开发、教师发展、社区建设、网络基础设施和项目评估。

Climate Change Education In response to the Climate Change Education program the National Council for Science and the Environment's Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD) is creating a nationwide cyber-enabled learning community called CAMEL (Climate, Adaptation, and Mitigation e-Learning). CAMEL engages experts in science, policy and decision-making, education, and assessment in the production of a virtual toolbox of curricular resources designed for teaching climate changes causes, consequences, and solutions. CAMEL looks to the needs of the future workforce and citizenry in general as discourse on climate change has shifted from whether such change is occurring to the challenges of dealing with the ongoing impacts. This project acknowledges the interdisciplinary nature of climate change and challenges educators to curricular content based on the best available research and on the appropriate pedagogical methods for enabling students to tackle complex problems. Specific objectives are: - To assist faculty at institutions of higher education across the United States as they create, generate, test, and share resources for teaching students not only how to diagnose climate change problems, but also to identify and effect solutions by presenting a multi/interdisciplinary treatment of climate change; - To ensure that materials developed and shared are founded on the best available scientific information and follow the most appropriate educational practices; - To build a community of researchers, educators, and students engaged in teaching about climate change causes, consequences and solutions through face-to-face and online networking; - To develop cyberinfrastructure that will support and promote the creation of materials and community; and - To evaluate the determinants of successful community building using cybermedia. In order to develop and disseminate innovative undergraduate education that addresses these objectives, CAMEL's implementation strategy has five interrelated components: content development, faculty development, community-building, cyberinfrastructure, and program evaluation.