OCEAN - OIL (Online Clearinghouse for Education And Networking - Oil Interdisciplinary Learning

在线教育和网络信息交换中心-石油跨学科学习（OCEAN-OIL）项目正在为STEM教师建立一个在线机制和资源，以便以多种形式创建、共享、评估、改进、适应和/或利用各种资源，以便在“可教时刻”向他们提供有关深水地平线灾难的指导。同时加强学生对近海石油生产的利益、风险和潜在影响及其相关能源、环境、社会和政治复杂性的更广泛考虑的学习。OCEAN-OIL网站正与地球百科全书（www.eoearth.org）无缝整合，后者是一个免费的、同行评审的、可搜索的关于地球、自然环境及其与社会互动的内容集合，由专家学者和教育工作者撰写。OCEAN-OIL计划有三个目标：1)推动开发和分享材料的活动；2)促进这些材料的传播和采用；3)促进对人类、人类需求和地球之间关系的深入思考。作为国家科学与环境委员会、波士顿大学和路易斯安那州立大学之间的合作项目，该项目正在创建ocean - oil作为一个综合性的跨学科网站，其内容为不同水平的专业知识提供多个切入点，特别是STEM教师和本科生，其教学资源侧重于广泛研究社区产生的地球科学、海洋和气候素养方面的“大想法”。共享的资源包括与墨西哥湾深水地平线石油泄漏事件相关的高质量本科教学材料，涉及与泄漏直接相关的内容以及为泄漏事件提供更大背景的潜在问题。一个广泛的专家社区正在开发这个网站。OCEAN-OIL提供在线工具，以提高其对本科教育工作者的效用，并包括教育工作者和学生评估的机制，以向项目提供有关资源效用的反馈。该项目正在研究在波士顿大学和路易斯安那州立大学2010年秋季课程中使用OCEAN-OIL材料的有效性。评估是通过使用数据分析、教师反馈以及在课程中使用OCEAN-OIL材料的教师使用的普通学生评估数据来研究网站的质量、使用和影响。本科教育司（教育和人力资源司）的这个项目由地球科学司和生物司共同资助。

The Online Clearinghouse for Education And Networking - Oil Interdisciplinary Learning (OCEAN-OIL) project is establishing an online mechanism and resource for STEM faculty members to create, share, evaluate, improve, adapt and/or utilize a variety of resources, in many formats, to inform their instruction about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in a "teachable moment," as well as to enhance student learning about broader considerations related to the benefits, risks, and potential impacts of offshore oil production and its associated energy, environmental, social and political complexities. The OCEAN-OIL website is being seamlessly integrated into the Encyclopedia of Earth (www.eoearth.org), which is a free, peer-reviewed, searchable collection of content about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society, written by expert scholars and educators. The OCEAN-OIL project has three goals: 1) to spur activity to develop and share materials, 2) to facilitate dissemination and adoption of these materials, and 3) to promote deep thinking about the relationship between humans, their needs, and the Earth. As a collaboration between the National Council for Science and the Environment, Boston University, and Louisiana State University, the project is creating OCEAN-OIL as a comprehensive, interdisciplinary website with content that has multiple entry points for varying levels of expertise, particularly STEM faculty and undergraduate students, and whose instructional resources focus on 'big ideas' in Earth science, ocean, and climate literacy that have been generated by broad research communities. Resources being shared include high quality undergraduate pedagogic material related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, addressing content directly related to the spill and the underlying issues that provide the larger context to the spill. A wide community of experts is engaged in developing the website. OCEAN-OIL provides online tools to increase its utility to undergraduate educators, and includes a mechanism for educator and student evaluations to provide feedback to the project on the resource's utility. The project is studying the effectiveness of using OCEAN-OIL materials in courses taught in Fall 2010 at Boston University and Louisiana State University. The evaluation is studying the quality, use, and impact of the website through usage data analytics, feedback from faculty, and data from common student assessments employed by faculty who use OCEAN-OIL materials in their courses.This project in the Division of Undergraduate Education (Education and Human Resources Directorate) is being co-funded by the Geosciences Directorate and the Biology Directorate.