RCN-UBE: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences Network (CUREnet)

这个项目将创建一个人和项目的网络，这些人和项目正在创造基于课程的生物学本科研究经验(CURE)，作为帮助学生理解生物学核心概念、发展核心科学能力并成为科学界积极、有贡献的成员的一种手段。该网络将创建一个治愈项目和资源的目录。该网络还将为参与者提供机会，讨论如何记录学生的结果，如学习、对科学的态度和兴趣的变化，以及参与科学界的变化，以及扩大对基于课程的研究活动的参与的机制，以及伦理问题，如谁有权获得和拥有治愈的数据。智力优势：该项目将汇集具有不同专业知识的个人(教师、研究人员、信息技术专家、教师发展/课程专家、教育研究人员)，他们代表不同的机构和不同的治疗项目，数据类型(基因组、表型、生态)。这些个人将通过整个小组和分网络小组的会议以及通过使用社交网络工具来解决上述问题。网络活动将建立机制，寻求大学生和科学学会的意见。广泛的影响：该项目将产生一个信息交换所网站，这将是一个单一的寻找和公布治疗信息的“首选”位置。它还将催生旨在改善治疗方法并扩大其实施的新合作，并将有助于宣传现有的治疗资源，以便全国各地的其他教职员工能够了解在自己的实验室课程中设计此类方法的潜力，但可以避免这样做的一些陷阱。

This project will create a network of people and programs that are creating course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURE) in biology as a means of helping students understand core concepts in biology, develop core scientific competencies, and become active, contributing members of the scientific community. The network will create a catalogue of CURE projects and resources. The network will also provide opportunities for participants to discuss issues such as how to document student outcomes such as learning, changes in attitudes toward and interest in science, and changes in engagement in the scientific community, as well as mechanisms for broadening participation in course-based research activities and ethical issues such as who has access to and ownership of CURE-generated data.Intellectual Merit: The project will assemble individuals with diverse expertise (instructors, researchers, information technology specialists, faculty development / curriculum specialists, education researchers) who represent diverse institutions and varied CURE projects in terms of data type (genomic, phenotypic, ecological). These individuals will address the questions noted above through meetings of the entire group and subnetwork teams as well as through the use of social networking tools. Mechanisms will be built into the network activities to seek input from undergraduates and scientific societies.Broader Impacts: The project will produce a clearinghouse website, which will be a single "go-to" location for finding and publicizing CURE information. It will also spawn new collaborations aimed at improving CUREs and expanding their implementation, and will help publicize existing CURE resources so that other faculty across the country can understand the potential of designing such approaches in their own laboratory courses but can avoid some of the pitfalls in doing so.