RCN-UBE Incubator: Growing a Physiology Education Community of Practice

这个孵化器项目正在建立生理学教育实践社区（PECOP），主要以本科教育为中心，但包括多个教学水平（K-12，研究生/专业），包括国际和新手教育工作者。PECOP还促进了为代表性不足的学生服务的机构的教师的积极参与。美国生理学会（APS）已经开发了支持PECOP的关键组成部分，包括一个带有建立和支持教学和学习社区工具的国家科学数字图书馆（APS教学资源档案，www.apsarchive.org），促进在线社区参与的在线教师发展，以及对一年两次的教学和学习会议的新支持，该会议将为来自所有类型机构的教师提供研讨会和会议。会议作为建立PECOP结构和招募参与者的论坛，鼓励教育者进行互动，共享资源，并在持续的基础上进行合作。它还为生理学教育者提供了一个学习如何使用教学与学习（SOTL）方法来改进教学的机会，并为新生理学家提供了教学专业技能培训。这个RCN-UBE项目正在使用存档社区工具和教学会议来组织和启动PECOP，这是一个为生理学教学提供资源、培训、指导和社区福利的支持社区。在组织阶段，该项目正在招募思想领袖，他们将在会议上和网上指导关于课程开发、以学生为中心的学习、评估、有效的本科生研究经验和SOTL方法等关键主题的讨论。最后，该项目正在通过区域和国家生理学教育者会议提供支持，以促进参与PECOP。这一倡议的智力价值是创造一个活跃的实践社区（COP），这将增加生理学的整体影响和有效性，这是世界上最常见的本科课程主题之一。PECOP将鼓励和支持最佳教学实践，以证据为基础的教学，并通过培训，资源共享和现场和在线指导，为新的教育工作者做好准备，与不同的学生一起工作。PECOP更广泛的影响在于它吸引了来自不同机构的生理学家，支持新的和有经验的教育者之间的合作，分享教育研究和最佳实践，以及它提供了跨教育水平（本科-研究生-专业）的重要交流论坛。该项目由生物科学理事会和本科教育司教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，以支持应对《本科教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/所提出的挑战。

This incubator project is establishing the Physiology Educators Community of Practice (PECOP) which centers primarily on undergraduate education, but encompasses multiple teaching levels (K-12, grad/professional), including international and novice educators. PECOP also promotes strong participation by faculty at institutions serving underrepresented students. The American Physiological Society (APS) has developed key components to support the PECOP, including a National Science Digital Library with tools to build and support teaching and learning communities (APS Archive of Teaching Resources, www.apsarchive.org), online faculty development to promote online community involvement, and new support for a biannual conference on teaching and learning which will offer workshops and sessions for faculty from all types of institutions. The conference serves as a forum to build the PECOP structure and recruit participants, encouraging educators to interact, share resources, and collaborate on an ongoing basis. It also provides an opportunity for physiology educators to learn how to use scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) methodologies to improve their teaching and offers teaching professional skills training for new physiologists. This RCN-UBE project is using Archive community tools and the teaching conference to organize and launch PECOP, a support community that provides resources, training, mentoring, and community benefits for the teaching of physiology. In the organizational stages, the project is recruiting Thought Leaders who will guide discussions at the conference and online on key topics such as curriculum development, student-centered learning, assessment, effective undergraduate research experiences, and SOTL methods. Finally, the project is providing support to promote participation in PECOP via regional and national meetings of physiology educators.The Intellectual Merit of this initiative is the creation of an active community of practice (COP) that will increase the overall impact and effectiveness of physiology, which is among the most common undergraduate course topics worldwide. PECOP will encourage and support best teaching practices, evidence-based teaching and preparation of new educators to work with diverse students through training, resource sharing, and mentoring in live and online settings.Broader Impacts of PECOP lie in its engagement of physiologists from diverse institutions, the support for collaborations among new and experienced educators to share educational research and best practices, and the important communication forum it provides across educational levels (undergrad-grad-professional). This project is funded jointly by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate of Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education in support of efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education: A Call to Action http://visionandchange.org/finalreport/.