RCN-UBE Incubator: An online networking hub for collaboration, discovery, and synthesis in quantitative biology curricula

这个RCN-UBE孵化器项目的目的是为生物学家和数学家创建一个中央在线中心，以合作提高学生对定量推理的理解。虽然存在在线资源，如课堂材料库，以帮助教师修改他们的课程，但没有一个中心位置，教师可以聚集在一起进行跨学科教学。QUBES（定量本科生物学教育与综合）将是一个精简的教育资源库，与facebook类似的社交界面直接相连，允许个人以有效的方式讨论不同的教学提交、教学法和哲学。智力优势：QUBES中心将在定量生物学课程中提供协作、发现和综合的在线核心。这一目标将通过与拥有共同目标的多个专业学会（如数学生物学学会、美国数学学会、国家数学生物学与合成研究所）的广泛合作来促进。在资助期间，课程发展需求将通过与组织和本科生命科学教育者的多次会议从社区确定。流行的现有标准（例如CCCS）或新标准的开发将用于所有材料，以允许与其他资源/软件最大限度地共享资源。该网站将成为教师准备和合作设计课程的地方，重点是通过包含社交网络组件最大限度地共享材料和专业知识。与科学协会的联系和参加会议将巩固网站的长期生存。更广泛的影响：QUBES将使用所有开源组件构建，其软件将完全由社区设计和维护。生物学专业的预期学习成果将被创建并塑造成课程标准，并将被网站上的所有学习材料所参考。所有形式的课程材料（例如课堂和实验模块、课堂准备数据集、课堂讲稿、问题集和视频）将被安置在现场的存储库中，或提供到现有的场外存储库的链接中，并通过用户社区提供评论和评级，以帮助发现和验证。QUBES将促进数量生物学教育者社区的创建，他们将受益于访问一个易于使用和导航的基于web的门户网站，从而在课程开发中实现有意义的合作。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。

The purpose of this RCN-UBE incubator project is to create a central online hub for biologists and mathematicians to collaborate to improve students' understanding of quantitative reasoning. While online resources such as repositories of classroom materials exist to help instructors modify their curricula, there is no central location where instructors can come together to work on interdisciplinary teaching. QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis) will be a streamlined educational repository with a direct link to a Facebook-like social interface, which would allow individuals to discuss different teaching submissions, pedagogies, and philosophies in an efficient manner. Intellectual Merit: The QUBES hub will provide an online nucleus of collaboration, discovery and synthesis in quantitative biology curricula. This goal will be facilitated by extensive collaboration with multiple professional societies (e.g. Society for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Society of America, National Institute for Mathematical Biology and Synthesis) who share in this common goal. During the funding period, curricular development needs will be identified from the community via multiple meetings with organizations and undergraduate life science educators. Popular existing standards (e.g. CCCS), or the development of new standards, will be used for all material to allow for maximal sharing of resources with other resources/software. The website will be a place where instructors can go to prepare and collaborate on course design, with emphasis on maximal sharing of material and expertise via inclusion of a social networking component. Association with scientific societies and presence at meetings will solidify the long-term survival of the website.Broader Impacts: QUBES will be constructed using all open source components whose software will be completely community designed and maintained. Expected learning outcomes for biology majors will be created and molded into a curricular standard that will be referenced by all learning materials on the website. All forms of curricular materials (e.g. class and lab modules, classroom ready datasets, lecture notes, question sets, and videos) will be housed on-site in a repository or links provided to existing off-site repositories, with comments and ratings via the user community to help in discovery and validation. QUBES will facilitate the creation of a community of quantitative biology educators who will benefit from having access to an easy-to-use and navigable web-based portal for enabling meaningful collaborations in curriculum development.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/).