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

该项目将创建一个网络和项目，以创建基于课程的生物学本科研究经验（CURE），帮助学生理解生物学的核心概念，培养核心科学能力，并成为科学界的活跃、有贡献的成员。该网络将创建CURE项目和资源的目录。该网络还将为参与者提供讨论以下问题的机会：如何记录学生的成果，如学习、对科学的态度和兴趣的变化、参与科学界的变化，以及扩大参与基于课程的研究活动的机制和伦理问题，如谁有权访问和拥有cure生成的数据。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CURE项目，根据数据类型（基因组，表型，生态）。这些人将通过整个小组和子网小组的会议以及通过使用社会网络工具来解决上述问题。将在网络活动中建立机制，以寻求大学生和科学社团的投入。更广泛的影响：该项目将产生一个信息交换中心网站，它将成为查找和发布CURE信息的单一“首选”位置。它还将催生旨在改进CURE和扩大其实施的新合作，并将有助于宣传现有的CURE资源，以便全国各地的其他教师能够了解在他们自己的实验课程中设计这种方法的潜力，同时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.