Distance Learning through Self-Induced Learning Infrastructure (SELIN) Implemented by Arctic Anthropologists

这个EAGER（早期概念探索性研究资助）奖项支持一个探索性项目，该项目研究人类学研究、人与动物交流等发展中的领域，并测试一个新的电子学习平台，以促进大学社会科学的研究培训。该项目将新的远程学习软件“自主学习基础设施”（SELIN）与旨在激发大学生科学研究热情的材料结合起来。阿拉斯加州的几个项目目前正在利用基于社区的传统知识作为科学教育的起点。一个很好的例子是现有的一门课程，使用狗拉雪橇向来自阿拉斯加农村社区的学生教授物理。位于阿拉斯加的SELIN项目团队将通过调查遛狗者和他们的狗之间的关系来调查人类与动物互动的社会科学研究的新领域，从而增加这些努力。这种关系将被记录下来，这些数据将用于创建一门课程，向大学生教授社会科学概念和研究方法。SELIN是瑞士neuch<e:1>大学开发的新的电子学习平台，适用于各种观察科学，包括生物学、兽医学、社会学、语言学和儿童发展。SELIN远程英语课程的可用性将使更广泛的受众可以使用该平台。这项研究的结果和数据（将向其他研究人员提供，未经编辑）关于推动狗驱赶的文化和经济因素，将对兽医和参与北极资源管理的人有益。事实上，该课程是异步的，这意味着它可以向那些接触科学家和科学教育机会有限的社区提供科学，其中包括农村和北极土著社区，他们对这一主题特别感兴趣。人类和动物交流课程的研究结果为那些参与实际应用的人提供了见解，例如训练和协调与动物物种的活动，以进行搜索和救援，执法，以及潜在的帮助残疾人的服务性动物。

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award supports an exploratory project that investigates a developing field of anthropological research, human-animal communication, and tests a new e-learning platform for facilitating research training in the social sciences at the university level. The project pairs new distance learning software, Self-Induced Learning Infrastructure (SELIN), with materials designed to generate enthusiasm among college students for science research. Several programs in Alaska are currently using community based traditional knowledge as a launching point for science education. A good example is an existing lesson that uses dog sleds to teach physics to students from rural Alaskan communities. The Alaska based SELIN project team will add to these efforts by investigating a new area of social science research on human-animal interactions by investigating the relationships between dog mushers and their dogs. This relationship will be documented and the data used to create a course that teaches social science concepts and research methods to college students. SELIN, the new e-learning platform developed at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, lends itself to a variety of observational sciences including biology, veterinary medicine, sociology, linguistics, and child development. The availability of SELIN distance courses in English will make the platform accessible to a wider audience. The findings and data that come from this research (which will be made available, unedited, to other researchers) about the cultural and economic factors that drive dog mushing will be beneficial to veterinarians and those involved in resource management in the Arctic. The fact that the course is asynchronous means it can deliver science to communities where there is limited access to scientists and science education, among them rural and Indigenous Arctic communities for whom the subject matter is of particular interest. The findings from the research used to develop the course on human and animal communication offer insights for those involved in practical applications such as training and coordinating activities with animal species for search and rescue, law enforcement, and potentially service animals who assist the disabled.