I-Corps L: A User-Discovery, Hypothesis-Driven Exploration of Potential Scaling and Sustainability of Innovations in Water Education

该项目的目标是参与假设驱动的客户发现过程，以告知水文和水资源教育领域教育创新的可扩展性和可持续性。HydroViz教育创新是为本科水文和水资源教育开发的一套基于网络的主动学习模块，广泛使用水数据和建模资源。该项目响应了水教育界日益增长的要求，即对水文教育进行广泛的改革，作为在水资源工程和地球科学的理论和实践方面取得重大进展的必要条件。虽然潜在发展的直接最终用户是水资源和水文领域，但I-Corps L的这一努力将对更广泛的用户群体产生影响，他们可以从基于地点的教育中受益，并可以利用地理空间技术、网络资源和科学数据共享。该项目还将有助于解决数字学习和网络教育工作面临的持久挑战，这些挑战往往无法实现完全可扩展和可持续的成果。该项目将产生关于如何扩大和维持以数字学习资源形式呈现的教育创新的知识。根据课堂实施和评估数据以及教师的反馈开发的假设表明，用户需要开发本项目中启动的开发，并且该项目有机会参与由客户发现和假设验证的严格过程指导的扩展工作。一个假设的可扩展性和可持续性的解决方案是建立一个通用的平台，学习模块连接到基于社区的水文数据和模型共享资源，并进行互操作，从而提供一个用户的能力，独立的用户可以开发自己的模块。作为该项目的一部分，设想的解决方案将经过假设验证和客户发现过程。

The objective of this project is to engage in a hypothesis-driven, customer-discovery process to inform the scalability and sustainability of educational innovations in the field of hydrology and water resources education. The HydroViz educational innovation was developed as a set of web-based, active-learning modules for undergraduate hydrology and water resources education with extensive use of water data and modeling resources. The project responds to the increasing calls by the water education communities for a broad reform in hydrologic education as a requisite for making significant advances in the theory and practices of water resources engineering and earth sciences. While the immediate end users of the potential development is in the field of water resources and hydrology, the outcomes of this I-Corps L effort will have an impact on the broader community of users who can benefit from place-based education and who can take advantage of geospatial technologies, web-based resources, and scientific data sharing. The project will also contribute to resolving lasting challenges that confront digital learning and cyber-education efforts that often fail to achieve fully scalable and sustainable outcomes. The project will produce knowledge on how to scale and sustain educational innovations that are presented in the form of digital learning resources. The hypothesis, developed based on classroom implementation and assessment data, as well as feedback from instructors, indicates that there is a user need for developments such as those initiated in this project and that there is an opportunity for the project to engage in a scaling effort that is guided by a rigorous process of customer discovery and hypothesis validation. A hypothesized scalability and sustainability solution is to establish a general platform for the learning modules to connect to and interoperate with community-based hydrologic data and model sharing resources, and thus provide a user capability by which independent users can develop their own modules. The envisioned solution will go through a hypothesis validation and customer discovery process as part of this project.