The Inquiry-Based Learning Regional Communities Project

在NSF改善本科STEM教育计划：教育和人力资源（IUSE：EHR）的支持下，该探索与设计项目旨在通过发展区域社区来支持数学探究式学习（IBL），从而为国家利益服务。 它还旨在招募和帮助来自不同机构的新教师在本科数学课程中实施IBL。该项目将汇集来自四个区域IBL社区的教师代表：马里兰-DC-弗吉尼亚IBL联盟，密歇根IBL联盟，中西部区域IBL社区和新英格兰IBL数学联盟。 这些教师代表将共同努力，调查IBL从业者的区域社区的潜力，以支持教师采用，维持和促进IBL在本科数学教育中的使用。这种IBL社区模式将提供持续的支持，教师需要在课堂上成功地采用和维持IBL战略。此外，区域IBL社区有可能通过在不同的IBL从业者群体之间创造协同效应来广泛影响数学教育，这些IBL从业者将反过来在每个地区的其他教师，管理人员，政策制定者和资助者中获得IBL的支持。该项目的总体目标是提供有针对性的支持，以促进项目团队中四个区域IBL社区的发展，并调查这些社区在每个区域的影响。 期望的是，该项目的调查将阐明哪些社区建设策略是最有效的支持教师采用，维持和促进IBL在本科数学教育中的使用。为了支持这一目标，项目小组将与四个区域的领导人合作，以实现以下目标：1）建立和协调IBL社区网络; 2）计划和实施区域IBL社区讲习班; 3）促进区域IBL社区同行合作活动的规划和实施; 4）扩大参与区域IBL社区之间的教师从在STEM代表性不足的群体，以及从在国家IBL社区代表性不足的机构类型之间的教师; 5）调查区域IBL社区为教师提供采用、维持和促进IBL所需的专业支持的能力。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过机构和社区转型的轨道，该计划支持的努力，以改变和改善高等教育机构和学科社区的STEM教育.这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估支持.

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this Exploration and Design project aims to serve the national interest by developing regional communities to support inquiry-based learning (IBL) in mathematics. It also aims to recruit and help new faculty from diverse institutions implement IBL in undergraduate mathematics courses. The project will bring together faculty representatives from four regional IBL communities: the Maryland-DC-Virginia IBL Consortium, Michigan IBL Consortium, Midwest Regional IBL Community, and the New England IBL in Mathematics Consortium. These faculty representatives will work together to investigate the potential for regional communities of IBL practitioners to support faculty in adopting, sustaining, and promoting the use of IBL in undergraduate mathematics education. This IBL Communities model will provide the ongoing support that instructors need to successfully adopt and sustain IBL strategies in the classroom. Furthermore, regional IBL communities have the potential to broadly impact mathematics education by creating synergy among diverse groups of IBL practitioners who will in turn garner support for IBL among other faculty, administrators, policy makers, and funders across each region. The overarching goal of the project is to provide targeted support to nurture the growth of the four regional IBL communities represented on the project team and to investigate the impact of these communities in each region. The expectation is that the project's investigations will elucidate which community-building strategies are most effective in supporting faculty to adopt, sustain, and promote the use of IBL in undergraduate mathematics education. In support of this goal, the project team will collaborate with leaders in each of the four regions to pursue the following objectives: 1) establish and coordinate a Network of IBL Communities; 2) plan and implement regional IBL Communities workshops; 3) facilitate the planning and implementation of peer-collaboration activities in the regional IBL communities; 4) broaden participation in the regional IBL communities among faculty from groups that are underrepresented in STEM as well as among faculty from institution types that are underrepresented in the national IBL community; and 5) investigate the ability of regional IBL communities to provide faculty with the professional support they need to adopt, sustain, and promote IBL. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Institutional and Community Transformation track, the program supports efforts to transform and improve STEM education across institutions of higher education and disciplinary communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.