Inclusive Fieldwork Toolkit - Community resource of technology to enable accessible fieldwork

第1部分野外课程是野外科学学科中教学的重要组成部分。然而，残疾学生往往无法进入关键网站。不能与同伴和教师一起访问实地地点的学生被分配替代作业，这些作业不能提供与实地学生相同水平的基于探究的协作学习。以技术为媒介的协作实地考察方法已被证明是使学生能够参与的有效手段，否则他们将被排除在外。然而，方便远程访问的适当通信技术的成本是许多实地课程教师的一个障碍。建立一套贷款设备将使残疾学生和教师能够更广泛地获得和积极参与实地教学、学习和研究。一个主要成果将是增加实地学科内的社会包容性，这将有助于吸引其他代表性不足的群体来研究地球科学，并提供进一步的机会来促进高等教育和相关学科内的多样性和包容性。第二部分该资助将建立一个包容性的实地考察工具包，使以实地为重点的科学教师能够将经过验证的辅助技术整合到他们的教学中，并为跨机构分享包容性的实地考察实践提供基础，促进更广泛的地球科学社区的多样性和包容性。建立的工具包将支持以下目标：-为包容性现场体验提供设备访问。-建立一个由从事无障碍项目的学生和教师研究人员组成的社区，他们可以生成用例报告，并成为其他机构部署的系统培训师。-通过利用一套已建立和评估的设备再现教学实践，创造新的合作和创新机会。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Part 1Field courses are a critical element of teaching and learning in the field-focused science disciplines. However, key sites are often inaccessible to students with disabilities. Students who cannot access a field location with their peers and instructors are given alternate assignments that do not provide the same level of inquiry-based, collaborative learning that students receive in the field. Technology-mediated approaches to collaborative fieldwork have been shown to be an effective means of enabling participation for students who would otherwise be excluded. However, the cost of appropriate communication technology to facilitate remote access is a barrier for many field course instructors. Establishing a set of loan equipment will enable broader accessibility and active participation in field-based teaching, learning and research for students and faculty with disabilities. A major outcome will be increasing the social inclusion within the field-based disciplines which will help attract other under-represented groups to study the geosciences and provide further opportunities to promote diversity and inclusion within higher education and the associated disciplines.Part 2This grant will establish an inclusive fieldwork toolkit to enable field-focused science instructors to integrate tried-and-tested assistive technology into their teaching and provide a basis for sharing inclusive fieldwork practices across institutions, promoting diversity and inclusion in the broader geoscience community. The established toolkit will support the following goals:- Provide access to equipment for inclusive field experiences.- Establish a community of student and faculty researchers engaged in accessibility-related projects who could then generate use-case reports and become system trainers for deployment at other institutions.- Create new opportunities for collaboration and innovation by reproducing instructional practices utilizing an established and evaluated set of equipment.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.