Developing online teaching tools for field ecology and data science through an EREN-NEON partnership

这个奖项给俄亥俄州卫斯理大学促进了生态研究教育网络（EREN）正在进行的和新的项目适应在线学习模块。这些模块将把学生和教师在当地产生的数据与氖数据结合起来，为学习经验奠定基础。将在不同地点提供实地生态研究经验，减轻COVID-19疫情对本科教育的严重影响，特别是生态实地研究经验。将广泛传播这些单元，以增加其可获得性、使用和影响，包括培养学生在数据管理和分析方面的技能和能力。该项目还提出了一项战略，通过EREN和氖建立的关系，与早期职业教师和来自代表性不足群体的教师进行接触，并得到广泛分布的支持，以增加模块的使用。该奖项利用了EREN与本科院校建立的关系，这些院校是为本科生的STEM职业做准备的主要渠道。因此，培训单元将有助于培养下一代研究科学家，促进知识基础的发展以及成功所需的技术和分析技能。该项目利用了通过EREN开发的网络和合作，并通过与氖科学家的合作得到加强。EREN的经验，使合作领域生态项目，分布在多个地点，主要针对本科院校是补充氖的高质量，标准化的数据，从81个现场在美国各地。EREN和氖之间的这种伙伴关系将使氖数据驱动的新型合作研究项目的开发成为可能。将通过广泛分发、在网络研讨会培训课程中使用以及在EREN和氖网站上发布书面材料来加强这些模块的影响。计划加强与未来的互动，面对面的研讨会将有助于巩固和维持合作。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This award to Ohio Wesleyan University facilitates adaptation of ongoing and new projects by the Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN) into online learning modules. The modules will integrate data generated locally by students and instructors with NEON data, providing the foundation for the learning experiences. Field-based ecological research experiences across diverse locations will be enabled, mitigating the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on undergraduate education, specifically ecological field research experiences. The modules will be widely disseminated to increase their accessibility, use and impacts, including building students’ skills and competencies in data management and analysis. The project also presents a strategy to engage with early career faculty and faculty from underrepresented groups through the relationships that both EREN and NEON have built, supported by the wide distribution to increase use of the modules.The award leverages the relationship that EREN has developed with undergraduate institutions that serve as primary conduits for preparing undergraduate students for STEM careers. Thus, the training modules will facilitate the preparation of the next generation of research scientist, promoting the development of the intellectual foundation, and the technical and analytical skills needed for success. The project takes advantage of the networks and collaborations developed through EREN and is augmented through partnering with NEON scientists. EREN’s experience enabling collaborative field ecology projects, distributed across multiple sites and targeting mostly undergraduate institutions is complemented by NEON’s high-quality, standardized data from 81 field sites across the United States. This partnership between EREN and NEON will enable the development of novel collaborative research projects driven by NEON data. The impact of the modules will be enhanced through wide distribution, use in webinar training sessions, and the publishing of written materials on the EREN and NEON websites. Plans to strengthen the interactions with future, in-person workshops will help to consolidate and sustain the collaborations.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.