Conference: Building HSI Learning Resilience in the Face of Crisis

在改善本科STEM教育：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划）的支持下，本次会议旨在了解疫情的影响及其对HSI学生学习的持续影响。随着2020年3月COVID-19大流行在所有50个州得到确认，突然采取了完全远程教学和大学校园关闭的举措，给包括西班牙裔服务机构在内的所有机构带来了许多不确定性。为了解决这个问题，提议的会议将有100-150名与会者参加为期3天的虚拟会议。所有视频和相关资料将在会议结束后存入会议网页，供公众查阅。在当前的环境中，体验式、基于地点的、协作式和以社区为中心的学习实践的概念受到了深刻的挑战。此外，预计这些挑战将对服务不足的学生群体产生不成比例的巨大影响，这些学生群体从这些创新的学习方法中获益最多（通常被认为是第一代、佩尔获得者、拉丁裔、非裔美国人和美洲原住民）。因此，迫切需要记录正在发生的情况，并制定新的解决方案以改善结果。本次会议将记录对当前实践的理解，以创建弹性，重点是探索新的数字工具，以加强远程学习。该项目将主要侧重于(a)减少数字鸿沟；(b)远程实验室、设计项目和实习；(c)利用远程学习工具加强指导；(d)数字化学习：HSI教师、学生和学生家庭在说什么？(e)利用数据科学为下一代学习软件提供信息；(f)维持现状？是一个论坛，旨在了解恒生指数社区将如何计划适应会议后讨论的数字工具。本次会议还将使与会者能够：1)在分组会议期间与其他机构合作；(2)与其他hsi一起在桌面演练中完成场景；(3)获得事件的录音，以加强所学知识，并查看分组会议；(4)建立一个由新的数字工具驱动的社区，为未来的会议、专题讨论会、网络研讨会和研讨会开发新的工具和主要想法。使用网络研讨会工具的能力将允许对会议主题感兴趣的更广泛的受众同步访问会议。本次会议将包括管理人员、教师、学生和学生家庭，以更好地传播数字学习工具的理念。参加这次会议有可能提高hsi在现在和未来的恢复能力，因为教师、学生和家庭将从会议期间获得的共享知识中获得更多的知识。HSI计划旨在加强HSI的本科STEM教育和能力建设。HSI计划支持的项目也将产生关于如何实现这些目标的新知识。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。

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this conference aims to understand the effects of the pandemic and its continuing impact on HSI students’ learning. As the COVID-19 pandemic became confirmed in all 50 states in March 2020, there was an abrupt move to fully distance learning instruction and closing of college campuses, leading to many uncertainties for all institutions, including Hispanic-Serving Institutions. To combat this, the proposed conference will bring 100-150 participants into a 3-day virtual conference. All video and related materials for sharing will be archived in the conference web page post meeting for public access. In the current environment, the notions of experiential, place-based, collaborative, and community centered learning practices have been deeply challenged. Furthermore, these challenges are predicted to have a disproportionately large impact on underserved student populations who benefit the most from these innovative learning approaches (generally identified as first generation, Pell recipient, Latinx, African American, and Native American). As such, there is an urgent need to document what is happening and develop new solutions to improve outcomes. This conference will document the understanding of current practices to create resiliency with an emphasis on exploring new digital tools to enhance distance learning. This project will primarily focus on (a) Mitigating the Digital Divide; (b) Lab, Design Projects, and Internships from a Distance; (c) Enhancing Mentoring using Distance learning Tools; (d) Digital Learning: What are HSI Faculty, Students, and Families of Students Saying?; (e) Use of Data Science to Inform Nextgen Learning Software; and (f) Quo vadis?, a forum to understand how the HSI community will plan to adapt digital tools discussed post conference. This conference will also enable participants to: 1) collaborate with other institutions during breakout sessions; (2) work through scenarios in tabletop drills with other HSIs; (3) gain access to recordings of the event to reinforce what was learned and view breakout sessions; and (4) build a community powered by new digital tools to develop new tools and prime ideas for future conferences, symposia, webinars, and workshops. Capacity using webinar tools will allow synchronous access to the conference to a wider audience interested in the conference topic. This conference will include administrators, faculty, students, and families of students to better disseminate ideas of digital learning tools. Attending this conference has the potential to improve the ability of HSIs to be resilient and to bounce-back now and in the future as faculty, students, and family will be more knowledgeable from shared knowledge acquired during the conference. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.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.