RAPID: Online Educational Resources on the Science of Vaccines

该项目旨在通过提供关于疫苗开发的科学教育资源来服务于国家利益。 在COVID-19大流行的背景下，学院和大学有一个独特而及时的机会提供有关疫苗如何开发及其工作原理的信息。 该项目将把关于COVID-19疫苗开发的信息整合到视频和配套教材中。 它将向各学院和大学以及广大公众广泛散发这些材料。该项目还将提供关于如何交流所需科学信息的讲习班，以便对疫苗做出明智的决定。视频和研讨会的广泛公众访问将通过以下方式实现：1）YouTube频道，包括视频和辅助材料，3）与国家科学和公民参与中心的项目科学教育促进新公民参与和责任（SENCER），BioQuest/QUBES，美国工程教育协会（ASEE）和夏威夷和太平洋岛屿校园契约（HIPICC）以及4）虚拟研讨会。为了接触到不同的社区，将以西班牙文和英文编制项目材料，项目人员打算执行针对土著（美洲土著人、夏威夷土著人和太平洋岛民）社区的外联战略。项目研讨会将向所有教育工作者开放，可能有数千人参与项目材料。项目评估和研究部分将为理解快速科学教育应对COVID-19大流行的影响做出重要贡献。该项目将创建四个模块工具包：1）构建对科学的理解，2）COVID-19的科学，3）疫苗科学，4）COVID-19科学传播。每个模块工具包将包括3 - 5个教学视频，3 - 5个公共信息视频和支持材料，包括评估，讨论问题和活动。所有材料都将是开源的。传播计划的基础是创新传播理论的变化。 项目合作伙伴将通过在其网站上提供课程材料的链接以及提供在其会议上主办与教材有关的讲习班的机会来传播这些材料。将举办虚拟研讨会以支持采用，并在YouTube频道上发布以供异步观看。将举办讲习班，以接触包括土著社区在内的不同社区。项目评估将包括对项目参与者进行调查，以评估项目是否达到了关于疫苗开发的有效教育的主要目标。将制定和进行事前和事后调查，以确定教育资源的使用是否影响学生对COVID-19疫苗的理解。此外，该项目还将解决以下研究问题：能否利用长期的科学教育工作--SENCER、BioQuest、ASEE--来有效地传播国家COVID-19疫苗教育资源？ 这样的努力能达到西班牙裔，夏威夷原住民和美洲原住民社区，往往无法获得这些信息？为了解决这些问题，将利用评价调查的结果以及与项目参与者的访谈和重点小组。将对土著社区的项目推广情况进行重点研究。 这个RAPID奖是由本科教育部的IUSE计划：教育和人力资源理事会。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的支持。

This project aims to serve the national interest by providing science-based educational resources on the development of vaccines. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities have a unique and timely opportunity to provide information about how vaccines are developed and how they work. This project will integrate information about the development of a COVID-19 vaccine into videos and supporting teaching materials. It will disseminate these materials widely to colleges and universities, as well as to the public at large. The project will also provide workshops about how to communicate the scientific information neede to make informed decisions about the vaccine. Broad public access to the videos and workshops will be achieved through 1) a YouTube channel including videos and supporting material, 3) partnerships with National Center for Science and Civic Engagement’s project Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Responsibilities (SENCER), BioQuest/QUBES, American Association of Engineering Education (ASEE), and Hawaii and Pacific Islands Campus Compact (HIPICC) and 4) virtual workshops. To reach diverse communities, project materials will be produced in both Spanish and English and project personnel intend to implement outreach strategies for Indigenous (Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Native Pacific Islander) communities. Project workshops will be open to all educators with potentially thousands of individuals engaging with project materials. The project evaluation and research components will make important contributions to understanding the impact of a rapid science education response to the COVID-19 pandemic.The project will create four module toolkits: 1) Framing an Understanding of Science, 2) The Science of COVID-19, 3) Vaccine Science, and 4) COVID-19 Science Communication. Each module toolkit will consist of 3-5 instructional videos, 3-5 public informational videos, and supporting materials including assessments, discussion questions, and activities. All materials will be open source. The dissemination plan is grounded in the Diffusion of Innovation theory of change. The project partners will disseminate the materials by providing links to the course materials on their websites and by providing opportunities to host workshops related to the educational materials at their meetings. Virtual workshops will be held to support adoption and posted on the YouTube Channel for asynchronous viewing. Workshops will be conducted to reach diverse communities including Indigenous communities. The project evaluation will involve surveying project participants to evaluate if the project has met its primary goal of effective education about vaccine development. Pre- and post- surveys will be developed and conducted to determine if the use of the educational resources impacted students’ understanding of COVID-19 vaccines. In addition, the project will address the following research questions: Can long-standing science education efforts – SENCER, BioQuest, ASEE - be leveraged to effectively disseminate national COVID-19 vaccine educational resources? Can such an effort reach Hispanic, Native Hawaiian, and Native American communities that often lack access to this information? To address these questions, the results of the evaluation surveys as well as interviews and focus groups with project participants will be used. A focused study of project outreach in Indigenous communities will be conducted. This RAPID award is made by the IUSE program in the Division of Undergraduate Education: Education and Human Resources Directorate.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.