RCN-UBE: ImmunoReach - An interdisciplinary community of practice to promote immune literacy.

这个项目将扩大免疫研究网络，以开发和测试大学生物课程中免疫学教学的新工具。免疫学术语和概念很复杂，每年都有新的发现。这可能会阻碍人们学习这个重要的主题，并使教师很难保持对该主题的最新了解。这个项目将开发的教案将使免疫学的概念更容易理解，并帮助教师在所有级别的课程中轻松教授免疫学。免疫教育的这项工作将有助于提高生物学教育的质量，并支持公众了解重要的社会问题，如抗击传染病、接种疫苗和气候变化的影响。免疫教育是一个跨学科的实践社区(COP)，旨在培养免疫素养，并增加传统免疫学课堂以外的免疫学教育的机会。这一缔约方会议将确定各学科之间的共同语言，与更广泛的社区讨论和分享课程挑战和解决办法。为了实现这一目标，我们将着眼于本科生物学教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁报告和科学素养基准(分别于2011年和1993年)中描述的关键概念和能力。免疫教育网络将通过使用循证教学实践，将致力于促进免疫扫盲目标的教育工作者聚集在一起。该网络将开发整合免疫学相关跨学科学习成果的教学资源，例如，那些与微生物学、遗传学、生态学、进化论、生理学和化学交叉的成果。经验较少的免疫学教育者，代表不同的机构和学科专业知识，将与有经验的免疫学教育者配对，基于落后的设计方法和积极的学习策略，开发、实施和评估这些跨学科教学资源。在该项目结束时产生的产品将通过ImmunoReach的Qube中心站点、虚拟研讨会、会议演示、期刊出版物和其他外展活动与网络参与者和更广泛的社区共享。该网络将使教育工作者能够积极影响不同的学生群体，最终目的是培养免疫素养。该项目由生物科学局生物基础设施司和STEM教育局本科生教育司共同资助，作为他们应对《本科生物学教育的愿景与变革：行动呼吁》中提出的挑战的努力的一部分(http://visionandchange/finalreport/).This奖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智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will expand the ImmunoReach network to develop and test new tools for teaching immunology in college biology courses. Immunological terms and concepts are complicated and new discoveries are made every year. This can discourage people from learning about this important topic and makes it difficult for instructors to keep current in the subject. The lesson plans that will be developed in this project will make immunology concepts easier to understand and help teachers feel comfortable teaching immunology across all levels of courses. This work by ImmunoReach will help improve the quality of biology education and support public understanding of important societal issues such as combatting infectious disease, vaccination, and impacts of climate change.ImmunoReach is an interdisciplinary Community of Practice (CoP) that aims to foster immune literacy and increase access to immunology education beyond traditional immunology-specific classrooms. This CoP will identify a common language between disciplines to discuss and share curricular challenges and solutions with the broader community. To accomplish this, we will look towards the key concepts and competencies described in The Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action report, and Benchmarks for Science Literacy (AAAS, 2011 and 1993, respectively). The ImmunoReach network will bring together educators who are committed to the goals of fostering immune literacy, through the use of evidence-based pedagogical practices. The network will develop teaching resources that integrate immunology-related interdisciplinary learning outcomes, for example, those intersecting with microbiology, genetics, ecology, evolution, physiology and chemistry. Less experienced educators of immunology, representing diverse institutional and disciplinary expertise, will be paired with experienced immunology educators for developing, implementing, and assessing these interdisciplinary teaching resources, based on a backward design approach and active learning strategies. The products generated at the end of this project will be shared with the network participants and the broader community through ImmunoReach’s QUBES hub site, virtual symposiums, conference presentations, journal publications, and other outreach activities. The network will empower educators to positively impact diverse student populations with the ultimate aim to foster immune literacy. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure and the Directorate for STEM Education, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).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.