Multi-platform educational program in innovative methods for the behavioral and s

描述(申请人提供)：行为和社会科学研究的方法正在迅速变化。方法论的发展和越来越多的跨学科思维正在为研究人员创造令人兴奋的新机会，并需要持续的教育努力，以确保研究人员保持与不断发展的科学相适应的尖端设施。这种教育努力需要自身发展和调整，以教授当前和创新的方法，并纳入我们对如何最有效地提供教育内容的理解中的进步。我们建议围绕行为和社会科学的创新方法，开发一个最先进的、可持续的和适应性强的教育平台。拟议的方法创新教育套装(MENTS)项目将提供行为和社会科学方面的创新方法培训，同时利用新技术提供的机会，以创新的方法提供这一材料。总体而言，我们的目标是(1)开发一套为期一周的综合短期课程，旨在围绕行为和社会科学中的关键方法学方法(包括数据可视化、建模/模拟、创新研究设计、适应性数据收集和现代测量问题)，面向生物医学、行为和临床研究人员和从业者，(2)使广大受众不受地理因素的束缚，(3)通过创建和管理一个动态的数字空间，培养对行为和社会科学研究感兴趣的学者群体，其中包括与行为和社会科学研究有关的基本资源和教育材料、智力交流机会和可帮助行为和社会科学研究人员日常工作的新工具。重要的是，我们的目标是利用现有的独特平台-哥伦比亚大学流行病学和人口健康夏季研究所(EPIC)-该平台已经提供了为期一周的面授和数字形式的课程，并在建立Minds计划方面取得了成功的记录，为世界各地的行为和社会科学研究人员提供了一种有效且具有成本效益的教育机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The methods of behavioral and social science research are changing rapidly. Methodologic development and increasing trans-disciplinary thinking is creating exciting new opportunities for researchers and a need for ongoing educational efforts that can ensure researchers maintain cutting-edge facility with the evolving science. Such educational efforts need themselves to evolve and adapt both to teach current and innovative methods and to incorporate advances in our understanding of how to most effectively deliver educational content. We propose to develop a state-of-the-science, sustainable, and adaptable educational platform around innovative methods for the behavioral and social sciences. The proposed Methods INnovation eDucation Suite (MINDS) project will offer training in innovative methods in the behavioral and social sciences while taking advantage of the opportunities afforded by new technologies for innovative approaches to delivering this material. Overall our objectives are to (1) develop a comprehensive set of week-long short courses aimed at biomedical, behavioral, and clinical researchers and practitioners around key methodological approaches in the behavioral and social sciences (including issues of data visualization, modeling/simulation, innovative study design, adaptive data collection, and modern measurement issues), (2) enable a broad audience, untethered by geography, to participate in these focused short-courses through the development of digital versions of the same courses and (3) nurture a community of scholars interested in behavioral and social science research through the creation and curation of a dynamic digital space that includes essential resources and educational materials related to behavioral and social science research, opportunities for intellectual exchange, and novel tools that can help the behavioral and social science researcher in his/her daily work. Importantly, we aim to capitalize on a unique existing platform -the Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute at Columbia (EPIC)- that already offers weeklong courses in both in-person and digital formats and that has a track record of success to build the MINDS program, affording an effective, and cost-efficient approach to deliver educational opportunities to behavioral and social science researchers worldwide.