Broadening Soil Science Education Through On-line Lessons

通过在线课程扩大土壤科学教育

• 批准号: 0442603
• 负责人: Martha Mamo
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-02-15 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0442603&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Soil; Science; Education; Through

Soil science has traditionally looked to students in agricultural science as its primary audience and failed to demonstrate the relevance of soil science to students from other disciplines. This project is developing a set of interactive web-based lessons on the origins, development, and properties of soils for use by undergraduates. These freely available lessons are portable and can easily fit the instructional objectives of many Geoscience and Environmental science disciplines. The approach is intended to teach fundamental concepts that are critical for students to understand in introductory college-level science courses, while still underpinning the instructional objectives of advanced science courses. The lessons are being developed using case studies or problems in areas such as ecology, geology, geography, and environmental sciences and are directly integrated with the same principles or concept lessons. Application of soil science to case studies in various disciplines will enhance student appreciation for the importance of soil science in their field of study. These technology-enhanced lessons are being evaluated for student learning of soil concepts in various disciplines, as well as for enhanced intellectual engagement, recruitment, and retention of students in the earth sciences. This project is multi-institutional (University of Nebraska, Oregon State University, Colorado State University, Trinity College Pennsylvania) and inter-disciplinary (Soil Science, Geology, Environmental Science, Ecology), and thus, will benefit a broad population of students.

土壤科学传统上将农业科学的学生作为主要受众，未能证明土壤科学与其他学科学生的相关性。该项目正在开发一套关于土壤的起源、发展和特性的交互式网络课程，供本科生使用。这些免费课程易于携带，可以轻松满足许多地球科学和环境科学学科的教学目标。该方法旨在教授学生在大学水平的科学入门课程中理解至关重要的基本概念，同时仍然支持高级科学课程的教学目标。这些课程是利用生态学、地质学、地理学和环境科学等领域的案例研究或问题来制定的，并直接与相同的原理或概念课程相结合。将土壤科学应用于各个学科的案例研究将增强学生对土壤科学在其研究领域的重要性的认识。这些技术增强课程正在接受评估，以帮助学生学习各个学科的土壤概念，以及提高地球科学学生的智力参与、招募和保留。 该项目是多机构（内布拉斯加大学、俄勒冈州立大学、科罗拉多州立大学、宾夕法尼亚三一学院）和跨学科（土壤科学、地质学、环境科学、生态学）的项目，因此将使广大学生受益。