Transforming STEM Education at Small Rural Colleges: Incorporation of Remote Access NMR to Create an Authentic Laboratory Environment

改变小型农村学院的 STEM 教育：结合远程访问 NMR 创建真实的实验室环境

• 批准号: 1141230
• 负责人: William Shay
• 金额: $ 19.18万
• 依托单位: North Dakota State College of Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1141230&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Transforming; STEM; Education; Small; Rural

This project is introducing an NMR spectrometer to a remote access instrumentation network serving five small, rural colleges in the northern plains. Remote access collaboration experiments and mini-projects are being developed for student teams who will not physically meet each other. Students enrolled in introductory, general and organic chemistry, regardless of their location, directly operate the NMR to analyze their own samples. An online teaching and learning community for the instructors involved in the project is being established to promote additional understanding of strategies to enhance student learning using remote access instrumentation networks. The intellectual merit includes development of new curricular materials and pedagogies to transform how small, remote colleges approach educating students, by providing authentic hands-on learning experiences, instead of relying on simulations and published materials. The broader impacts of the proposal include improved infrastructure for teaching and research at all five campuses through acquisition of the NMR. Multi-layered evaluation is being used to measure the impact on students' (a) content knowledge, laboratory skills and engagement, (b) ability to transfer and integrate knowledge between the laboratory and lecture courses, and (c) professional skills, such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration and professional behaviors. Dissemination of the project's benefits and challenges provides a model for other small colleges to provide hands-on remote access to modern instrumentation.

该项目将NMR光谱仪引入到一个远程访问仪表网络，该网络为北部平原的五个小型农村大学提供服务。 正在为不会在身体上相遇的学生团队开发远程访问协作实验和迷你项目。 参加入门，一般和有机化学的学生，无论其位置如何，都直接操作NMR来分析自己的样本。 正在为参与该项目的讲师提供的在线教学社区，以促进对使用远程访问仪器网络增强学生学习的策略的更多理解。知识分子的优点包括开发新的课程材料和教学法，以通过提供真实的动手学习经验，而不是依靠模拟和出版的材料来改变小学，偏远的大学对教育学生的教育。 该提案的更广泛影响包括通过获得NMR的所有五个校园的教学和研究改进。多层评估被用来衡量对学生的影响（a）内容知识，实验室技能和参与度，（b）能力转移和整合实验室和讲座课程之间的知识，以及（c）等专业技能，例如批判性思维，沟通，协作和专业行为。 传播项目的福利和挑战，为其他小型大学提供了一个模型，以提供现代仪器的动手远程访问。