Shaping an Infrastructure for the Partnership of Informal Science Education and Higher Education

打造非正式科学教育与高等教育合作的基础设施

• 批准号: 1237463
• 负责人: William David Burns
• 金额: $ 111.21万
• 依托单位: HARRISBURG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237463&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Shaping; Infrastructure; Partnership; Informal; Science

Expanding on the encouraging outcomes of an NSF-funded conference, this three-year project led by the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences, will explore and evaluate ways to support new collaborations between professionals in institutions of higher education and informal STEM education around areas of common interest. The primary goal is to develop the educational infrastructure to grow and efficiently sustain multiple cross-organizational partnership activities at the intersection of learning about science, society and civic engagement around such possible topics as energy, environment, genetics, earth resources, computers and ethics, nanotechnology, etc. The initiative is: 1) creating a joint organizing "secretariat" to provide communications and support through low-cost shared services for at least six partnerships around the country; 2) providing partnership support and technical assistance to seed the six national partnerships, and 3) sharing evaluation and analysis services across all the partnerships. The outcomes of the work pertain to improvements in professional knowledge and practice in higher education and informal science education, as well as the improvement of learning by undergraduates and by the general public.

扩大了由NSF资助的会议的令人鼓舞的成果，由哈里斯堡科学技术大学国家科学与公民参与中心领导的这项为期三年的项目，与国家科学院科什兰科学学院的Koshland科学博物馆合作，将探索和评估在高等教育和知识渊源干教育范围内的专业人士之间的合作方式和评估方式。 主要目标是开发教育基础设施，以在学习有关科学，社会和公民参与的相交的相交中发展和有效维持多个跨组织的伙伴关系活动这个国家； 2）提供合作伙伴支持和技术援助，以播种六个国家合作伙伴关系，3）在所有合作伙伴关系中共享评估和分析服务。 这项工作的结果与改善高等教育和非正式科学教育的专业知识和实践以及本科生和公众的学习改善有关。