RCN-UBE: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences Network (CUREnet)

RCN-UBE：基于课程的本科生研究经验网络（CUREnet）

• 批准号: 1450729
• 负责人: Erin Dolan
• 金额: $ 34.83万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-02 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1450729&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Course; based; Undergraduate

This project will create a network of people and programs that are creating course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURE) in biology as a means of helping students understand core concepts in biology, develop core scientific competencies, and become active, contributing members of the scientific community. The network will create a catalogue of CURE projects and resources. The network will also provide opportunities for participants to discuss issues such as how to document student outcomes such as learning, changes in attitudes toward and interest in science, and changes in engagement in the scientific community, as well as mechanisms for broadening participation in course-based research activities and ethical issues such as who has access to and ownership of CURE-generated data.Intellectual Merit: The project will assemble individuals with diverse expertise (instructors, researchers, information technology specialists, faculty development / curriculum specialists, education researchers) who represent diverse institutions and varied CURE projects in terms of data type (genomic, phenotypic, ecological). These individuals will address the questions noted above through meetings of the entire group and subnetwork teams as well as through the use of social networking tools. Mechanisms will be built into the network activities to seek input from undergraduates and scientific societies.Broader Impacts: The project will produce a clearinghouse website, which will be a single "go-to" location for finding and publicizing CURE information. It will also spawn new collaborations aimed at improving CUREs and expanding their implementation, and will help publicize existing CURE resources so that other faculty across the country can understand the potential of designing such approaches in their own laboratory courses but can avoid some of the pitfalls in doing so.

该项目将创建一个人员和项目网络，这些人员和项目正在创建基于课程的生物学本科生研究体验（CURE），以此帮助学生理解生物学的核心概念，发展核心科学能力，并成为活跃的、有贡献的科学界成员。社区。该网络将创建 CURE 项目和资源的目录。该网络还将为参与者提供讨论问题的机会，例如如何记录学生的学习成果、对科学的态度和兴趣的变化、科学界参与的变化，以及扩大课程参与的机制。基于研究活动和道德问题，例如谁有权访问和拥有 CURE 生成的数据。 智力优点：该项目将聚集具有不同专业知识的个人（教师、研究人员、信息技术专家、教师发展/课程专家、教育研究人员），他们代表不同的机构和不同的CURE 项目涉及数据类型（基因组、表型、生态）。这些人将通过整个小组和子网团队的会议以及使用社交网络工具来解决上述问题。网络活动中将建立征求本科生和科学团体意见的机制。更广泛的影响：该项目将建立一个信息交换所网站，该网站将成为查找和宣传 CURE 信息的单一“首选”位置。 它还将催生旨在改进 CURE 并扩大其实施的新合作，并将帮助宣传现有的 CURE 资源，以便全国其他教师能够了解在自己的实验室课程中设计此类方法的潜力，同时可以避免一些陷阱这样做。