Collaborative Research: Grounding Institutional Partnerships in Structures for Broader Impacts Design

协作研究：在结构中建立机构伙伴关系以实现更广泛的影响设计

• 批准号: 1610039
• 负责人: Michelle Kortenaar
• 金额: $ 76.85万
• 依托单位: Sciencenter
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2021-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1610039&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Grounding; Institutional; Partnerships

As higher education institutions (HEIs) work to enhance Broader Impacts (BI) efforts, collaborations with informal science education institutions (ISEs) (e.g. science centers, aquaria, zoos) can help them strengthen their impact and reach broader audiences. This project builds on the successful Portal to the Public (PoP) framework, bringing together the expertise and resources of HEIs and ISEs around the shared mission of engaging public audiences in current STEM research. The project is designed to address several critical needs: (1) Public outreach BI activities are relatively uncommon compared to BI that is focused within the infrastructure of academia; (2) Because collaborations with ISEs are frequently tied to individual Principal Investigators (PIs), there is limited opportunity to build a body of knowledge around the practice of partnering for BI work; and (3) Collaborations are often transient, making it more difficult for universities to view BI on an institutional level in ways that leverage particular institutional assets or strategies and even link investigators from multiple projects.The specific areas of study are: a. Develop and test a structure for education/outreach BI experience design that addresses a public audience need and meets NSF's BI criterion: The project will create disseminatable tools around the activity design process (including evaluation of learning impacts). By convening cross-disciplinary teams, the project will ensure that experiences will reflect a wide range of expertise and will help meet the needs of multiple stakeholders. These established structures will lower the barrier to entry for PIs who want to do public outreach BI.b. Design, test, and study structures for long-term, mutually beneficial HEI-ISE partnerships: The project will build on the proven PoP model to create flexible, disseminatable tools around the development of institutional partnerships at three collaborating HEI-ISE site pairings that consider each institution's resources, constraints and strategic goals, including a cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary Broader Impacts Design (BID) Team structure. Sustained partnerships will support ongoing public engagement with current STEM research.c. Anchor the partnership at the HEI with a representative from an office of research support: Research support professionals will be a core part of the BID Team and will help support institutional strategies for aligning BI activities with broader goals around community engagement.d. Study the culture of HEI-ISE partnerships, building knowledge about how these institutions can form effective, sustained and mutually beneficial collaborations.Project partners include Pacific Science Center with the University of Washington, Bothell, WA; University of Wisconsin-Madison with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; and the Sciencenter with Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. In addition, the Center for Research in Lifelong Learning, Oregon State University will oversee the research aspects of the project. The project's primary benefit is the development of more effective mechanisms for HEIs and ISEs to collaborate, that will better enable them to engage their communities in experiences and conversations about current STEM research and innovation.This project is being funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments.

随着高等教育机构（HEI）努力增强更广泛的影响（BI）努力，与非正式科学教育机构（ISES）（例如，科学中心，水族馆，Zoos）的合作可以帮助他们增强其影响并吸引更广泛的受众。 该项目建立在公众（POP）框架成功的门户网站的基础上，将HEI和ISE的专业知识和资源汇总到与当前STEM研究中吸引公众受众的共同使命。该项目旨在满足几种关键需求：（1）与集中在学术界基础设施中的BI相比，公共外展BI活动相对罕见； （2）由于与ISES的合作经常与个人首席研究人员（PIS）相关，因此围绕与BI工作合作的实践建立知识的机会有限； （3）合作通常是暂时的，使大学以利用特定的机构资产或策略的方式在机构层面上查看BI，甚至将研究人员与多个项目联系起来。 开发和测试一种满足公众受众需求并满足NSF BI标准的教育/外展BI经验设计的结构：该项目将围绕活动设计过程（包括对学习影响的评估）创建散布的工具。通过召集跨学科团队，该项目将确保体验将反映出广泛的专业知识，并有助于满足多个利益相关者的需求。这些已建立的结构将降低想要进行公共外展BI.B.的PI的进入障碍。 长期，互惠互利的合作伙伴关系的设计，测试和研究结构：该项目将建立在经过验证的流行模型的基础上，以创建围绕三个协作的HEI-ISE配对来开发机构合作伙伴关系的柔性，令人难以置信的工具，以考虑每个机构的资源，约束和战略目标，包括跨机构和交叉跨界的构造，包括一个宽广的构建（包括跨国公司和跨越宽阔的效果）。持续的合作伙伴关系将支持与当前的STEM Research.C进行的持续公众参与。 与研究支持办公室的代表建立了HEI的合作伙伴关系：研究支持专业人员将成为投标团队的核心部分，并将帮助支持机构策略，以使BI活动与社区参与的更广泛的目标保持一致。 研究海学伙伴关系的文化，建立有关这些机构如何形成有效，持续和互惠互利的合作的知识。项目伙伴包括华盛顿州华盛顿大学华盛顿大学的太平洋科学中心；威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校在威斯康星州发现研究所；以及纽约州伊萨卡市康奈尔大学的科学家。 此外，俄勒冈州立大学终身学习研究中心将监督该项目的研究方面。该项目的主要好处是开发HEI和ISES合作的更有效的机制，这将使他们能够让他们的社区参与有关当前STEM研究和创新的经验和对话。该项目是由前进的非正式STEM学习计划（AISL）资助的，该计划旨在促进基于证据的方法，以及基于证据的方法，以及基于循证的对STEM和DEMSTAL ENRICTENTERMENTERMENTINL INDEM NORMENAL INDER-DEAMENTERMENTER中的理解和开发的知识。