I-Corps L: A User-Discovery, Hypothesis-Driven Exploration of Potential Scaling and Sustainability of Innovations in Water Education

I-Corps L：用户发现、假设驱动的水教育创新潜力扩展和可持续性探索

• 批准号: 1644493
• 负责人: Emad Habib
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-15 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1644493&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; User; Discovery; Hypothesis; Driven

The objective of this project is to engage in a hypothesis-driven, customer-discovery process to inform the scalability and sustainability of educational innovations in the field of hydrology and water resources education. The HydroViz educational innovation was developed as a set of web-based, active-learning modules for undergraduate hydrology and water resources education with extensive use of water data and modeling resources. The project responds to the increasing calls by the water education communities for a broad reform in hydrologic education as a requisite for making significant advances in the theory and practices of water resources engineering and earth sciences. While the immediate end users of the potential development is in the field of water resources and hydrology, the outcomes of this I-Corps L effort will have an impact on the broader community of users who can benefit from place-based education and who can take advantage of geospatial technologies, web-based resources, and scientific data sharing. The project will also contribute to resolving lasting challenges that confront digital learning and cyber-education efforts that often fail to achieve fully scalable and sustainable outcomes. The project will produce knowledge on how to scale and sustain educational innovations that are presented in the form of digital learning resources. The hypothesis, developed based on classroom implementation and assessment data, as well as feedback from instructors, indicates that there is a user need for developments such as those initiated in this project and that there is an opportunity for the project to engage in a scaling effort that is guided by a rigorous process of customer discovery and hypothesis validation. A hypothesized scalability and sustainability solution is to establish a general platform for the learning modules to connect to and interoperate with community-based hydrologic data and model sharing resources, and thus provide a user capability by which independent users can develop their own modules. The envisioned solution will go through a hypothesis validation and customer discovery process as part of this project.

该项目的目标是参与假设驱动的客户发现过程，以告知水文和水资源教育领域教育创新的可扩展性和可持续性。 HydroViz 教育创新是一套基于网络的主动学习模块，用于本科水文学和水资源教育，广泛使用水数据和建模资源。该项目响应了水教育界日益强烈的要求，即对水文教育进行广泛的改革，这是水资源工程和地球科学的理论和实践取得重大进展的必要条件。虽然潜在开发项目的直接最终用户是水资源和水文学领域，但 I-Corps L 的努力成果将对更广泛的用户社区产生影响，他们可以从基于地方的教育中受益，并且可以接受地理空间技术、网络资源和科学数据共享的优势。该项目还将有助于解决数字学习和网络教育工作所面临的持久挑战，这些挑战往往无法实现完全可扩展和可持续的成果。该项目将产生有关如何扩展和维持教育创新的知识，并以数字学习资源的形式呈现。该假设是根据课堂实施和评估数据以及教师的反馈制定的，表明用户需要开发诸如本项目中启动的开发项目，并且该项目有机会参与扩展工作这是以严格的客户发现和假设验证过程为指导的。假设的可扩展性和可持续性解决方案是为学习模块建立一个通用平台，以连接和互操作基于社区的水文数据和模型共享资源，从而提供独立用户可以开发自己的模块的用户能力。作为该项目的一部分，设想的解决方案将经历假设验证和客户发现过程。