Collaborative Research: Implementing 21st century geodesy learning through faculty development and expanded applications of data to societal issues

合作研究：通过教师发展和扩大数据在社会问题上的应用来实施 21 世纪大地测量学学习

• 批准号: 1725347
• 负责人: Donna Charlevoix
• 金额: $ 32.18万
• 依托单位: UNAVCO, Inc.
• 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: 2017-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1725347&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Implementing; 21st; century

Over the last two decades, technical advances in geodesy - the study of the size, shape, and mass of the Earth and their changes with time - have revolutionized our understanding of Earth processes and produced discoveries of major societal impact related to water resources, ice sheet and glacial melting, natural hazards such as earthquakes and landslides, and environmental change. Three collaborating institutions, UNAVCO, Inc., Mount San Antonio College, and Indiana University and other organizations including, Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT), the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHS) will further develop and disseminate undergraduate learning materials that apply geodesy data and methods to critical societal issues, concurrently engaging faculty in significant professional development. A previous award, the GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues (GETSI)"exploratory" Phase 1 (1245025), produced five teaching modules on a subset of geodesy topics, but additional modules, dissemination, and widespread faculty development are needed to fully integrate geodetic data and applications into undergraduate programs, including civil engineering, ecology and forestry. The GETSI Phase 2 plan in this proposal will support four components: 1) development of three new teaching modules and three modules adapted from existing modules to work at different curricular levels; 2) twenty or more in-person and virtual short courses on module implementation (450 faculty served); 3) research on the process of adaption/adoption of curricula by instructors; and 4) research on the challenges and benefits of building modules that serve both geoscience and allied science/engineering students. GETSI project goals are to: 1) improve geoscience (particularly geodetic) knowledge base of undergraduate students both for general science literacy (introductory courses) and future science workforce (majors-level) and 2) improve effectiveness of teaching resources and pedagogy employed by faculty members teaching geodesy, geoscience, and allied science/engineering fields.

在过去的二十年中，地球地球的技术进步 - 对地球的大小，形状和质量的研究及其随着时间的变化彻底改变了我们对地球过程的理解，并发现了与水资源，冰纸和冰川融化，自然危害，地震和地震和陆地滑坡以及环境变化相关的主要社会影响的发现。三个合作机构，联合国教堂，圣安东尼奥山和印第安纳大学以及其他组织，包括科学教育资源中心（SERC），卡尔顿学院，全国地球科学教师协会（NAGT），美国地球物理联盟（AGU），AGU联盟（AGU），以及在水平学材料中进一步发展的水文学材料的财团，将会进一步发展。关键社会问题的方法，同时吸引教师参与重大的专业发展。 A previous award, the GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues (GETSI)"exploratory" Phase 1 (1245025), produced five teaching modules on a subset of geodesy topics, but additional modules, dissemination, and widespread faculty development are needed to fully integrate geodetic data and applications into undergraduate programs, including civil engineering, ecology and forestry.该提案中的Geti第2阶段计划将支持四个组成部分：1）开发三个新的教学模块和三个从现有模块改编的模块，以在不同的课程级别工作； 2）关于模块实施的二十或更多的面对面和虚拟简短课程（450名教职员工）； 3）研究教师适应/采用课程的过程； 4）研究为地球科学和相关科学/工程专业学生服务的建筑模块的挑战和好处。 GETI项目目标是：1）提高本科生的地球科学（尤其是地球化学）知识库，包括一般科学素养（入门课程）和未来的科学劳动力（Majors-level）和2）提高教师教学资源和教学的有效性，教师教学的教学资源和教育学的有效性。