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，测量学的技术进步 - 对地球的规模，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，并发现了与水资源有关的重大社会影响的发现薄片和冰川熔化，天然危害，例如地震和滑坡以及环境变化。三个合作机构，分别是圣安东尼奥山学院，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）水文科学（CUAHS）的进步大学的联盟将进一步发展并传播本科学习材料，这些材料将地理数据和方法应用于关键社会问题，同时使教师参与重大的专业发展。以前的奖项是社会问题的Geodesy工具（GETSI）“探索性”第1阶段（1245025），在一部分地理主题中生产了五个教学模块，但是需要其他模块，传播和广泛的教师开发来全面整合地质数据以及包括土木工程，生态和林业在内的本科课程的应用。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）知识基础，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）提高教师使用的教学资源和教学的有效性成员教授地球，地球科学和相关科学/工程领域。