RCN-UBE Incubator: KBase Educators: Microbiome Workforce Development Program

RCN-UBE 孵化器：KBase 教育工作者：微生物组劳动力发展计划

• 批准号: 2316244
• 负责人: Adam Arkin
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-15 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316244&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Incubator; KBase; Educators

Undergraduate educators strive to incorporate useful and meaningful skills that engage their students in current research and prepare their students for jobs in science. However, access to resources that support training in microbiome research limit the ability of many institutions to effectively teach these skills. The KBase Educators: Program for Microbiome Workforce Development Research Coordination Network (RCN) Incubator is focused on developing a more inclusive and accessible microbiome research curriculum that enables a diversity of institutions to train students with the skills necessary to successfully enter the workforce. In addition to teaching resources, the RCN will bring together a peer support network that reaches across five types of institutions, with the goal of forming equitable partnerships that allows each educator to contribute meaningfully to develop a comprehensive microbiome research-based curriculum that accurately reflects realistic access to resources and standards.Participating educators will form working groups to develop a modular curriculum with the guiding question of how microbiomes respond to climate change across ecosystems and potential impacts for humans that culminates in student-led data publications. The RCN will support a workshop where educators can co-create and trial-run modules with their peers, and receive training from partner organizations, such as the Agricultural Microbiome RCN, National Ecological Observatory Network, and National Microbiome Data Collaborative. This will prepare them to pilot the modules in their classrooms, across a range of institutions, and to collect feedback and outline recommendations to scale the program in subsequent years. The goal of training an inclusive workforce is to enable students to become the next generation of researchers capable of answering current questions and generating open data that will address the grand challenges of our future. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for STEM Education, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

本科生教育工作者努力融入有用且有意义的技能，让学生参与当前的研究，并为学生从事科学工作做好准备。然而，获取支持微生物组研究培训的资源限制了许多机构有效教授这些技能的能力。 KBase 教育工作者：微生物组劳动力发展研究协调网络 (RCN) 孵化器计划专注于开发更具包容性和易于理解的微生物组研究课程，使各种机构能够培训学生掌握成功进入劳动力市场所需的技能。除了教学资源外，RCN 还将汇集一个涵盖五种类型机构的同伴支持网络，目标是形成公平的伙伴关系，使每位教育者能够做出有意义的贡献，开发一套全面的基于微生物组研究的课程，准确反映现实情况获得资源和标准。参与的教育工作者将组成工作组来开发模块化课程，其指导问题是微生物组如何应对跨生态系统的气候变化以及对人类的潜在影响，最终形成学生主导的数据出版物。 RCN 将支持一个研讨会，教育工作者可以与同行共同创建和试运行模块，并接受农业微生物组 RCN、国家生态观测站网络和国家微生物组数据协作组织等合作组织的培训。这将使他们做好准备，在一系列机构的课堂上试点这些模块，并收集反馈和概述建议，以在接下来的几年中扩大该项目的规模。培训包容性劳动力的目标是使学生成为下一代研究人员，能够回答当前的问题并生成开放数据，以应对我们未来的重大挑战。该项目由生物科学理事会生物基础设施司和 STEM 教育理事会本科教育司联合资助，作为其努力解决本科生物教育愿景和变革：呼吁中提出的挑战的一部分该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。