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.

本科教育者努力融入有用的有意义的技能，使学生参与当前的研究，并为学生做好科学工作的准备。但是，获得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：微生物劳动力发展研究协调网络（RCN）孵化器的重点是开发更具包容性和可访问的微生物组研究课程，使多样化的机构能够培训学生成功进入劳动力所需的技能。除教学资源外，RCN还将汇集一个同行支持网络，该网络跨越五种类型的机构，其目的是建立公平的伙伴关系，使每个教育者能够有意义地为开发一项全面的基于微生物的课程做出贡献生态系统和对人类的潜在影响，最终导致学生主导的数据出版物。 RCN将支持一个研讨会，教育工作者可以在该研讨会上与同行共同创建和试用模块，并接受合作伙伴组织的培训，例如农业微生物组RCN，国家生态天文台网络和国家微生物组数据合作。这将使他们准备在教室中，各个机构中试行模块，并收集反馈和大纲建议，以在随后的几年中扩展该计划。培训一名包容性劳动力的目标是使学生成为能够回答当前问题并产生开放数据的下一代研究人员，这将解决我们未来的巨大挑战。 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利用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响审查标准。