RCN-UBE: ImmunoReach - An interdisciplinary community of practice to promote immune literacy.

RCN-UBE：ImmunoReach - 一个促进免疫素养的跨学科实践社区。

• 批准号: 2316260
• 负责人: Sumali Pandey
• 金额: $ 49.94万
• 依托单位: Minnesota State University Moorhead
• 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: 2023-10-01 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316260&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; ImmunoReach; interdisciplinary; community

This project will expand the ImmunoReach network to develop and test new tools for teaching immunology in college biology courses. Immunological terms and concepts are complicated and new discoveries are made every year. This can discourage people from learning about this important topic and makes it difficult for instructors to keep current in the subject. The lesson plans that will be developed in this project will make immunology concepts easier to understand and help teachers feel comfortable teaching immunology across all levels of courses. This work by ImmunoReach will help improve the quality of biology education and support public understanding of important societal issues such as combatting infectious disease, vaccination, and impacts of climate change.ImmunoReach is an interdisciplinary Community of Practice (CoP) that aims to foster immune literacy and increase access to immunology education beyond traditional immunology-specific classrooms. This CoP will identify a common language between disciplines to discuss and share curricular challenges and solutions with the broader community. To accomplish this, we will look towards the key concepts and competencies described in The Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action report, and Benchmarks for Science Literacy (AAAS, 2011 and 1993, respectively). The ImmunoReach network will bring together educators who are committed to the goals of fostering immune literacy, through the use of evidence-based pedagogical practices. The network will develop teaching resources that integrate immunology-related interdisciplinary learning outcomes, for example, those intersecting with microbiology, genetics, ecology, evolution, physiology and chemistry. Less experienced educators of immunology, representing diverse institutional and disciplinary expertise, will be paired with experienced immunology educators for developing, implementing, and assessing these interdisciplinary teaching resources, based on a backward design approach and active learning strategies. The products generated at the end of this project will be shared with the network participants and the broader community through ImmunoReach’s QUBES hub site, virtual symposiums, conference presentations, journal publications, and other outreach activities. The network will empower educators to positively impact diverse student populations with the ultimate aim to foster immune literacy. 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.

该项目将扩展ImmunoReach 网络，以开发和测试在大学生物学课程中教授免疫学的新工具。免疫学术语和概念很复杂，而且每年都会有新的发现，这可能会阻碍人们学习这一重要主题，并使学习变得困难。该项目将制定的课程计划将使教师更容易理解免疫学概念，并帮助教师在各个级别的教学课程中适应免疫学。和支持公众对重要社会问题的理解，例如抗击传染病、疫苗接种和气候变化的影响。ImmunoReach 是一个跨学科的实践社区 (CoP)，旨在培养免疫知识并增加传统免疫学特定课堂之外的免疫学教育机会。本次 CoP 将确定学科之间的共同语言，以便与更广泛的社区讨论和分享课程挑战和解决方案。为了实现这一目标，我们将着眼于《本科生物教育的愿景与变革：呼吁》中描述的关键概念和能力。行动报告和科学素养基准（AAAS，分别于 2011 年和 1993 年）。ImmunoReach 网络将通过使用基于证据的教学实践，将致力于培养免疫素养目标的教育工作者聚集在一起。整合免疫学相关跨学科学习成果的教学资源，例如与微生物学、遗传学、生态学、进化论、生理学和化学交叉的教学资源，代表经验不足的免疫学教育者。多样化的机构和学科专业知识，将与经验丰富的免疫学教育工作者配合，基于向后设计方法和主动学习策略，开发、实施和评估这些跨学科教学资源。该项目结束时生成的产品将与该项目共享。该网络将使教育工作者能够对不同的学生群体产生积极影响，最终目标是培养免疫素养。共同资助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共同制定，作为应对《本科生物教育愿景与变革：行动呼吁》中提出的挑战的努力的一部分 (http:// Visionandchange/finalreport/)。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。