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The ENGAGE Workshop: Encouraging Networks between Geoscience and Geoscience Education

The ENGAGE Workshop: Encouraging Networks between Geoscience and Geoscience Education. Nicole LaDue , Northern Illinois University ; Michael Hubenthal , John Taber , Danielle Sumy, IRIS ;

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The ENGAGE Workshop: Encouraging Networks between Geoscience and Geoscience Education

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  1. The ENGAGE Workshop: Encouraging Networks between Geoscience and Geoscience Education Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University; Michael Hubenthal, John Taber, Danielle Sumy, IRIS; Andreas Andersson, Scripps Oceanographic Institution; Jeremy Bassis, University of Michigan; Kaatje Kraft, Whatcom Community College; Peter Lea, Bowdoin College; Shelley Pressley, Washington State University; Beverly Stambaugh, NSF

  2. Overview • Goals • Participants • Workshop activities • Results • Recommendations

  3. Workshop Goals • Promote cross-disciplinary awareness and relationships among early-career researchers in geoscience and geoscience education. • Nurture and prepare future leaders in the geoscience community to advance geoscience research and education. • Engage both geoscience and geoscience education communities in the identification of future synergistic research directions • Develop and share strategies for • Design of more competitive Broader Impacts components of proposals submitted to NSF Geosciences • Improved geoscience education related proposals submitted to NSF Education and Human Resources.

  4. Participation • 33 early career participants selected from over 100 applicants • Selected participants covered a range ofgeosciencedisciplines and academic positions

  5. Prior Knowledge of Education Research

  6. Workshop activities • Nature of science icebreaker • Common point of entry across fields • Small group case study analysis • Outreach, educational evaluation, or research • Discussion panel: status of geoscience education research • Identifying disciplinary learning challenges • Discipline specific data visualizations and graphs • Conveying the range of spatial scales • Bridging lab, field, and modeling • Conveying uncertainty • Keynote: Interdisciplinary collaboration in geoscience education, Heather Petcovic

  7. Workshop activities • Small group thought experiments • Gallery walk to solidify research questions and teams • Discussion panel: successful collaborative geoscienceeducation projects • Developing collaborative projects • NSF-led discussion on Broader Impacts • Next steps

  8. Connections Made End-of-workshop survey results:

  9. Post workshop intentions Most are likely to continue learning and engagement with Geoscience Education Research in the following year

  10. Some Current Hurdles to Geoscience Education Research • Shifting funding opportunities present a challenge for new investigators to build upon pilot work targeted towards a particular solicitation • Recognition within departments is needed for researchers to be able to engage in this type of work • Perceived value of geoscience education research publications is not equal to publications in other geoscience journals

  11. Workshop Recommendations:Broadening the Impact ofGeoscience Education Research • A deeper understanding of other DBER fields’ experience • Examples of paths forward to increase scope and impact of geoscience education research (GER) • Increasing the number of GERs at more institutions, particularly at R1 institutions • Opportunities to create research programs to train PhDs in DBER and hybrid programs • Dissemination of GER to a broader geoscience audience • Find ways to advertise GER as an avenue for developing stronger Broader Impacts

  12. Workshop Recommendations: Resources Needed • A new funding mechanismto support both the geoscientist and theGER in joint projects across NSF GEO and EHR • An electronic networkto provide opportunities for geoscientists to meet or learn about GERs looking for collaborators on research. • A geoscience education research primer, including a summary of promising directions for the field, written for geoscience researchers. • Future opportunities to meetto continue sharing across discipline boundaries

  13. Summary • The ENGAGE workshop fostered cross-disciplinary networking among early career participants • It enabled most participants to become better prepared to enter into cross-disciplinary relationships • Participants are likely to continue learning and engagement withgeoscience education research • Participants outlined recommendations to assist development of a geoscience community that values and benefits from integration with the growing community of geoscience education researchers Draft workshop report: www.iris.edu/hq/workshops/2015/01/engage_workshop

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