TY - JOUR
T1 - Advancing Graduate Limnology Education Through Active Learning and Community Partnerships
T2 - A Pilot Program at the Large Lakes Observatory
AU - Schreiner, Kathryn M.
AU - Katsev, Sergei
AU - Steinman, Byron
AU - Sterner, Robert W.
AU - Williams, Julia
AU - Zak, Kevin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
PY - 2017/8
Y1 - 2017/8
N2 - At the Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), we are addressing issues with an outdated limnology graduate curriclum by designing a flipped-classroom, interdisciplinary limnology course sequence that incorporates partnerships with industry, meaningful field and analytical work, and integrated skills learning for our graduate students. This new curriculum is co-taught by four instructors with different research backgrounds and is meant to teach students with a wide range of undergraduate preparation without significant time spent on in-class review, or leaving anyone behind. The courses, which include lecture and practice classes each semester in the graduate students' first year, are built around a course website, www.studywater.org, which will go public in fall of 2018. Funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education, this pilot program will provide a new interdisciplinary curriculum applicable to graduate limnology programs and a public website with limnology modules designed to be searchable and open to the public. Here, we describe in detail our new course sequence, including curriculum, industry partnerships, and field work with the students; provide information on the challenges we faced in developing and teaching this course; and our advice for overcoming those challenges.
AB - At the Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), we are addressing issues with an outdated limnology graduate curriclum by designing a flipped-classroom, interdisciplinary limnology course sequence that incorporates partnerships with industry, meaningful field and analytical work, and integrated skills learning for our graduate students. This new curriculum is co-taught by four instructors with different research backgrounds and is meant to teach students with a wide range of undergraduate preparation without significant time spent on in-class review, or leaving anyone behind. The courses, which include lecture and practice classes each semester in the graduate students' first year, are built around a course website, www.studywater.org, which will go public in fall of 2018. Funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education, this pilot program will provide a new interdisciplinary curriculum applicable to graduate limnology programs and a public website with limnology modules designed to be searchable and open to the public. Here, we describe in detail our new course sequence, including curriculum, industry partnerships, and field work with the students; provide information on the challenges we faced in developing and teaching this course; and our advice for overcoming those challenges.
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U2 - 10.1002/lob.10197
DO - 10.1002/lob.10197
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026839785
SN - 1539-607X
VL - 26
SP - 61
EP - 66
JO - Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin
JF - Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin
IS - 3
ER -