Education/Telecon 2019-06-26

June 26, 2019 @ 3pm ET

Participants: Becky Reid, Margaret Mooney, Megan Carter, Shelley Olds, Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Katy Rico, LuAnn Dahlman, James Acker

Agenda:

1. Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich - ESIP-hosted Data Management Training Clearinghouse (DMTC) (http://dmtclearinghouse.esipfed.org)

• Wants to enhance the Clearinghouse by coming up with an assessment framework for the content in the clearinghouse
• DMTC contains metadata for resources on research data management, tasks associated with the research and data life cycle, etc.
• Includes videos, MOOCs, only metadata NOT resources themselves
• In terms of assessment framework, interested in getting educators to join discussions of what kinds of assessments are feasible
  • Traditional learning objectives & outcome or something else??
  • ESIP Summer Meeting Session: Assessment Frameworks and Dimensions for Educational & Training Resources, Wednesday July 17th at 10:30 am: See more info at https://sched.co/PtPh.
• Budget Talk

2. Review 2019 budget (in Education Committee Team Drive)

• Dream a bit about 2020: Brainstorm ideas, no decisions yet
  • Is NSTA regional worth the monetary investment?-- low numbers
  • Thinking about summer meeting content/how to advertise to regional teachers
    • Survey/solicit feedback from teachers that we reached out to this year to see why they did not sign up?
      • Was it the content? Registration? The announcement?
    • Next meeting in Vermont
    • Identify regional meeting where ESIP will be, advertise summer meeting to teachers there
      • October 24th meeting in Vermont; see below
  • October 24th meeting in Vermont; applications due in July
    • Margaret to take the lead
    • Redirect other (NSTA regional) funds?
  • Adopt a school in the DC area to revisit each Winter Meeting?
    • Tailored to teacher’s needs
    • Use as a testing ground for ESIP Ed content/materials
    • Potential schools?
    • Fund teachers to go to Goddard to work with Jim Acker/Giovanni?

3. Teacher Workshop Update

• 12 registrants currently
• Spinning up Jupyter
• Need questions from LuAnn/Shelley to put on the feedback forms/surveys
  • Do pre- and post-

4. Next Meeting - Scheduled for July 18th - Skip or reschedule?

• Skip but email about budget