NCSE-CEDD CAMEL

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Climate, Adaptation, and Mitigation e-Learning
Community David Blockstein, Ph.D., Senior
Scientist Executive Secretary Council of
Environmental Deans and Directors Council of
Energy Research and Education Leaders www.NCSEonli
ne.org
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I. Introduction to NCSE Mission to improve the
scientific basis of environmental decisionmaking.
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• Five Strategies
• Education and Careers - People
• Science Solutions - Problems
• Science Policy - Policies
• National Conference - Pathways
• Encyclopedia of the Earth - Public

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• Education and Careers
• Goal increase the number and quality of trained
  individuals to address complex environmental
  challenges.
• Partners Universities and colleges
• High schools
• Employers
• Government agencies

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• Council of Environmental Deansand Directors
  (CEDD)
• Top Environmental Leaders at Affiliate
  Universities
• Curriculum, including Climate Solutions
  Curriculum
• Careers, including Environmental Alumni Career
  Study and Campus to Careers Program
• Program Administration
• Interdisciplinary Hiring, Tenure and Promotion

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CAMEL

• Climate, Adaptation, and Mitigation e-Learning
  Community
• Nationwide (and beyond) community
• Educators, researchers, students
• Undergraduate materialsall levels and fields
• Climate change causes, consequences and solutions

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Origins of CAMEL

• 8th National Conference on Science, Policy and
  the Environment - Climate Change Science and
  Solutions January 2008
• CEDD committee 2008
• CEDD workshop July 2008
• Concept pre-proposal September 2008

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Five Components

• Content
• Faculty development
• Community development
• Cyberinfrastructure
• Evaluation

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Content

• Arnold Bloom, UC Davis (lead)
• Gary Braasch, GHG Photos
• David Hassenzahl, U. of Nevada - Las Vegas
• Neil Leary, Dickinson College
• Mark McCaffrey, U. of Colorado - Boulder
• Stephanie Pfirman, Barnard College/Columbia U.
• Nicky Phear, U. of Montana
• Josh Wolfe, GHG photos
• CEDD

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Content

• To provide undergraduates with information to
  become knowledgeable about climate change causes,
  consequences, and solutions. Becoming
  knowledgeable extends from being conversant in a
  common terminology to using the information
  directly in practical applications.

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Content

• Working framework of curriculum foci
• develop a collection of vetted materials for
  undergraduate courses
• Syllabi, case studies, lectures, projects,
  websites
• Refereed journal / Encyclopedia of Earth hybrid
• Bloom as editor
• Topic area editors
• Reviewers
• Developers

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Faculty Development

• Jean MacGregor, Evergreen State College
• Steve Ehrmann, TLT Group
• Stephanie Pfirman, Barnard College/Columbia U.
• Karl Smith, Purdue U.
• CEDD

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Faculty Development

• To provide guidance, training, and opportunities
  for collaboration and communication to faculty
  members who develop materials

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Faculty Development

• Provide support for faculty as they are building
  climate change into their curricula
• Some in-person work
• Apply lessons from in-person experience and
  literature to on-line environments

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Community Development

• Stephanie Pfirman (lead), Barnard
  College/Columbia U.
• Barry Benedict, U. of Texas - El Paso
• David Blockstein, NCSE
• David Hassenzahl, U. of Nevada - Las Vegas
• Clay Shirky, NYU/technology consultant
• CEDD

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Community Development

• To build a self-sustaining community of educators
  that advances the teaching of climate change
  causes, consequences, and solutions

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Community Development

• Opportunities
• Motivations for participation
• Norms, standards, and expectations
• National Communities
• Topical Communities
• Regional communities
• Western Washington, Hudson River Valley, Rio
  Grande / border, NV/ID/NM, Boston?

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Cyberinfrastructure

• Barry Benedict, U. of Texas - El Paso
• Peter Saundry, NCSE
• Maggie Surface, NCSE
• CEDD

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Cyberinfrastructure

• To evaluate existing infrastructure and develop
  novel infrastructure designed to best achieve the
  goals of the content, faculty development, and
  community components

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Cyberinfrastructure

• Platforms
• Encyclopedia of Earth
• CyberShare
• Enable the goals of the other three components
• Mutual
• Recursive

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Evaluation

• Anne-Barrie Hunter (lead), U. of Colorado -
  Boulder
• Andy Jorgensen, U. of Toledo
• Jean MacGregor, Evergreen State College
• Tim Weston, U. of Colorado - Boulder

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Challenges

• Hard to build community
• Faculty are busy

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Strengths

• NASA grant (the CAMELs nose under the tent)
• Model course
• Model community
• Dedicated personnel
• MERLOT and other models
• Initial pool of materials and participants
• CEDD
• Existing platforms
• Timing!

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THANKS

• Heidi Fuchs!
• Andy Jorgensen
• Stephanie Pfirman
• Arnold Bloom
• Jean MacGregor
• David Hassenzahl
• Barry Benedict
• Amy Northrup

• Mark McCaffrey
• Anne-Barrie Hunter
• Tim Weston
• Neil Leary
• Clay Shirky
• Karl Smith
• Peter Saundry
• Many others