2015 GSEE-Taiwan Summit Program Breakout Discussions Group II

June 30, 2015

l New journal on Experiments in Engagement

n Engagement: scientists interact with the general public outside of the classroom such as public lecture, demo show, summer camp, etc.

n Can be viewed as a new field of science, must be a scholarly journal

n Ideas worth supporting/spreading

n Need linguistic transformation as well ß targeted towards scientists who is not trained as an educator (not write towards the general public such as Scientific American does)

n Publish negative results as well, not only good/excellent results ß lessons learned (Not something typically publishable in professional journals today)

n Evaluation is needed; changes as we move forward (the world changes so fast now)

n Evidence based in order to support the statement/conclusion ß Does evidence changes/varies for different countries?

u Need to recruit board, editors, evaluators, authors, etc.

l Must have an International Science Advisory Board outside of the regular journal board in order to gauge/balance the differences in different countries

n Open Access, need fundings to offset the page charges at the beginning

l Effects or impacts of special Events

n For example, IYL: International Year of Light

u Claim: Let the general public know more about “Light”

l Must define Outreach à Must define the problem better

u Funding goes to big personality, Nobel Laureates, etc.? How can we learn/judge the true outreach/programs, etc.?

u Evaluation program starts/defines at the beginning of the program

l Multistage funding phases: phase 1 has a lot of learning by doing components, phase 2 or later phases may have less “learning by doing” components

l Share the resources internationally in MOOC, etc.

l Google Semantics

l Curriculums ß open source if is cited

n A platform/movement for open source curriculums

n Similar to “copyleft” movement in open source software? Extract course materials and then make it into another course? ß Falses or failures of the actions may harm the original contributors (whose original intention or listing may be different from the way it is published/extracted later)?!