The COSEE network has been successful at reaching its core mission of engaging scientists and educators to transform ocean sciences education for all. The network has achieved this by integrating the results of current scientific research into classrooms and informal education venues, giving thousands of scientists the opportunity to broaden the impacts of their research.
The COSEE Priority Recommendations Document represents a final report submitted to The Division of Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation in July 2001. This 69-page "Background Document" is based on the COSEE Final Report of the May 2000 Workshop attended by approximately 75 individuals from throughout this country with interests and expertise in ocean sciences research and education.
COSEE-OS regularly runs workshops pairing educators and scientists, teaching them how to use concept mapping to communicate complex ideas in science to their audiences. As part of this process, the scientists and educators are matched into teams based on their understanding of several content areas. The matching process has developed over time to become a quantitative and repeatable process that has been responsible for the creation of successful scientist/educator teams.
Though most of that process is not usually shared with workshop participants, the COSEE team thought it might be information that could be shared with the teachers. To give them a better idea as to our rationale and invite them to better get to know our process, we thought of ways to convey that information in a new way. Instead of writing many emails or posting static content to our webpage, we looked to a blog as a potential tool for giving our workshop a voice.
