Advancing and Sustaining HydroLearn to Support CIROH Professional Training Needs
Research Team Members
Objective:
The primary objective of this project is to adapt HydroLearn modules to meet the training needs of the hydrologic sciences community of practice. This initiative aims to enhance CIROH’s educational and workforce development mission through HydroLearn and its pedagogical model. The project seeks to engage the CIROH community in developing HydroLearn content and establish a long-term sustainability plan for HydroLearn in collaboration with CUAHSI.
Approach:
Our team will develop high-quality technical content using best practices in content design, ensuring it is accessible and adaptable across CIROH institutions. With funding from our 2023 proposal, we conducted a summer 2024 workshop and hackathon that produced new online learning modules on topics relevant to CIROH’s themes. This 2024 proposal supports adapting these modules to meet the learning needs of professionals and consultants. In January 2025, a virtual workshop was held for faculty, students, and postdocs engaged in CIROH-funded projects to adapt content into modules addressing the learning needs of professionals and consultants.
Impact:
The project will produce high-quality learning materials for use in classes and professional training, such as at river forecast centers. It will result in students trained on CIROH-related topics, ready to enter the workforce, and CIROH faculty better equipped to develop learning modules and employ effective teaching pedagogy.Abstract:
This project aims to adapt HydroLearn modules to serve the training needs of the hydrologic sciences community of practice, enhancing CIROH’s educational and workforce development mission through HydroLearn and its pedagogical model. There is a significant gap between the skills students acquire through university coursework and those desired by employers in the hydrologic sciences community. This gap also affects practicing professionals within CIROH communities. Our team will develop high-quality technical content using best practices in content design, making it accessible and adaptable across CIROH institutions. With funding from our 2023 proposal, we held a summer 2024 workshop and hackathon that produced new online learning modules on CIROH-related themes. This proposal supports adapting these modules to meet the learning needs of professionals and consultants. A virtual workshop in January 2025 engaged faculty, students, and postdocs in adapting content into modules addressing the needs of professionals and consultants. This project will grow the community and workforce with expertise in operational hydrology and new capabilities emerging from CIROH.