A Strategic Goal of the Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) Project is to "Increase the availability of high-quality POGIL materials." A Strategic Plan Working Group is developing an online resource, the POGIL Activity Clearinghouse (PAC), to support authors at all of the steps in the pathway to publication of activities from idea creation to final activity testing. The goal of the PAC is to help authors to share ideas for new activities, to search for collaborators, to obtain peer feedback on activities that are in development, and to distribute tested activities. The PAC is loosely structured around the paradigm of a peer-reviewed journal. Like a peer-reviewed journal, authors submit their activities and ideas to an editorial team. The editorial team then guides the development and refinement of an activity with input from a community of peer reviewers. Sections of the PAC are devoted to publishing activities at different levels of development, and sufficiently developed activities can obtain permanent digital object identifiers (DOI's). Unlike traditional journals, the PAC encourages authors to submit ideas that are unfinished so that likeminded practitioners can find each other and supports the iterative refinement of activity ideas through a lifecycle of idea generation, activity development, and activity distribution. The PAC has stages for activities that are well developed and activities that are in their conceptual development.

Development of the POGIL Activity Clearinghouse (PAC)

2019 Spring National Meeting

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