Integrating Method and Theory in Introductory Science Through Multimedia Computing

通过多媒体计算整合入门科学的方法和理论

• 批准号: 9151873
• 负责人: David Whisnant
• 金额: $ 6.4万
• 依托单位: Wofford College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-04-01 至 1994-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9151873&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Method; Theory; Introductory; Science

This project is creating a multimedia computer network with interactive hypermedia courseware that integrates lectures and laboratories in introductory chemistry and geology courses. This courseware complements current laboratory experiences and encourages students to critically study the context and content of their experiments. The project is equipping a multimedia laboratory with eight computer workstations interfaced with videodisc players, networked to a fileserver computer. The project utilizes two additional computer workstations and video recording equipment for courseware development. Using hypermedia authoring software, sets of exercises are being produced which students will use after completion of laboratory experiments. These computer-based exercises feature text, computer graphics, still images captured from live video of laboratory experiments, image sequences from videodiscs, and simulations. In doing these exercises, students are required to interactively solve problems relating to the laboratory. As students work with these exercises they use a hypertext database of information within an expert system context, to logically blend information from lectures and readings with laboratory observations and procedures.NSF grant funds are being matched with funds from non-Federal sources.

这个项目正在创建一个多媒体计算机网络，使用交互式超媒体课件，将化学和地质学入门课程中的讲座和实验室整合在一起。本课程是对当前实验经验的补充，并鼓励学生批判性地研究实验的背景和内容。该项目正在为一个多媒体实验室配备8个计算机工作站，与视盘播放器接口，并与一台文件服务器计算机联网。该项目利用两个额外的计算机工作站和录像设备来开发课件。使用超媒体创作软件，正在制作一套练习，学生在完成实验室实验后将使用这些练习。这些基于计算机的练习以文本、计算机图形、从实验室实验的现场视频捕获的静止图像、从视频光盘获取的图像序列和模拟为特色。在做这些练习时，学生需要互动地解决与实验室有关的问题。当学生进行这些练习时，他们使用专家系统环境中的超文本信息数据库，以逻辑地将讲座和阅读材料中的信息与实验室观察和程序相结合。NSF的拨款与非联邦来源的资金相匹配。