SGER: Enabling Wide-Area Network Research in the Science Classroom

SGER：在科学课堂上实现广域网研究

• 批准号: 9153959
• 负责人: Michael Cole
• 金额: $ 3.11万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 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: 1991-04-15 至 1992-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9153959&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Enabling; Wide; Area; Network

This proposal is for exploratory small grant funding for the collation and summary of telecommunications-in-education research applicable to the use of large-scale wide-area networks in the science classroom and the prompt dissemination of that information to the facilitators of state and national education networks. The purpose of this project is to facilitate future research in educational telecommunications, and to collate and provide information useful to the initial phases of state-wide and national telecommunications-in-education networks. Several states, and several commercial organizations are already offering or are about to offer from September 1991 or September 1992 access to large scale telecommunications facilities to schools. Though a considerable amount of research has been done on individual small scale networks and on small group components of large-scale networks, this research is neither easily accessible nor wholly relevant to the large-scale situation. As yet,l we have very little information on the effects of scaling up from the base of research-oriented prototype networks. Also, the creation of these new telecommunications applications and new network communities in education is taking place extremely quickly. If these developments are to be constructive advances in teaching and learning strategies it is imperative that these new efforts should be informed by prior experience and research. In order to establish a baseline of relevant information in a timely fashion, it is proposed that NSF should fund a limited research initiative between April 1, 1991 and September 1,l 1991. The initiative will have three components - the collation of existing research, a demonstration study of an academic network, and a demonstration study of a global-scale K-12 network.

本提案旨在为教育中的电信研究的整理和总结提供探索性小额赠款资金，这些研究适用于在科学课堂中使用大规模广域网，并将这些信息迅速传播给州和国家教育网络的促进者。该项目的目的是促进教育电信的未来研究，并整理和提供对州和国家教育电信网络初始阶段有用的信息。几个州和几个商业组织已经或准备从1991年9月或1992年9月开始向学校提供使用大型电信设施的机会。虽然已经对个别小规模网络和大规模网络的小团体组成部分进行了大量的研究，但这些研究既不容易获得，也不完全与大规模情况有关。到目前为止，我们在以研究为导向的原型网络的基础上，对规模扩大的影响知之甚少。此外，这些新的电信应用和新的教育网络社区的创建正在以极快的速度进行。如果要使这些发展成为教学和学习策略方面的建设性进展，这些新的努力就必须借鉴以往的经验和研究。为了及时建立相关信息的基线，建议NSF在1991年4月1日至1991年9月1日期间资助一项有限的研究计划。该计划将有三个组成部分——对现有研究的整理、一个学术网络的示范研究和一个全球规模的K-12网络的示范研究。