CUPLE: The Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment

CUPLE联盟已经制作了一个新的原型， 大学物理教学资源 课程 CUPLE是全面的，因为它借鉴了创新的 在教室、实验室、讲座演示、 计算物理学、视频光盘和基于计算机的材料 这些都是由来自世界各地的杰出物理教育工作者开发的 全国各地 它是统一的，因为它结合了这些 基于超文本的传递系统中的材料 多媒体环境，提供一致的用户 与学生和教师的接口，消除了对 用户可以学习许多不同系统的特性。 原型系统包括所有必要的工具， 完整的系统，包括数据采集， 微机实验室（MBL），学生解决问题 通过程序建设（M.U.P.P.E.T.）WinPhys）， 将视频集成到计算机显示器中（包括 在屏幕上进行测量的能力），电子表格物理学 材料，以及一个超媒体创作系统， 这些工具在一个环境中，允许教师（或 学生）使用这些工具开发新材料， 需要诉诸复杂的编程。 这个项目 正在将该系统扩展到其他内容领域， 系统在合作中的扩级测试 大学，是使用类测试的结果和 正在进行的技术测试，以进一步完善材料 和工具. 该项目还在开发浏览器， 类设计工具，必要的，让教师设计自定义 课程

The CUPLE Consortium has produced a prototype of new instructional resource for college and university physics courses. CUPLE is comprehensive because it draws on innovative developments in classroom, laboratory, lecture demonstration, computational physics, videodiscs, and computer-based materials that have been developed by outstanding physics educators from all over the country. It is unified because it combines these materials in a delivery system that is based on a hypertext multimedia environment that presents a consistent user interface to the students and faculty, eliminating the need for the user to learn the idiosyncrasies of many different systems. The prototype system includes all of the tools necessary for the complete system, including data acquisition for microcomputer-based laboratories (MBL), student problem-solving through program construction (M.U.P.P.E.T. and WinPhys), integration of video into computer displays (including the ability to make measurements on screen), spreadsheet physics materials, and a hypermedia authoring system that pulls all of these tools together in an environment that allows faculty (or students) to develop new materials using these tools without the need to resort to sophisticated programming. This project is extending that system to additional content areas, is enlarging class testing of the system at cooperating universities, is using the results of class testing and the ongoing technical beta testing to further refine the materials and tools. The project is also developing the browser and class design tools necessary to allow faculty to design custom courses.