CUPLE: The Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment

中国大学物理学院联盟为高校物理课程提供了一个新的教学资源原型。我校综合了全国优秀物理教育工作者在课堂、实验室、讲座演示、计算物理、光盘和计算机教材等方面的创新发展。它是统一的，因为它将这些材料结合在一个基于超文本多媒体环境的交付系统中，该环境向学生和教师呈现一致的用户界面，从而消除了用户学习许多不同系统的特性的需要。原型系统包括完整系统所需的所有工具，包括基于微型机的实验室（MBL）的数据采集、通过程序构建（M.U.P.P.E.T.和WinPhys）的学生问题解决、将视频集成到计算机显示器（包括在屏幕上进行测量的能力）、电子表格物理材料、还有一个超媒体创作系统，它将所有这些工具整合到一个环境中，允许教师（或学生）使用这些工具开发新材料，而无需诉诸复杂的编程。这个项目正在将该系统扩展到更多的内容领域，正在扩大合作大学对该系统的班级测试，正在利用班级测试的结果和正在进行的技术测试来进一步改进材料和工具。该项目还开发了浏览器和课堂设计工具，使教师能够设计定制课程。

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.