Growth of an Electronic Learning Community in a Science Curriculum Development Project

9353353罗课程开发项目的成功取决于开发者和教师之间富有成效的合作。然而，在许多项目中，试验点分布在全国各地，使得持续的沟通和反馈变得繁琐。因此，由于开发人员没有及时接收和响应反馈，项目会受到影响。这个项目的目的是创建一个可行的电子学习社区，并与中学科学课程开发项目相结合。从理论上讲，电子网络的潜在贡献是巨大的。然而，在实践中，很少有人幸存下来，也没有人经过足够仔细的研究，以提供有用的知识基础，在此基础上建立其他知识基础。NSF资助的两个项目将进行合作，一个是课程，另一个是开发通信软件，特别适合于帮助地理上分散的人们一起工作，以产生更好的结果。这项研究的一个成果将是编制新的电子学习社区形成的指导方针。＊＊＊

9353353 Rowe Curriculum development projects depend for their success on fruitful collaboration between developers and teachers. In many projects, however, trial sites are spread around the country making on going communication and feedback cumbersome. As a result projects suffer because developers do not receive and respond to feedback in a timely manner. The purpose of this project is to create a viable electronic learning community in conjunction with a science curriculum development project for middle schools. In theory the potential contribution of electronic networks is great. In practice, however, few have survived and none have been studied carefully enough to provide a useful knowledge base on which to build others. Two NSF funded projects will collaborate, one in curriculum and one that has developed communication software especially suited to help people who are geographically dispersed work together to produce better results. One product of this study will be the preparation of guidelines for the formation of new electronic learning communities. ***