The Co Vis Testbed: A National Science Education Collaboratory

Co Vis 测试平台：国家科学教育合作实验室

• 批准号: 9454729
• 负责人: Louis Gomez
• 金额: $ 353.91万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-10-01 至 1999-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9454729&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Co; Vis; Testbed; National; Science

9454729 Pea The work in this proposal builds on the Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project, an NSF-AAT testbed. CoVis has focused on three areas - project-enhanced science learning, collaboration, and scientific visualization - as a means for transforming science education. Its goal has been to use next- generation technologies to support the formation and work activities of learning communities with media-rich communication and scientific visualization tools in a highly interactive networked collaborative context. The NIE testbed will transform the small-scale working CoVis model with three hundred participants at the high school level into a large-scale Collaboratory, for thousands of users in diverse settings. In exploring networking infrastructures for education, it is essential to recognize that "infrastructure" consists of more than network connections and transport protocols. To be effective, support for networked learning communities requires three interdependent components: technology infrastructure, educational content infrastructure, and teacher support and development infrastructure. In order to characterize costs and outcomes, a testbed also requires an evaluation and dissemination infrastructure. The technology infrastructure will provide students and teachers with an environment to support collaborative learning that includes video teleconferencing, collaboration software, a video server, Internet tools, and software environments for open-ended science investigations. The educational resources infrastructure will take advantage of the technology infrastructure to allow students and teachers to look up and exchange a broad range of interactive multimedia learning materials and scientific datasets. These resources will be developed by teachers, students, atmospheric scientists at UIUC, specialists in hands-on learning at the Exploratorium Science Museum, and other collaborators. The teacher development and supp ort infrastructure will take the form of workshops for teachers conducted by project staff, materials to support project-oriented pedagogy, and an emerging networked community of teachers sharing their experiences as they transform their teaching practices. The testbed evaluation and dissemination infrastructure will consist of a substantial research framework combining cognitive science, survey methods, and case studies to help expose the challenges for deploying high-bandwidth networking infrastructures for education and clarify the ways in which these infrastructures can improve the effectiveness of science education. The results of this research will be disseminated through a variety of traditional and network-based mechanisms to reach an audience of school administrators, policy makers, corporations, and researchers.

9454729豌豆本提案中的工作建立在通过协作可视化学习(COVIS)项目的基础上，这是一个国家科学基金会-AAT试验台。科维斯专注于三个领域--项目增强的科学学习、协作和科学可视化--作为转变科学教育的一种手段。其目标是利用下一代技术，在高度互动的网络协作环境中，利用富媒体通信和科学可视化工具，支持学习社区的形成和工作活动。NIE试验台将把有300名高中水平参与者的小规模工作科维斯模式转变为大型合作实验室，供不同环境下的数千名用户使用。在探索用于教育的网络基础设施时，必须认识到“基础设施”不仅仅包括网络连接和传输协议。为了有效，对网络学习社区的支持需要三个相互依赖的组成部分：技术基础设施、教育内容基础设施以及教师支持和发展基础设施。为了确定成本和成果的特点，试验床还需要一个评价和传播基础设施。技术基础设施将为学生和教师提供一个支持协作学习的环境，其中包括视频电话会议、协作软件、视频服务器、因特网工具和用于开放式科学调查的软件环境。教育资源基础设施将利用技术基础设施，使学生和教师能够查阅和交换广泛的交互式多媒体学习材料和科学数据集。这些资源将由教师、学生、UIUC的大气科学家、探索科学博物馆的动手学习专家和其他合作者开发。教师发展和支持基础设施将采取由项目工作人员为教师举办的讲习班、支持以项目为导向的教学法的材料以及一个新兴的教师网络社区的形式，这些教师在改变他们的教学实践时分享他们的经验。试验台评估和传播基础设施将由一个结合认知科学、调查方法和案例研究的实质性研究框架组成，以帮助揭示为教育部署高带宽网络基础设施的挑战，并阐明这些基础设施如何提高科学教育的有效性。这项研究的结果将通过各种传统的和基于网络的机制传播，以达到学校管理人员、政策制定者、公司和研究人员的受众。