Integrating the Electronic Desktop into the Natural Science Curriculum

将电子桌面融入自然科学课程

• 批准号: 9455428
• 负责人: Robert Desharnais
• 金额: $ 21.88万
• 依托单位: California State L A University Auxiliary Services Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-02-15 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9455428&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Electronic; Desktop; into; Natural

This project's strategy is to use the power of advanced workstation technology to improve the way science is taught and learned in a multicultural university. Project activities will have four faculty persons from biology, chemistry and the earth sciences collaborating to develop three new interdisciplinary courses, write 29 interactive science visualization courseware applications, revise instructional delivery, prepare a variety of instructional materials that can be used at other institutions, integrate Internet resources into the classroom, and create a new class of instructional applications that can be executed remotely over the Internet using the World-Wide-Web protocol. This project will annually involve about 200 students who are science majors and 500 general education students. The goals are to increase retention of majors and the scientific literacy of non-majors. Courses will be offered in a highly visual, user-friendly, computer-based learning environment that is interactive, powerful and intuitive. Language barriers are less of a problem in an interactive environment utilizing pictures, animations, sounds, graphs, words and numbers where science can be seen, heard and explored. More fully engaging students in thinking and problem solving will allow them to learn better. Also, techniques, concepts and demonstrations which are too expensive, dangerous or do not lend themselves to traditional modes of instruction can be taught despite pedagogical obstacles. Project results will be disseminated through publication, professional presentations, and be made available nationally over the Internet.

该项目的战略是利用先进的工作站技术的力量来改善多元文化大学中科学的教学和学习方式。项目活动将有来自生物学、化学和地球科学的四名教师合作开发三门新的跨学科课程，编写29个交互式科学可视化课件应用程序，修改教学内容，编写可在其他机构使用的各种教学材料，将互联网资源整合到课堂上，并创建一类新的教学应用程序，这些应用程序可以使用万维网协议通过因特网远程执行。该项目每年将涉及约200名理科专业学生和500名普通教育学生。目标是提高专业人员的保留率和非专业人员的科学素养。 课程将在一个高度直观、用户友好、基于计算机的学习环境中提供，该环境具有互动性、功能强大和直观性。在利用图片、动画、声音、图表、文字和数字的互动环境中，语言障碍不太成问题，因为在这种环境中，科学可以被看到、听到和探索。更充分地让学生参与思考和解决问题将使他们学得更好。此外，尽管存在教学障碍，但也可以教授过于昂贵、危险或不适合传统教学模式的技术、概念和示范。项目成果将通过出版物、专业介绍和在全国范围内通过因特网提供来传播。