The Geography Virtual Department: Building and Linking Geography Curricula Nationally Using the Internet and Worldwide Web

地理虚拟系：利用互联网和万维网在全国范围内构建和链接地理课程

• 批准号: 9554947
• 负责人: Kenneth Foote
• 金额: $ 30.36万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-01-01 至 1999-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9554947&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Geography; Virtual; Department; Building; Linking

Funds are requested to convene workshops and seminars to plan and develop ilstructional materials that will use the Internet and Worldwide Web to interlink the cufficula of geography departments throughout the United States. The goal of the project is to build high quality curriculum materials including "electronic" textbooks and interactive modules that: 1) span the entire undergraduate curriculum, 2) exploit further the potential of existing Internet resources, and 3) take full advantage of the hypermedia format of the Worldwide Web. The project will allow geographers at many universities to work toward common goals and share the time and expense of developing the sorts of hypermedia curriculum materials that are likely to become the hallmark of higher education in the twenty-first century. The project addresses three important challenges facing contemporary higher education: 1) to provide faculty with the skills needed to create hypermedia instructional materials and use the Worldwide Web effectively, 2) to set goals for the development of the discipline-specific educational resources that will support the emergence of "virtual" departments and even "virtual" universities, and 3) to help transform the Worldwide Web from an adhoc and improvised collection of materials into an orderly and systematically developed resource for education and research. To reach these goals, two week workshops will be held at the University of Texas during the summers of 1996, 1997, and 1998 to bring together thirty faculty from universities across the nation. Participants will set goals for the development of new materials, gain skills in hypermedia authoring, and write the first modules. One day seminars will also be held at the national meetings of the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers to: 1) evaluate and refine materials, 2) present the new materials to a larger professional audience, and 3) offer hands-on training.

请拨资金举办讲习班和研讨会，以规划和编写教材，利用互联网络和万维网将美国各地地理系的教材相互联系起来。该项目的目标是建立高质量的课程材料，包括“电子”教科书和互动模块，这些材料包括：1)跨越整个本科课程；2)进一步开发现有互联网资源的潜力；3)充分利用万维网的超媒体格式。该项目将使许多大学的地理学家朝着共同的目标努力，并分享开发各种超媒体课程材料的时间和费用，这些材料可能成为21世纪高等教育的标志。该项目解决了当代高等教育面临的三个重要挑战：1)为教师提供创建超媒体教学材料和有效使用万维网所需的技能；2)为开发特定学科的教育资源设定目标，以支持“虚拟”院系甚至“虚拟”大学的出现；3)帮助将万维网从临时和临时的材料收集转变为有序和系统地开发的教育和研究资源。为了实现这些目标，将于1996年、1997年和1998年夏季在德克萨斯大学举行为期两周的讲习班，汇集来自全国各大学的30名教员。参与者将为新材料的开发设定目标，获得超媒体创作技能，并编写第一个模块。在国家地理教育委员会和美国地理学家协会的全国会议上也将举行为期一天的研讨会，目的是：1)评估和改进材料，2)向更多的专业观众展示新材料，3)提供实践培训。