Electronic Information Skills for Collaborative Learning in an Undergraduate Geography Curriculum

地理合作实验室是一个本科生、教师和图书馆员聚集在一起的地方，通过使用电子信息技能协同探索课程主题来加强学习。协作学习，作为一种主动学习的方法，让学生与教师和图书馆员在对等的基础上进行互动。通过使用电子信息技能学习实质性材料可以帮助学生既保留实质性材料又保留技能。一个全系范围的电子信息技能教学框架已经明确提出，以帮助地理教师选择适合他们课程的技能。来自三个非地理信息系统系的四门课程是这个项目的一部分：地理认识与健康、国际生产和贸易地理、地方经济和市场区域以及世界饥饿与资源开发。小组学习区域由3 - 5名学生的6个对话工作室组成，每个工作室都有一台奔腾电脑和21英寸的显示器，形成了协作的配置。SVGA投影仪和奔腾工作站支持小组项目演示显示。小组项目的个人工作在学者工作站-带有17 '显示显示器的奔腾机器上进行。本项目的评估工作由学校的几个单位提供支持，包括教育技术学院委员会、本科教育评估办公室、教学发展与研究中心和课堂支持服务。所有人都对通过电子信息技能开发用于协作学习的独特计算配置感兴趣。

The Geography Collaboratory is a place where undergraduate students, faculty, and librarians come together to enhance learning through synergistic exploration of course topics using electronic information skills. Collaborative learning, as an approach to active learning, engages students on a peer-to-peer basis with instructors and librarians. Learning substantive material through the use of electronic information skills helps students retain both substantive material and skills. A department-wide instructional framework for electronic information skills has been articulated to help geography faculty select skills appropriate to their courses. Four courses from the three non-geographic-information-systems departmental concentrations are part of this project: Geographic Understanding and Health, International Geographies of Production and Trade, Local Economies and Market Areas, and World Hunger and Resource Development. A group learning area composed of six conversation workpods for three to five students, each with a Pentium computer and 21` display monitor, form the configuration for collaboration. An SVGA projector and Pentium workstation support group project presentation displays. Individual work for group projects is carried out at scholar workstations_Pentium machines with 17` display monitors. Support for evaluation of this project comes from several units on campus, including the Faculty Council on Educational Technology, Undergraduate Education Office of Assessment, Center for Instructional Development and Research, and Classroom Support Services. All are interested in the unique computing configuration used for collaborative learning through electronic information skill development.