Towards the Lifelong Use of Information Technology

该项目支持开发一个本科生工作站实验室，该实验室支持封闭(结构化教室)使用、开放使用以及从远程位置通过Internet访问。该实验室正在用于一门名为《信息技术》的新课程，该课程为非专业学生提供了支持终身学习和信息技术(IT)使用的工具。这项建议是基于这样一种信念，即社会和技术的加速变化意味着未来的工人必须是信息技术的有效使用者。组成IT的计算机和网络现在所能做的远不止是数值计算和符号处理。它们是加强沟通以及个人和合作解决问题的工具。更深刻的是，IT为学习和应用解决几乎所有学科中的问题所需的心理模型提供了基础。它既是变革的推动者，也是适应变革所需的终身学习的助力。该实验室的目标是帮助使信息技术成为广大学生科学和人文教育的重要组成部分，但不是独联体专业的学生，他们已经在这项技术方面打下了很好的基础。该实验室的硬件由28台高端PC工作站、一台服务器和辅助设备(摄像机、文件扫描仪、激光打印机)组成。该软件由Windows NT、WWW和Notes服务器、Microsoft Office Professional以及一些用于多媒体和高级应用程序的软件包组成。一些由社会科学、化学、英语和工程学等学科的研究人员开发的案例研究正在展示中。学生建立在这些案例研究的基础上，从而获得一种使用IT解决现实世界问题的感觉。

This project supports the development of an undergraduate workstation laboratory that supports closed (structured classroom) use, open use, and access from remote locations over the Internet. The laboratory is being used for a new course, CIS100: Information Technology, that is giving nonmajors the tools to support lifelong learning and the use of Information Technology (IT). The proposal is based on the belief that accelerating changes in society and technology mean that the worker of the future must be an effective user of IT. The computers and networks that constitute IT are now capable of much more than numerical computation and symbolic processing. They are tools for enhanced communication and individual and cooperative problem solving. More profoundly, IT provides a basis for learning and applying mental models needed to solve problems in virtually every discipline. IT is both an agent of change and an aid in the lifelong learning required to adapt to change. The objective of the laboratory is to help make IT an essential component of the scientific and humanistic education of a broad range of students, but not CIS-majors, who are already well grounded in this technology. The hardware for the laboratory consists of 28 high-end PC workstations, a server, and auxiliary equipment (video cameras, document scanners, laser printers). The software consists of Windows NT, WWW and Notes servers, Microsoft Office Professional, and a number of packages for multimedia and advanced applications. A number of case studies developed by researchers in disciplines such as social science, chemistry, English, and engineering are being presented. Students build on these case studies, thus acquiring a feeling for the use of IT for solving real-world problems.