A Virtual Research Environment for Social Science Students

为社会科学研究生提供的虚拟研究环境

• 批准号: 9650499
• 负责人: Ronald Anderson
• 金额: $ 24.97万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 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: 1996-07-01 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9650499&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Virtual; Research; Environment; Social; Science

We are developing a prototype system for social science research methods instruction in a virtual laboratory environment. The lab is designed to address a number of common problems in teaching social science research methods to undergraduates: student motivation, access to learning and methods software, the integration of all stages of the research process into methods courses, and the limited variety of research experiences available. The virtual lab, which we call the Virtual Institute for Social Science Research (VISSR), is used by social science students as a distributive computing (client-server) application that provides integrated access to essential tutorials, basic data collection and analysis routines, and, perhaps more important, live interaction with others over networks and the Internet. Once developed, the client-server software bundle will be made available over the Internet, as well as from other media.

我们正在开发一个在虚拟实验室环境下进行社会科学研究方法教学的原型系统。该实验室旨在解决向本科生教授社会科学研究方法的一些常见问题：学生动机、获取学习和方法软件的途径、将研究过程的所有阶段整合到方法课程中，以及可用研究经验的有限种类。这个虚拟实验室，我们称之为虚拟社会科学研究所(VISSR)，被社会科学专业的学生用作分布式计算(客户端-服务器)应用程序，提供对基本教程、基本数据收集和分析例程的集成访问，或许更重要的是，通过网络和互联网与其他人进行实时交互。一旦开发完成，客户-服务器软件捆绑包将通过互联网以及其他媒体提供。