Creating an Interactive, Collaborative, Groupware supported Learning Environment for Computing Sciences

为计算科学创建交互式、协作、组件支持的学习环境

• 批准号: 9651044
• 负责人: Doris Lidtke
• 金额: $ 7.44万
• 依托单位: Towson University
• 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: 1996-06-15 至 1999-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9651044&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; Interactive; Collaborative; Groupware; supported

Industry demands that graduates of programs in the computing sciences be able to work collaboratively in teams. However, students have often fallen short of the industry's expectations in this regard. Today, most universities have only one or two courses in which students work in small groups. This project is making use of an initial collaborative learning laboratory course with emphasis placed on teamwork, effectiveness of communication, and cooperation in problem solving. Students work together in small groups with the idea that, in later courses, they will gain experience in working with larger teams made up of people with a range of backgrounds and abilities. Since research shows that students' learning is improved by active involvement, this project uses an interactive-collaborative learning environment, building on several research projects which have investigated collaborative and interactive learning. Students meet regularly with the instructor in a laboratory situation. Very brief lectures are used to introduce the topics, while intensive laboratory work is used to explore the topics actively. The laboratory has modern groupware and a user-friendly software development environment with a physical arrangement that supports collaborative activities. This development environment also supports work conducted at remote sites.

工业界要求计算机科学专业的毕业生能够在团队中协同工作。然而，在这方面，学生们往往达不到行业的期望。今天，大多数大学只有一到两门课程，学生们在小组中学习。这个项目是利用一个初步的协作学习实验课程，重点放在团队合作，有效的沟通和合作解决问题。学生们在小组中一起工作，因为在以后的课程中，他们将获得与由不同背景和能力的人组成的更大的团队合作的经验。由于研究表明学生的学习通过积极参与得到改善，本项目使用了一个互动-协作学习环境，建立在几个研究合作和互动学习的研究项目的基础上。学生们定期在实验室的情况下与老师见面。通过非常简短的讲座来介绍主题，而通过密集的实验室工作来积极探索主题。实验室拥有现代化的群件和用户友好的软件开发环境，具有支持协作活动的物理安排。这个开发环境还支持在远程站点进行的工作。