ThermoNet: Interactive Internet Resources for Introductory Engineering Thermodynamics

来自工程学院和教育学院的教师将合作制作和评估可通过互联网交付的交互式多媒体学习资源，用于介绍工程热力学的教学。 该项目将建立两个相关的资源：万维网网址和万维网新闻组。 使用网页主页，学生将从常见问题（FAQ）列表中分支到各种学习模块，每个模块将联合收割机结合文字和图形来解释热力学中常见的混淆点。该网站还将包括一个到新闻组的“热链接”。 将建立一个有主持人的新闻组，热力学学生可以在其中发表问题或评论，并从彼此和教师那里获得帮助。 除了提供有关热力学问题的“虚拟咨询”的动态资源外，新闻组还将成为项目团队即时和持续反馈的宝贵来源，以确定学生之间的共同困惑点，以开发未来的学习模块。 该项目将建立在一个大型档案馆的视频，声音，动画和静态图形的热力学主题，已在以前的国家科学基金会赞助的项目编制。 新开发的因特网传送工具，如Java和Shock wave，将用来提供真正的交互式多媒体能力，这种能力迄今为止太过繁琐，无法有效地联机传送。

Faculty from the Colleges of Engineering and Education will collaborate to produce and evaluate interactive multimedia learning resources deliverable over the Internet for instruction in introductory engineering thermodynamics. The project will create two related resources: a site on the World Wide Web and a UseNet newsgroup. Using the Web home page, students will branch from a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) to various learning modules, each of which will combine text and graphics to explain conceptual points that are common points of confusion in thermodynamics. The Web site will also include a "hot link" to the newsgroup. A moderated newsgroup will be established in which thermodynamics students can post questions or comments and obtain help from one another and from instructors. In addition to providing a dynamic resource of "virtual consulting" on thermodynamics questions and problems, the newsgroup will be a valuable source of instantaneous and continuous feedback to the project team in identifying common points of confusion among students for development of future learning modules. The project will build on a large archive of video, sound, animation and still graphics of thermodynamic subject matter which has been compiled in a previous NSF- sponsored project. Newly developed Internet delivery tools such as Java and Shock wave will be used to provide true interactive multimedia capabilities that have hitherto been too cumbersome to effectively deliver on-line.