Tectonica Interactive: A Guided Interactive Hypermedia Tutoring System For Plate Tectonics

Tectonica Interactive：板块构造引导式交互式超媒体辅导系统

• 批准号: 9652993
• 负责人: Christopher Condit
• 金额: $ 14万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-06-01 至 2000-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9652993&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Tectonica; Interactive; Guided; Hypermedia; Tutoring

Many of the critical problems facing our society, including limited resources, global climate and environmental change, and natural disasters, can only be addressed by leadership and a population that has a good grasp of the fundamental scientific concepts involved, all of which are addressed in an integrated and interdisciplinary manner in geology. Yet geology education is far from what it should be. In this age of increasing technological sophistication, rapidly evolving information, and the need for more global awareness, innovative approaches to teaching geology are needed. We propose to develop a computer-based exploration and learning system which will focus on plate tectonics, the uniting paradigm of geology. The PI's include a geologist with experience publishing interactive multimedia software for geology, and a computer scientist with experience developing intelligent tutorials. The system, which we call "Tectonica Interactive" (TI), will include adaptive ("intelligent") tutorials, guided hypermedia exploration, interactive simulations, and visually rich animations, graphics, and 3-D animation. The content in the program will have two primary per- spectives: locations and phenomena. Locations are actual geographic locations, and Phenomena are geologic principles, processes, and conceptual models. TI's hyperlinks and navigation guid- ance will make it easy for students to explore phenomena associated with a location, and locations which exemplify phenomena. Several learning modes will be available, ranging from more directed tutorials to student-controlled exploration. Because we store a model of student progress and mastery, the program will be able to accommodate users at many levels, from intermediate school earth science students through those in introductory college-level courses, and make intelli- gent decisions regarding hints, explanations, etc. Evaluation will occur at a number of university and high school sites, and distribution of the software will be by CD-ROM and the Worl d Wide Web. We anticipate that TI will be included by textbook publishers along uith the text.

我们社会面临的许多关键问题，包括有限的资源、全球气候和环境变化以及自然灾害，只能由领导层和掌握所涉及的基本科学概念的人民来解决，所有这些问题都在地质学中以综合和跨学科的方式解决。然而，地质学教育远未达到应有的水平。在这个时代的日益复杂的技术，迅速发展的信息，并需要更多的全球意识，创新的方法来教学地质学是必要的。我们建议开发一个以计算机为基础的探索和学习系统，将重点放在板块构造，地质学的统一范式。PI包括一位地质学家，他有出版地质学交互式多媒体软件的经验，还有一位计算机科学家，他有开发智能教程的经验。该系统，我们称之为“Tectonica互动”（TI），将包括自适应（“智能”）教程，引导超媒体探索，交互式模拟，以及视觉丰富的动画，图形和3-D动画。该计划中的内容将有两个主要视角：地点和现象。位置是实际的地理位置，现象是地质原理，过程和概念模型。TI的超链接和导航指南将使学生很容易探索与位置相关的现象，以及解释现象的位置。将提供几种学习模式，从更直接的教程到学生控制的探索。因为我们存储了学生进步和掌握的模型，该程序将能够适应不同层次的用户，从中学地球科学学生到大学入门课程的学生，并就提示、解释等做出明智的决定。评估将在一些大学和高中网站进行，软件的分发将通过光盘和万维网进行。我们预计TI将被教科书出版商沿着纳入正文。