Teaching Mathematics, Science and Technology on the Internet: Strategies, Resources and Guidance Workshop

有证据表明，学习的环境正在发生变化，远程学习正在成为进一步接受高等教育的可行选择。技术、学术研究、教学创新的进步，普通大学生年龄、成熟度和个人承诺的增加，以及地理和人口学的变化，导致了学习环境结构的重大变化。这个研讨会的目的是帮助参与者和他们的机构从机构、教授和学生的角度提供更好的在线课程。通过让主要来自可能没有机会与其他人分享远程教育问题和关切的研究成果的较小机构的教师熟悉，我们还将为我们的参与者提供一个未来研究的网络。讲习班将包括关于在线教育的以下内容：关于如何教授数学和科学课程的讨论和项目，以及相关的一般性问题，以及大量实验室时间，包括指导和开放。在整个项目期间，Merlin的成功在线教育系统Merlin将被用作工作范例。我们的后续活动将包括对参与者进行侦察，分享他们如何将所提供的信息纳入其课程的结果，一个传播资料包，其中包括一盘60分钟编辑的讲习班录像带，两份研究论文，以及在互联网上哪里可以找到关于虚拟大学的资源的信息。此外，我们将建立一个关于在线课程教学的信息库，并将在因特网上提供。本系列研讨会的第二年将使用远程教学，让参与者从学生的角度体验这种教学模式的额外优势。

There is evidence that the context for learning is undergoing a metamorphosis, and that distance learning is becoming a viable option for furthering one's higher education. Advances in technology, academic research, pedagogical innovation, the increase in the chronological age, maturity level and personal commitments of the average college student, and geography and demography have led to a substantial alteration in the structure of the learning environment. The purpose of this workshop is to aid the participants and their institutions to deliver better online courses from the points of view of the institutions, the professors, and the students. By familiarizing the faculty primarily from smaller institutions who might not have the opportunity to readily share research about the issues and concerns of distance learning with others, we will also be providing a network for future research for our participants. The workshop will include the following with respect to online education: discussions and projects of how to teach mathematics and science courses, and of associated generic issues, and a substantial component of lab time, both guided and open. Mercy's successful online educational system, MerLIN, will be used as a working example throughout the duration of the project. Our follow-through activities will include a reconnoitering of the participants to share results of how they integrated the information provided into their courses, a dissemination package consisting of a sixty-minute edited video tape of the workshop, two study papers, and information of where to find resources on the Internet with regard to the virtual university. In addition we will establish a repository of information regarding the teaching of online courses that will be available on the Internet. The second year of this workshop series will be taught using distance learning giving participants the added advantage of experiencing this instructional mode from the student's perspective.