Development of Interactive Visualization Modules for Use in Geoscience Education

开发用于地球科学教育的交互式可视化模块

• 批准号: 9809817
• 负责人: Kent Kirkby
• 金额: $ 6.92万
• 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: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-01 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9809817&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Interactive; Visualization; Modules; Use

KIRKBY 9809817 Visualization modules will be developed for use in introductory Earth Science courses, as lecture demonstrations, laboratory exercises, or individual tutorials. Each module will consist of several three-dimensional visualizations and electronic text that can easily be combined or separated to fill a variety of educational uses. Students and instructors will be able to interactively manipulate the visual components in three, and often four, dimensions. Modules will run on either MacIntosh or IBM-compatible personal computers, and can be downloaded over the Internet or distributed as CD-ROMs. By translating the modules into HTML format, they will run on public software and be immune to future changes in Internet operating systems. Three initial modules will be developed the first summer that will be disseminated and extensively tested during the academic year. Modules will be distributed to over 2000 students in introductory geoscience courses at the University of Minnesota and to instructors at other institutions. Modules will be revised on the basis of student and instructor evaluations during the second start. In addition, the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Minnesota will host a series of workshops the second summer with local elementary and secondary education teachers to develop module versions for pre-college levels. A proposed cooperative venture with Encyclopedia Britannica will make the modules immediately available to over half the nation's universities and colleges that are current subscribers to Encyclopedia Britannica On-line. Free access to the modules will be maintained through servers at the University of Minnesota, which will retain all proprietary rights to the modules, text and visualizations. These initial modules are a pilot program. The University of Minnesota has been a pioneering institute in using computer visualizations in geoscience research. It now will use this expertise to develop materials fo r geoscience education. This pilot program is designed to prove the technical feasibility of exporting, supporting, and disseminating the modules, and more importantly to determine how to maximize their potential use by extensive classroom testing. Additional funding will be pursued to move beyond this pilot program into a larger series of modules, to incorporate more faculty, expand the program across institutional lines, and involve more undergraduate research assistants in geoscience visualization. A series of workshops will be initiated to promote visualization use in geoscience education (elementary through graduate) and to facilitate visualization efforts between institutions.

可视化模块将开发用于入门地球科学课程，作为讲座演示，实验室练习，或个人教程。每个模块将包括几个三维可视化和电子文本，可以很容易地组合或分离，以填补各种教育用途。学生和教师将能够交互式地操作三维，通常是四维的视觉组件。模块可以在MacIntosh或ibm兼容的个人电脑上运行，并且可以通过互联网下载或作为cd - rom分发。通过将这些模块翻译成HTML格式，它们将在公共软件上运行，并且不受互联网操作系统未来变化的影响。将在第一个夏季开发三个初步模块，并在学年期间进行传播和广泛测试。该模块将分发给明尼苏达大学地球科学入门课程的2000多名学生和其他机构的讲师。在第二次开始时，模块将根据学生和教师的评估进行修改。此外，明尼苏达大学地质与地球物理系将在第二个夏天与当地中小学教师一起举办一系列讲习班，以开发大学预科课程的模块版本。与《大英百科全书》拟议的合作项目将使这些模块立即提供给目前订阅《大英百科全书在线版》的一半以上的美国大学和学院。免费访问模块将通过明尼苏达大学的服务器进行维护，该服务器将保留模块、文本和可视化的所有专有权利。这些初始模块是一个试点项目。明尼苏达大学是在地球科学研究中使用计算机可视化的先驱机构。现在，它将利用这些专业知识开发用于地球科学教育的材料。该试点项目旨在证明输出、支持和推广这些模块的技术可行性，更重要的是通过广泛的课堂测试来确定如何最大限度地发挥其潜力。将寻求额外的资金，将这个试点项目扩展到更大的模块系列，纳入更多的教师，扩展跨机构的项目，并让更多的本科生研究助理参与地球科学可视化。将举办一系列研讨会，以促进可视化在地球科学教育中的应用（从小学到研究生），并促进机构之间的可视化工作。