The Internet and WWW: Potential Educational Uses

互联网和万维网：潜在的教育用途

• 批准号: 9814141
• 负责人: Susan Vernon-Gerstenfeld
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 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 1999-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9814141&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Internet; WWW; Potential; Educational; Uses

This project will explore present and potential future use of the Internet and World Wide Web in undergraduate SMET education. It will focus, in part, on the barriers to the use of electronic technologies in education and will describe the characteristics of adopters and non-adopters, including the characteristics of institutions or situations that promote or inhibit adoption. A team of three or four engineering, science, or management students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute will work full time at NSF headquarters for two months under the guidance of full time WPI faculty and with the consultation of NSF personnel. The team will use Rogers' model of the adoption of innovation as a starting point. Because an explicit goal of this project is to provide research experience for the students, they will participate in a research methods course prior to arriving in Washington. Their preparation will include developing a complete literature review of their subject and a description and justification of appropriate methodology -- for example, the use of focus groups. They will also discuss how they will organize and analyze their data. The literature review and methodology will form part of a research proposal that they will submit to their professors and DUE personnel before undertaking the on-site portion of their work. The outcome of the project will be a substantive report that will be submitted by the students to their faculty for academic credit as well as providing input to NSF. Students are expected to develop skills in formal presentations, in research proposal development and writing, and in the systematic analysis of qualitative and quantitative data. In addition, they will have participated in serious research on a topic that has major implications for education in this country and abroad and for education public policy.

该项目将探讨目前和将来在本科生中小企业教育中使用互联网和万维网的可能性。 它将部分侧重于在教育中使用电子技术的障碍，并将描述采用者和不采用者的特点，包括促进或抑制采用的机构或情况的特点。 来自伍斯特理工学院的三到四名工程、科学或管理专业的学生将在NSF总部全职工作两个月，在全职WPI教师的指导下，并与NSF人员协商。 该团队将使用罗杰斯的创新采用模型作为起点。 因为这个项目的一个明确目标是为学生提供研究经验，他们将在抵达华盛顿之前参加一个研究方法课程。 编写报告的工作将包括对报告主题进行全面的文献审查，并说明适当方法的理由-例如，使用重点小组。 他们还将讨论如何组织和分析他们的数据。 文献综述和方法将构成研究提案的一部分，他们将在进行现场工作之前提交给他们的教授和DUE人员。 该项目的成果将是一个实质性的报告，将由学生提交给他们的教师的学术信贷，以及提供输入到NSF。 学生应培养在正式演讲，研究提案的开发和写作，以及定性和定量数据的系统分析的技能。 此外，他们还将参与对国内外教育和教育公共政策具有重大影响的主题的认真研究。