The Creation of Networded Interactive Tools for Teachin Astronomy and Physics

天文学和物理教学网络交互工具的创建

• 批准号: 9816444
• 负责人: Christopher Impey
• 金额: $ 18.6万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 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: 1998-10-01 至 2002-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9816444&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creation; Networded; Interactive; Tools; Teachin

The project, operated as a collaborative grant between the University of Oregon and the University Arizona, is developing interactive experiments and delivering them over the Internet. Most of these experiments are executed using the JAVA programming language extension to HTML document structure. Others use the VRML extension to HTML, which allows 3D representations of complex spatial relationships. These tools will be integrated into a fully-featured World Wide Web site which will act as a virtual classroom for about 5400 students per year at the University of Oregon and the University of Arizona. The Web site will have an electronic textbook, research data bases, supercomputer simulations, and animations. There is a critical need to engage introductory science students in an experimentation mode that will lead to student-driven inquiry. This project aims (1) to allow students to use active experimentation to learn abstract topics, (2) to incorporate scientifically realistic modes of inquiry into instructional technology, (3) to build a library of experiments that is adaptable to any curriculum, and (4) to construct a Web site that can be customized for use by any instructor. Instructional technology can be a very cost-effective means of achieving our main pedagogical goal: teaching science as a discovery process that relies heavily on experimental results, not memorized facts and figures. The project also has distance education dimensions, involves the cooperation of institutions for curriculum development, and uses emerging technologies to engage the students in this new learning mode. The potential audience for these tolls extends to the 500,000 physics and astronomy students at two and four year colleges nationwide and more students at the high school level. The work builds on an already highly successful implementation of hypertext based course material, in which professional data, scientific animation, and links to other resources are all organized into a network textbook tha t becomes the lecture and learning tool that students see in class and access out of class. Building more interactivity into this curriculum is both the next logical and most critical step.

该项目是俄勒冈州大学和亚利桑那大学之间的合作资助，正在开发互动实验并通过互联网交付。 这些实验中的大多数是使用Java编程语言扩展到HTML文档结构执行的。 其他人使用HTML的VRML扩展，允许复杂空间关系的3D表示。 这些工具将被纳入一个功能齐全的万维网网站，该网站将作为俄勒冈州大学和亚利桑那大学每年约5400名学生的虚拟教室。 该网站将有一个电子教科书，研究数据库，超级计算机模拟和动画。 有一个迫切需要从事入门科学的学生在实验模式，将导致学生驱动的调查。 本计画的目的是：（1）让学生利用主动实验来学习抽象的主题;（2）将科学上现实的探究模式融入教学技术;（3）建立一个适用于任何课程的实验图书馆;（4）建立一个可供任何教师使用的网站。 教学技术可以是实现我们主要教学目标的一种非常具有成本效益的手段：将科学教学作为一个发现过程，在很大程度上依赖于实验结果，而不是记忆的事实和数字。 该项目还包括远程教育方面，涉及各机构合作编制课程，并利用新兴技术使学生参与这一新的学习模式。 这些通行费的潜在受众扩展到全国两年制和四年制大学的50万物理学和天文学学生以及更多的高中学生。 这项工作建立在一个已经非常成功的实施超文本为基础的课程材料，其中专业数据，科学动画，并链接到其他资源都组织成一个网络教科书，成为讲座和学习工具，学生在课堂上看到，并在课堂外访问。 在这门课程中建立更多的互动性既是下一个合乎逻辑的步骤，也是最关键的步骤。