Workshop on Improving Internet-Based Education for Adult Learners in Universities and Corporations

摘要提案编号：SES 99- 10767主要研究者：R.斯蒂芬森与美国国家科学基金会的资金，这一建议旨在创建一个有影响力的研讨会，重点是如何加强学习的成人通过在线教育。为期两天的研讨会将汇集来自大学和企业界的开发人员，他们是在教育和企业环境中为成人建立互动式、基于互联网的课程或课程材料的先驱。它的目标是推动该领域向前发展，并将其重点带回有效的教学和学习。在线课程的开发者是研讨会的目标受众，所考虑的问题将是对教育效果影响最大的问题，也是这些开发者最关心的问题。具体而言，所研究的主题将是：通过主动学习传达概念和理解基于概念的导航测试理解让学习者合作的方法提供实验室经验的要素评估什么决定教育效果以及如何衡量建立互动的，有效的在线教育内容的新方法。目标是确定有效的互联网教学的最佳、最先进的技术，并加以推广，以提高最新水平。讲习班的成果将以书籍形式和通过网络（通过异步流式视频广播会议记录）广泛传播。

AbstractProposal Number: SES 99-10767Principal Investigator: R. Stephenson With NSF funding, this proposal seeks to create an influential workshop focused on ways to enhance learning for adults via online education. The two-day workshop will bring together developers from the university and corporate worlds who are pioneers in building interactive, Internet-based courses or course materials for adults in educational and corporate settings. Its goal is to move the field forward and bring its focus back to effective teaching and learning. The developers of online classes are the workshop's target audience, and the issues considered will be those with the greatest impact on educational effectiveness and of greatest concern to such developers. Specifically, the topics examined will be:n conveying concepts and understanding through active learningn concept-based navigationn testing understanding onlinen ways to get learners collaborating onlinen providing elements of a laboratory experience onlinen assessing what determines educational effectiveness and how it is measuredn novel ways to build interactive, effective, online educational content.A number of different, innovative approaches to each topic will be presented, evaluated and compared from the point of view of educational effectiveness and practicality. The goal is to identify the best, leading-edge techniques for effective internet-based teaching and promote them so as to advance the state of the art. The results of the workshop will be widely disseminated, both as a book, and via the Web (via asynchronous streaming video broadcast of the proceedings) which will be widely publicized.