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

建议编号：SES 99-10767主要调查者：R·斯蒂芬森在NSF的资助下，这项提议旨在创建一个有影响力的研讨会，重点关注如何通过在线教育加强成人的学习。为期两天的研讨会将汇集来自大学和企业界的开发人员，他们是为教育和企业环境中的成年人开发交互式、基于互联网的课程或课程材料的先驱。它的目标是推动这一领域向前发展，并将重点重新放在有效的教学上。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，审查的主题将是：n通过主动学习传达概念和理解基于概念的导航测试在线理解如何让学习者在线协作提供在线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、有效的在线教育内容的新方法。将从教育有效性和实用性的角度介绍、评估和比较每个主题的一些不同的创新方法。其目标是为有效的基于互联网的教学确定最好的、前沿的技术，并促进它们，以促进最先进的技术。讲习班的结果将以书籍的形式广泛传播，也将通过网络(通过会议过程的非同步连续视频广播)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.