LUCID-A New Model for Computer-Assisted Instruction in Chemistry

为了应对社会，技术和世界经济的快速变化，学生需要成为快速学习者，批判性思维者和问题解决者。他们需要精通计算机，善于沟通，团队合作，管理和评估。超越单一学科的基本概念的综合知识是必不可少的。为了获得这些属性，学生需要积极参与学习，思考，解决问题，与他人合作，交流他们的成就，评估他人的成就，反思他们的表现，制定改进策略，并记录他们的成长。传统的教学方法和支持它们的软件产品侧重于演示和评估，而不是解决这些问题。 我们正在开发一种新的计算机辅助教学模式。 这一模式体现在一套名为LUCID的活动和工具中，即通过基于计算机的交互式发现进行学习和理解。1.开发创新的基于Web的工具，可供教育软件开发人员使用，以支持基于团队的学习，报告，同行和自我评估活动。2.提供一系列以网络为基础的活动，涵盖整个普通化学全年的代表性主题，作为在课程开发和教学中使用此类工具的模式。3.开发创作工具，以支持其他学科的类似材料的开发。为了实现这些目标，我们正在移植我们目前的PC局域网为基础的软件到Web，封装我们的功能在Java组件，开发数据库的课程元素和学生的工作，并改善和扩展我们目前的活动。我们的受众包括中学和大专学生、教师、课程开发人员和教育软件开发人员。虽然这个项目的主要目的是将技术融入教育，但我们的活动设计解决了多样性问题，我们的传播计划涉及教师发展。 来自其他一些机构的教师正在与我们合作开发，实施，评估和传播正在制作的材料。

To be prepared for the rapid changes occurring in society, technology, and the world economy, students need to become quick learners, critical thinkers, and problem solvers. They need to become computer literate and skillful in communicating, teamwork, management, and assessment. An integrated knowledge of fundamental concepts beyond a single discipline is essential. To acquire these attributes, students need to actively engage in learning, thinking, problem solving, working with others, communicating their accomplishments, assessing the accomplishments of others, reflecting on their performance, developing strategies to improve, and documenting their growth. Traditional teaching methods and the software products supporting them are focused on presentation and evaluation and are not addressing these issues. We are developing a new model for computer-assisted instruction. This model is embodied in a set of activities and tools named LUCID, for Learning and Understanding through Computer-based Interactive Discovery.These issues are being addressed through the objectives of this project. 1. Develop innovative Web-based tools that can be used by educational software developers to support team-based learning, reporting, and peer and self-assessment activities. 2. Provide a series of Web-based activities encompassing representative topics across a full year of general chemistry to serve as a model for employing such tools in curriculum development and teaching. 3. Develop authoring tools to support the development of similar materials in other disciplines.To achieve these objectives we are porting our current PC LAN-based software to the Web, encapsulating our functionality in Java components, developing databases for curricular elements and student work, and improving and extending our current set of activities. Our audience includes secondary and post-secondary students, teachers, curriculum developers, and educational software developers. While the primary thrust of this project is to integrate technology into education, our activity design addresses issues of diversity, and our dissemination plan involves faculty development. Faculty from a number of other institutions are working with us to develop, implement, assess, and disseminate the materials that are being produced.