Virtual Voyage - A WWW-based Expedition in Ocean Science Education

海洋学(43)WWW为高等教育的分布式学习提供了令人兴奋的新机会。这个项目是在我们以前在技术中介学习方面的工作的基础上进行的，通过构建一个虚拟的海洋航程，将出海研究的兴奋带入大学级别的海洋学课程。课程的虚拟之旅旨在将体验式学习的元素与WWW的随时随地访问相结合，以促进海洋科学中的探究性学习。这次航行是根据过去十年来加州和俄勒冈州海岸的大量海洋研究综合而成的，这些研究得到了NSF、NOAA和美国地质勘探局的主要倡议的支持，东太平洋的水域和加利福尼亚州和俄勒冈州的海岸。我们正在通过编辑来自学术界、美国地质勘探局和美国国家海洋和大气局的研究同事的海上探险的照片和视频来模拟出海体验(当然没有晕船)。虚拟船上实验以实际航行为模式，包括数据采集和数据分析技术，以及通过简短(8分钟以下)流音频/视频采访片段深入了解科学家的思维过程。我们还包括随后的岸基分析，作为“航程”的一部分。基于WWW的课件包含2-D和3-D图形、动画、文本和流媒体音频/视频。每个模块都嵌入了监测海洋环境的实时数据，以及学生的学习、评估和自我测试的方法。该项目通过加利福尼亚州和东太平洋的地理中心利用自然利益，因为该州参加大学水平海洋学课程的学生比联邦任何其他州(私立机构、加州大学、加州大学系统、社区大学和高中)都多。一旦完全开发，虚拟航行将作为整个海洋学课程的基础，通过基于WWW的模块和在线讨论，特别是在通过分布式学习提供的越来越多的在线课程中。除了显示海洋学各科学学科之间的联系外，这些单元还将有一个统一的界面、学习评估的内部机制和海洋学的广度。在这个项目中，我们正在开发计划的12个虚拟航行模块中的4个，在CSU系统的两个校区(SJSU和SFSU)以及至少两个社区学院(Marin学院和另一个待选择的学院，可能是圣何塞城市学院或Ohlone学院)进行测试/评估。

Oceanography (43) The WWW provides exciting, new opportunities in distributed learning in higher education. This project is building on our previous work in technology-mediated learning by bringing the excitement of sea-going research into a college-level oceanography course through the construction of a virtual oceanographic voyage. The virtual voyage of courseware aims to combine elements of experiential learning with the anytime, anywhere access of the WWW to stimulate inquiry-based learning in the ocean sciences. The voyage is synthesized from the vast catalog of recent ocean research supported by major initiatives of NSF, NOAA and the USGS waters of the eastern Pacific, and along the coasts of California and Oregon over the past decade. We are simulating the sea-going experience (sans seasickness of course) by compiling photographs and video of sea-going expeditions from within our community of research colleagues in academia, the USGS and NOAA. Virtual shipboard experiments are patterned after actual cruises and include the technologies of data acquisition and data analysis as well as providing insight into the thought process of scientists through short (8 minutes of less) streaming audio/video interview segments. We are also including subsequent shore-based analyses as part of the "voyage." The WWW-based courseware contains 2-D and 3-D graphics, animations, text and streaming audio/video. Real-time data for monitoring the marine environment is embedded in each module as are methods of learning assessment and self-testing for the students. The project takes advantage of the natural interest through a geographic focus of California and the eastern Pacific, since more students are enrolled in college-level oceanography courses in that state than in any other state in the union (private institutions, UC, CSU system, community colleges and high school). Once fully developed, the virtual voyage will be used as the basis for entire oceanography courses, both through WWW-based modules and online discussions, especially in the growing number of online courses offered through distributed learning. The modules will have a uniform interface, internal mechanisms of learning assessment and span the breadth of oceanography, in addition to showing the linkages between the scientific disciplines of oceanography. In this project we are developing four out of the planned 12 modules of the virtual voyage with testing/assessment at two campuses of the CSU systems (SJSU and SFSU), as well as at least two community colleges (College of Marin and one other to be selected, probably San Jose City College or Ohlone College).