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

海洋学（43）WWW为高等教育中的分布式学习提供了令人兴奋的新机会。这个项目是建立在我们以前的工作，在技术为媒介的学习，通过建设一个虚拟的海洋学航行，把航海研究的兴奋到大学水平的海洋学课程。课件的虚拟航行旨在将联合收割机的体验式学习元素与随时随地访问的WWW相结合，以激发海洋科学的探究式学习。这次航行是从最近的海洋研究的巨大目录合成的主要倡议支持的NSF，NOAA和美国地质勘探局东太平洋沃茨，以及沿着海岸的加州和俄勒冈州在过去十年。我们正在模拟海上航行的经验（当然没有晕船），通过汇编我们在学术界，美国地质勘探局和美国国家海洋和大气管理局的研究同事社区内的海上探险的照片和视频。虚拟船上实验是在实际巡航之后进行的，包括数据采集和数据分析技术，以及通过简短的（8分钟或更少）流媒体音频/视频采访片段深入了解科学家的思维过程。我们还将随后的岸基分析作为“航行”的一部分。“这套以万维网为基础的课件，内容包括二维及三维图形、动画、文字及串流影音。监测海洋环境的实时数据嵌入每个模块，学生的学习评估和自我测试方法也嵌入每个模块。该项目利用自然的兴趣，通过地理重点加州和东太平洋，因为更多的学生在大学水平的海洋学课程在该州注册比在联盟的任何其他国家（私立机构，加州大学，科罗拉多州立大学系统，社区学院和高中）。一旦充分开发，虚拟航行将作为整个海洋学课程的基础，通过基于万维网的模块和在线讨论，特别是在越来越多的通过分布式学习提供的在线课程中。这些单元将有一个统一的界面，内部学习评估机制，涵盖海洋学的广度，并显示海洋学各科学学科之间的联系。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个模块，并在CSU系统的两个校区（SJSU和SFSU）以及至少两个社区学院（马林学院和另一个待选学院，可能是圣何塞城市学院或奥隆学院）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).