US-Southern Africa Cooperative Research: International Distance Learning on the Environment of Southern Africa

美国-南部非洲合作研究：南部非洲环境国际远程学习

• 批准号: 0115438
• 负责人: Stephen Macko
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-15 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0115438&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Southern; Africa; Cooperative; Research

0115438Macko This award supports a pilot program for a one-year international distance learning project in the environmental sciences to be conducted by the University of Virginia (UVA), the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Mozambique, and the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) in South Africa. Each participating university will transmit some of the seminars via satellite broadcast (six from UVA and two each from UEM and WITS).Southern Africa has undergone and continues to experience large-scale land use/land cover changes largely brought about by human intervention with the environment. These changes can have environmental repercussions at the regional, continental, and global scales. Environmental education is essential for understanding these impacts on the global environment, and on the environment of the United States. This pilot project will explore the feasibility of exposing US and Southern African undergraduate and graduate students to leading edge technology and scientific content through a satellite-based seminar series in the environmental sciences. The seminar broadcasts will enable US students to have direct exposure to and interaction with regional expert lecturers and African students. The US and African students will also interact with each other through the internet, using the classroom internet tools provided by UVA. This project is expected to foster the transfer of knowledge and information on regional system level environmental problems by harnessing the existing broad spectrum of academic excellence within the partner universities. It is also expected to help create an internationally oriented generation of young environmental scientists in both the United States and Southern Africa. It is anticipated that up to 100 undergraduate and 20 graduate students from UVA will participate in these seminars, as well as approximately 40 students from Southern Africa. The project also includes visits by the US investigators to Southern Africa and visits by representatives from UEM and WITS to UVA for collaborative input to and evaluation of the program.

0115438 Macko该奖项支持由弗吉尼亚大学（UVA），莫桑比克的Eduardo Mondlane大学（UEM）和南非的Witwatersrand大学（WITS）进行的为期一年的环境科学国际远程学习项目的试点计划。每个参加的大学将通过卫星广播转播一些研讨会（弗吉尼亚大学六场，环境管理大学和世界综合技术学院各两场）南部非洲已经经历并将继续经历大规模的土地使用/土地覆盖变化，主要是由于人类对环境的干预。 这些变化可能在区域、大陆和全球范围内产生环境影响。 环境教育对于理解这些对全球环境和美国环境的影响至关重要。 这一试点项目将探讨通过环境科学卫星系列研讨会使美国和南部非洲的本科生和研究生接触前沿技术和科学内容的可行性。 研讨会广播将使美国学生能够直接接触到区域专家讲师和非洲学生并与他们互动。 美国和非洲学生还将通过互联网相互交流，使用UVA提供的课堂互联网工具。 预计该项目将通过利用伙伴大学内现有的广泛学术专长，促进区域系统一级环境问题的知识和信息转让。 它还有望帮助在美国和南部非洲培养面向国际的一代年轻环境科学家。 预计弗吉尼亚大学将有多达100名本科生和20名研究生以及来自南部非洲的大约40名学生参加这些研讨会。 该项目还包括美国调查人员访问南部非洲，以及UEM和WITS代表访问弗吉尼亚大学，以合作投入和评估该方案。