New Technologies for Teaching Introductory Astronomy

天文学入门教学新技术

• 批准号: 0205824
• 负责人: Christopher Impey
• 金额: $ 30.5万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-01 至 2006-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0205824&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; Technologies; Teaching; Introductory; Astronomy

This project involves research on new instructional technologies, for use in teaching astronomy to non-science majors. The central goal is to involve students in research-level astronomy data sets, so that they can understand the process of science by active exploration. Other goals are to use models and simulation to convey complex or abstract concepts, and to allow students to explore multimedia astronomy content in flexible ways. The major areas of focus for content development are (1) interactive Java applets that use real data to teach basic physics and astronomy concepts, (2) virtual worlds that allow a 3D exploration of the universe on various scales, (3) a natural language "expert system" to answer questions across the subject matter, with associated testing materials, and (4) a data architecture to allow the flexible delivery of this content over the Internet, via voice portals, and to a variety of devices on the wireless web. The overall goal is a rich learning environment that measures performance and can adapt to different student interests and learning styles. The tools developed in this project have an immediate application for distance learning, and the technologies and modes of delivery can readily be applied across other science subjects.

该项目涉及研究新的教学技术，用于向非理科专业的学生教授天文学。中心目标是让学生参与研究级天文学数据集，以便他们能够通过积极探索来理解科学的过程。其他目标是使用模型和模拟来传达复杂或抽象的概念，并允许学生以灵活的方式探索多媒体天文学内容。内容开发的主要重点领域是（1）使用真实的数据教授基本物理学和天文学概念的交互式Java小程序，（2）允许在各种尺度上对宇宙进行3D探索的虚拟世界，（3）回答跨主题问题的自然语言“专家系统”，以及相关的测试材料，以及（4）数据体系结构，以允许通过因特网、经由语音门户以及到无线web上的各种设备来灵活地递送该内容。总体目标是一个丰富的学习环境，衡量表现，并能适应不同的学生的兴趣和学习风格。在这个项目中开发的工具可以立即应用于远程学习，技术和交付模式可以很容易地应用于其他科学科目。