Collaborative: The CONCAM Undergraduate Education Project

合作：CONCAM 本科教育项目

• 批准号: 0231070
• 负责人: Robert Nemiroff
• 金额: $ 3.75万
• 依托单位: Michigan Technological University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-15 至 2006-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0231070&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; CONCAM; Undergraduate; Education; Project

There is no substitute for exposure to real observations of astronomical phenomena. Most students, however, are either unfamiliar with the night sky or familiar only with a night sky that is severely compromised by city lights. Planetarium software, while useful, provides an artificial and synthetic experience. A global network of fisheye night-sky web cameras, the CONCAMs, has developed recently, and it takes real and continuous images of the entire night sky. These images, freely available over the web, can be used to demonstrate clearly and forcefully many basic scientific concepts in introductory astronomy. This project is developing the CONCAM Undergraduate Education Project that leverages CONCAM images to teach a variety of astronomical concepts to undergraduates. As part of this initiative the project is developing modules that supplement standard introductory textbooks with real all-sky images from http://concam.net . This is a Proof of Concept project during which two prototype modules are being developed and evaluated

没有什么能代替对天文现象的真实观察。然而，大多数学生要么不熟悉夜空，要么只熟悉被城市灯光严重破坏的夜空。天文馆软件虽然有用，但提供了一种人工合成的体验。一个全球性的鱼眼夜空网络摄像机（CONCAMs）最近已经发展起来，它可以拍摄整个夜空的真实和连续图像。这些图片可以在网上免费获得，可以用来清晰有力地展示天文学入门中的许多基本科学概念。该项目正在开发CONCAM本科教育项目，利用CONCAM图像向本科生教授各种天文学概念。作为这项计划的一部分，该项目正在开发一些模块，用来自http://concam.net的真实的全天图像来补充标准的入门教科书。这是一个概念验证项目，其中两个原型模块正在开发和评估中