Education Innovation: LEGO MindStorms - Cost-Effectively Expanding CS Students' Horizons and Enthusiasm Outside the (Desktop) Box

教育创新：乐高 MindStorms - 经济高效地扩展计算机科学学生的视野和热情，跳出（桌面）框框

• 批准号: 0306096
• 负责人: Frank Klassner
• 金额: $ 49万
• 依托单位: Villanova University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0306096&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Education; Innovation; LEGO; MindStorms; Cost

0306096Frank KlassnerVillanova UniversityEducation Innovation: LEGO MindStorms - Cost-Effectively Expanding CS students' Horizons and Enthusiasm Outside the (Desktop) Box$490,000This project involves investigators from three institutions - Villanova University, University of Mississippi, and Alma College - and is a follow up of a Proof of Concept grant, DUE-0088884, awarded by the DUE Division of NSF. The current project involves four activities: developing a set of 40 assignments and laboratory exercises that use LEGO MindStorms robot kits to promote active student learning across the ACM/IEEE Computing Curricula 2001 (CC2001) guidelines; identifying and maintaining software technology that is needed to make the MindStorms platform support the range of assignments developed; motivating students' interest in, understanding of, and application of advanced computer science research results through exploration with the MindStorms platform; and measuring the pedagogical efficacy of the MindStorms platform. In part, this project was motivated by a survey of research efforts and employment opportunities in CISE fields over the past five years that showed several trends that may have serious implications for the traditional undergraduate computer science curriculum design - that is, greater emphasis on mobile networking, ubiquitous computing, large-scale networks, real time systems, agent architectures, embedded signal analysis systems in robotics and information retrieval systems, distributed system design, and world-wide-web language design in the research community, in part because of the explosion in network capabilities on the WWW. Employment opportunities for computer science BS graduates are increasingly requiring competence in distributed computing solutions and embedded programming solutions within the greater context of the World Wide Web. This institution's experience with hands-on robotics projects, in an NSF CCLI proof-of-concept grant, indicated that undergraduate students' motivation to learn new computing principles increases significantly when they apply those principles to constructing robots and designing problem-solving control code for their creations. However, scarcity of educational materials available to implement this approach is a deterrent to its pursuit. This project identifies seven out of the fourteen knowledge areas in the CC2001that might be pedagogically enhanced through robotics-oriented projects: Programming Fundamentals, Algorithms and Complexity, Programming Languages, Architecture, Operating Systems, Intelligent Systems, and Net-Centric Computing. All of the areas targeted in this project contain material that the committee has designated as 'core' topics. Thus, advanced and elective courses in a CC2001-based curriculum can seamlessly take advantage of students' experiences in the core topics when exploring advanced research results in the context of MindStorms robotics. The materials developed by this project will be disseminated both through the WWW and workshops.

0306096弗兰克·克拉斯纳维拉诺瓦大学教育创新：LEGO MindStorms -经济有效地扩展CS学生的视野和热情（桌面）框外$490，000该项目涉及来自三个机构的调查人员-维拉诺瓦大学，密西西比大学和阿尔马学院-并且是由NSF DUE部门授予的概念验证补助金DUE-0088884的后续行动。目前的项目涉及四项活动：开发一套40项作业和实验室练习，使用乐高MindStorms机器人工具包，促进学生积极学习ACM/IEEE计算课程2001（CC 2001）指南;确定和维护使MindStorms平台支持所开发作业范围所需的软件技术;通过探索MindStorms平台，激发学生对先进计算机科学研究成果的兴趣，理解和应用;并测量MindStorms平台的教学效果。在某种程度上，这个项目是由过去五年中CISE领域的研究工作和就业机会的调查所激发的，该调查显示了几种可能对传统本科计算机科学课程设计产生严重影响的趋势-即更加强调移动的网络，无处不在的计算，大规模网络，真实的时间系统，代理架构，机器人和信息检索系统中的嵌入式信号分析系统、分布式系统设计和研究界的万维网语言设计，部分原因是万维网上网络能力的爆炸式增长。计算机科学学士学位毕业生的就业机会越来越需要在万维网的更大范围内的分布式计算解决方案和嵌入式编程解决方案的能力。该机构在NSF CCLI概念验证补助金中实践机器人项目的经验表明，当本科生将这些原则应用于构建机器人和设计解决问题的控制代码时，他们学习新计算原理的动机显着增加。然而，缺乏可用于实施这一方法的教育材料，阻碍了这一做法的实施。该项目确定了CC 2001中14个知识领域中的7个，这些知识领域可能通过面向机器人的项目在教学上得到增强：编程基础、算法和复杂性、编程语言、体系结构、操作系统、智能系统和网络中心计算。该项目针对的所有领域都包含委员会指定为“核心”主题的材料。因此，基于CC 2001的课程中的高级和选修课程可以无缝地利用学生在核心主题中的经验，在MindStorms机器人技术的背景下探索高级研究成果。该项目编制的材料将通过万维网和讲习班传播。