CRCD/EI: ALASKA: Applet and Library Augmented Shared Knowledge Areas

CRCD/EI：阿拉斯加：Applet 和库增强共享知识领域

• 批准号: 0420310
• 负责人: Eric Hamilton
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: United States Air Force Academy
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-15 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0420310&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CRCD; EI; ALASKA; Applet; Library

This project involves collaboration between the PI at the US Air Force Academy, and partners at SRI International, and the University of Colorado. The project involves building and testing a prototype of a platform that integrates shared work in educational domains. The platform facilitates opening of a series of new and instructionally potent interactive pathways: each student interacts with his or her personal agent in solving problems or acquiring new curricular concepts, the professor can also direct the agents, and all of them -- professor, student or agent -- have immediate access to the curriculum-tailored library of applets that provide clarifying visualizations, simulations, animations or fuller explanations of curriculum concepts. The agents communicate with each other and can aggregate instructionally specific data across the class for the professor. The professor also has a perceptive agent in his or her space to organize data but also to serve as an observer that can debrief with the instructor and with other agents. The three IT advances that are integrated in this project involve shared workspaces; digital libraries; and perceptive animated agents. The curriculum development research involves teams of upper level computer science students and educators who collaborate in the creation of applet libraries that are customized for individual curricula. The deliverables for this project include: Shared Workspaces, Applets, and Perceptive Agents. For the purposes of this project, a Shared Workspace involves a software application -- such as a programming editor or electronic sketchpad -- that is networked and shared by different users in a "What You See Is What I See" or WYSIWIS manner and that also permits teacher-to-class screen broadcasting. This project's foci lie with instructionally sophisticated WYSIWIS architectures whose interfaces feature authentic classroom metaphors. In the context of this project, Applets are portable "mini-programs" that produce text or video explanations, simulations, visualizations, animations, or graphical representations of course concepts. And, finally, the Perceptive Agents developed for ALASKA enable a form of personal tutoring, where the agent-tutor and student work closely together in a virtual one-on-one setting. Agents in this project engage in simple dialogs with students to help fulfill their goals; they have three possible classes of responses to student requests: 1) give an answer or invoke an applet; 2) engage in a clarification dialog with the student; or 3) pass the history of the interaction to the teacher or agent network for resolution. This project's framework is easily translated to classroom settings for many other disciplines with compatible curricula as well as to asynchronous learning environments. The proposal capitalizes on and extends substantial investments by NSF and others in animated agent technologies, digital library production, and participatory design models for crafting high quality and usable education objects, and collaborative lesson-studies.

该项目涉及美国空军学院的PI与SRI国际和科罗拉多大学的合作伙伴之间的合作。该项目涉及建立和测试一个平台的原型，该平台将教育领域的共享工作整合在一起。该平台有助于开辟一系列新的、具有潜在影响力的互动途径：每个学生在解决问题或获得新的课程概念时与他或她的个人代理交互，教授也可以指导代理，并且所有这些代理-教授，学生或代理-都可以立即访问为学生量身定制的applet库，这些applet库提供清晰的可视化，模拟，动画或更全面的课程概念解释。这些代理相互通信，可以为教授收集整个班级的特定数据。教授在他或她的空间中也有一个感知代理来组织数据，但也可以作为观察员，与讲师和其他代理进行汇报。在这个项目中集成的三个IT进步涉及共享数据库、数字图书馆和感知动画代理。课程开发的研究涉及团队的上层计算机科学的学生和教育工作者谁在创建applet库，定制个人课程的合作。该项目的交付成果包括：共享工作区、小程序和感知代理。出于本项目的目的，共享工作空间涉及一个软件应用程序（例如编程编辑器或电子画板），该软件应用程序以“你所见即是我所见”或所见即所得的方式联网并由不同用户共享，并且还允许教师到班级的屏幕广播。这个项目的焦点在于复杂的WYSIWIS架构，其界面具有真实的课堂隐喻。在这个项目的背景下，小程序是便携式的“迷你程序”，可以产生文本或视频解释，模拟，可视化，动画或课程概念的图形表示。最后，为ALASKA开发的感知代理实现了一种个人辅导形式，其中代理导师和学生在虚拟的一对一环境中密切合作。在这个项目中，代理人与学生进行简单的对话，以帮助实现他们的目标;他们对学生的请求有三种可能的响应：1）给出答案或调用applet; 2）与学生进行澄清对话;或3）将交互的历史传递给教师或代理网络进行解决。这个项目的框架很容易翻译到许多其他学科的课堂设置与兼容的课程，以及异步学习环境。该提案利用并扩展了NSF和其他人在动画代理技术，数字图书馆制作和参与式设计模型方面的大量投资，以制作高质量和可用的教育对象，以及协作式课程研究。