ITR Collaborative Proposal: Building Biologically Based Immune System Simulations for Education and Training

ITR 合作提案：为教育和培训构建基于生物学的免疫系统模拟

• 批准号: 0427827
• 负责人: Henry Kelly
• 金额: $ 99.99万
• 依托单位: Federation of American Scientists
• 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: 2004-10-01 至 2007-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0427827&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; Collaborative; Proposal; Building; Biologically

This project explores the use of computer simulation for helping students of biology at all levels master an increasingly complex body of information. This simulation faithfully represents the state of biological knowledge, displays information in visual form, and is fully interactive and engaging to novice users. The simulation is of the human immune system. These simulations play a critical role in understanding the functioning of the immune system itself. The most valuable first use of the model will be to make difficult concepts in the immune system easier to understand. The simulation is the basis for a highly interactive, compelling educational game for teaching immunology at the high school and freshman college levels. The learning objectives and instructional strategies will be developed in consultation with biology teachers, at both the high school and college freshmen levels, and with learning research scientists. The project involves a multidisciplinary team with expertise in: (a) the complexities and subtleties of the underlying biology; (b) the information technology needed to build complex simulations and visualizations; (c) the instructional objectives and strategies best suited for the target audience; (d) application of the software tools to build games that people in the targeted age groups will find engaging and motivating; and (e) evaluating the impact of game/exploration-based instruction. This project will build on work on development of an instructional game for immunology supported by the National Institutes of Health and research on learning technologies supported by several public and private resources.

该项目探索如何使用计算机模拟来帮助各个级别的生物学学生掌握日益复杂的信息体。该模拟忠实地再现了生物知识的状态，以视觉形式显示信息，并且对新手用户具有充分的交互性和吸引力。该模拟是人体免疫系统。这些模拟对于理解免疫系统本身的功能发挥着至关重要的作用。该模型最有价值的首次用途是使免疫系统中的困难概念更容易理解。该模拟是高度互动、引人入胜的教育游戏的基础，用于高中和大学新生的免疫学教学。学习目标和教学策略将与高中和大学新生的生物教师以及学习研究科学家协商制定。该项目涉及一个多学科团队，其专业知识包括：(a) 基础生物学的复杂性和微妙性； (b) 建立复杂的模拟和可视化所需的信息技术； (c) 最适合目标受众的教学目标和策略； (d) 应用软件工具来制作目标年龄组的人们会觉得有吸引力和激励的游戏； (e) 评估基于游戏/探索的教学的影响。该项目将建立在美国国立卫生研究院支持的免疫学教学游戏开发工作以及多个公共和私人资源支持的学习技术研究的基础上。