Development and Dissemination of On-line Laboratories in Networks, Probability Theory, Signals and Systems, and Multimedia Computing

这项全面的EMD合作包括五所大学，即亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）、华盛顿大学博塞尔分校（UWB）、德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校（UTD）、罗德岛大学（URI）和中佛罗里达大学（UCF）。该项目涉及重大的教育技术创新和软件扩展，使亚利桑那州立大学在线原型软件Java-DSP （J-DSP; http://jdsp.asu.edu）能够在五所参与大学的本科课程中使用。正在解决的问题包括使用新颖的Java工具向本科生提供技术增强的实验室体验，以及在参与的大学中对这些实践进行广泛的评估。项目任务和目标包括：a)软件开发以产生一种新的交付技术，b) J-DSP的相当大的数学功能扩展，c)由不同大学的所有合作项目负责人开发实验室练习，d)涉及所有五所大学的教师专家的地理多样性评估，e)一个新的革命性的多地点实验室概念的全面试点测试，允许五所大学的学生同时运行实时集成在线模拟，使用计划中的J-DSP连接升级；f)所有结果的传播和出版。教育创新使远程学习者能够通过互联网进行实验。在这个项目中发展的概念是作为一个模式，开发和开展在线实验室在其他科学学科。

This full-scale EMD collaborative effort involves five universities, namely, Arizona State University (ASU), the University of Washington Bothell (UWB), the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), the University of Rhode Island (URI), and the University of Central Florida (UCF). The project involves significant educational technology innovations and software extensions that enable the ASU online prototype software Java-DSP (J-DSP; http://jdsp.asu.edu) to be used in undergraduate courses across the five participating universities. Problems that are being addressed include the delivery of technology-enhanced laboratory experiences to undergraduate students using novel Java tools, and the broad assessment of these practices across the participating universities. The project tasks and objectives include: a) software development towards producing a new delivery technology, b) considerable mathematical functionality extensions of J-DSP, c) development of laboratory exercises by all the Co-PIs at the different universities, d) a geographically-diverse assessment that involves the faculty specialists at all five universities, e) a comprehensive pilot test of a new revolutionary multi-site laboratory concept that allows students in the five universities to concurrently run real-time integrated online simulations using the planned connectivity upgrades on J-DSP, and f) dissemination and publication of all results. The educational innovation is enabling distance learners to conduct laboratories over the Internet. The concepts developed in this project are serving as a model for developing and conducting online labs in other science disciplines.