Increasing and Retaining STEM Majors through Virtual Learning Communities

通过虚拟学习社区增加和留住 STEM 专业学生

• 批准号: 0442901
• 负责人: Charles Ward
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Wilmington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-05-01 至 2007-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0442901&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; Retaining; STEM; Majors; through

The Virtual Learning Community, VLC, exploits the documented advantages of this type of learning community while addressing one of its most serious limitations, the problem of scalability. The VLC expands student contact beyond the walls of their residence, and permits group meetings, seminars, and other interactions to occur anywhere and anytime. We create a curriculum coordinating courses in Chemistry and Mathematics to improve quality of learning, increase excitement for mathematics and science, retain more mathematics and science students, and improve critical thinking and analysis skills. The VLC extends the benefits of interactivity and cooperative learning afforded by learning communities to a significantly wider audience by providing a Virtual Collaborative Environment (VCE) that integrates rich data sharing, multi-way communication and location aware services. The VCE enables faculty and students to seamlessly exchange information containing text, data, formulae and graphics, anywhere, anytime.

虚拟学习社区（VLC）利用了这种类型的学习社区的记录优势，同时解决了其最严重的限制之一，可扩展性问题。VLC扩大了学生的接触超出了他们的住所的墙壁，并允许小组会议，研讨会和其他互动发生在任何地方和任何时间。 我们创建了化学和数学课程协调课程，以提高学习质量，增加数学和科学的兴奋，留住更多的数学和科学学生，提高批判性思维和分析能力。VLC通过提供集成了丰富的数据共享、多方式通信和位置感知服务的虚拟协作环境（VCE），将学习社区提供的交互和合作学习的优势扩展到更广泛的受众。VCE使教师和学生能够随时随地无缝交换包含文本、数据、公式和图形的信息。