CAREER: Virtual communities of learning and care: multi-user virtual environments that promote positive youth development

职业：学习和关怀的虚拟社区：促进青少年积极发展的多用户虚拟环境

• 批准号: 0447166
• 负责人: Marina Bers
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-02-15 至 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0447166&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Virtual; communities; learning; care

This CAREER project aims to develop a research and education program to foster positive and healthy youth development through the use of multi-user, virtual environments called identity construction environments (ICEs), which are hypothesized to foster new kinds of communities of learning and care. One context where such technologies may have the most impact is in situations where youth might otherwise be isolated and in danger of developing mental health-related problems. The PI will work with youth at the Boston Children's Hospital that have suffered severe renal and cardiac failure and who wouldn't otherwise survive without medical interventions such as heart and kidney transplants. An applied developmental model provides a framework to design ICEs. It also provides a model for doing research in complex real world settings. It is hypothesized that ICEs will 1) promote positive youth development (measured as competence, connection, character, confidence, caring and contribution to civil society), 2) complement and augment face-to-face psychosocial interventions, and 3) that the positive effects are due to design features and the nature of online activities that engage youth in cognitive, social and emotional development. Educational activities include research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in an interdisciplinary research group, service learning in healthcare and community-based settings, new courses and curricula for students from a variety of disciplines: education, mental health, engineering and computer science.

这个CAREER项目旨在开发一个研究和教育计划，通过使用多用户，虚拟环境，称为身份构建环境（ICE），这是假设，以促进学习和护理的新型社区，以促进积极和健康的青年发展。这些技术可能产生最大影响的一种情况是，青年人可能会被孤立，并有可能出现与心理健康有关的问题。PI将与波士顿儿童医院的年轻人一起工作，这些年轻人患有严重的肾衰竭和心力衰竭，如果没有心脏和肾脏移植等医疗干预，他们将无法生存。一个应用的发展模式提供了一个框架，设计ICE。它还为在复杂的真实的世界环境中进行研究提供了一个模型。据推测，社区教育将：1）促进青年的积极发展（衡量标准是能力、联系、性格、信心、关怀和对民间社会的贡献）; 2）补充和加强面对面的心理社会干预; 3）积极影响是由于使青年参与认知、社会和情感发展的在线活动的设计特点和性质。教育活动包括为本科生和研究生提供跨学科研究小组的研究机会，在医疗保健和社区环境中的服务学习，为来自各种学科的学生提供新课程和课程：教育，心理健康，工程和计算机科学。