Breaking Barriers in Communication: Technology - Enabled Active Learning for STEM Disciplines

打破沟通障碍：技术为 STEM 学科提供主动学习

• 批准号: 0618511
• 负责人: Elizabeth Simon
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0618511&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Breaking; Barriers; Communication; Technology; Enabled

Although the benefits of active learning in the classroom are well documented, barriers still exist which block its ubiquitous usage in STEM classrooms. While some of these barriers come from historical prejudices in content heavy disciplines, others exist due to more mundane factors such as large class size and reticence of students to participate in the classroom environment; which may seem less amenable to student opinion than they are to correct or incorrect answers.This project is training 40 STEM faculty members across the country in the development of active learning techniques, developing a repository of discipline-specific activities (in accordance with university policy), and combining the activities with training in the use of a Tablet PC-based system.Project PIs are conducting a series of workshops to build a community of scholars and contribute to education research on issues of active learning in STEM disciplines. The goals of these workshops are to: -Train for faculty in the electronic active learning system and in active learning techniques, -Serve as a venue for the interchange and development of ideas on active learning across STEM disciplines, -Educate STEM faculty in the area of human subjects-based research including research and analysis techniques appropriate to such studies.

尽管课堂上主动学习的好处是有据可查的，但仍然存在障碍，阻碍了它在STEM课堂上的普遍使用。虽然其中一些障碍来自内容繁重学科的历史偏见，但也有一些障碍存在于更常见的因素，如大班额和学生参与课堂环境的沉默；这个项目正在培训全国40名STEM教职员工开发主动学习技术，开发特定学科的活动库(根据大学政策)，并将这些活动与基于平板电脑的系统的使用培训相结合。项目PI正在举办一系列研讨会，以建立学者社区，并为STEM学科中的主动学习问题的教育研究做出贡献。这些研讨会的目标是：--对教师进行电子主动学习系统和主动学习技术方面的培训，--作为交流和发展跨STEM学科的主动学习思想的场所，--在以人类为基础的研究领域对STEM教师进行教育，包括适用于此类研究的研究和分析技术。