Development of cutting-edge geoscience virtual reality applications for classroom instruction and pedagogical evaluation of the impact on learning of VR technology

开发用于课堂教学的尖端地球科学虚拟现实应用程序以及 VR 技术对学习影响的教学评估

• 批准号: 0618686
• 负责人: William Gallus
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0618686&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; cutting; edge; geoscience; virtual

Earth System Science (40)Using knowledge gained from prior development of a virtual tornadic thunderstorm, a virtual volcano activity is being developed to permit students to make discoveries as a volcanologist would. Increasingly sophisticated and realistic virtual reality applications offer great potential for educational use; however, limited testing has been done to see if such realistic representations of phenomena significantly improve learning. The virtual tornadic storm serves as an excellent test bed because it demonstrates the most visually realistic virtual reality representation of any geoscience phenomenon yet developed and includes full data probing capabilities. Science writing heuristic, a novel teaching approach based around concepts of guided inquiry to the learning of science, is being used to guide activities and prompt student reasoning about data, tasks shown to considerably improve learning. The virtual volcano activity improves upon the virtual tornadic storm by allowing the user to design the initial conditions of the system (e.g., tectonic setting, magma composition), with the type of volcano and eruptive style being a function of the initial input. Testing of the impact of both activities on student learning is being conducted in a broad range of schools and settings, including a two-year college in an urban setting, a university with a large Hispanic population, a university with a dominant African-American population, and three research schools in both geologically and geographically different parts of the country so that impacts on a representative subset of the American student population are being measured. Extensive interviewing is being performed to determine prevailing understandings or misconceptions about tornadoes and volcanoes and to develop self-interest questions that guide the development and use of the virtual tools. Appropriate teaching approaches to use with the simulations are being developed. These approaches will greatly impact future development and implementation of simulations across a broad range of educational settings.

地球系统科学（40）利用从以前开发的虚拟龙卷风雷暴中获得的知识，正在开发一个虚拟火山活动，让学生像火山学家一样进行发现。 越来越复杂和逼真的虚拟现实应用程序提供了巨大的潜力，为教育用途;然而，有限的测试已经完成，看看这种现象的现实表示显着提高学习。 虚拟龙卷风风暴作为一个很好的测试平台，因为它展示了迄今为止开发的任何地球科学现象的最逼真的虚拟现实表示，并包括完整的数据探测能力。 科学写作启发式是一种基于科学学习引导探究概念的新型教学方法，被用来指导活动并促使学生对数据进行推理，这些任务显着改善了学习。 虚拟火山活动通过允许用户设计系统的初始条件（例如，构造背景、岩浆成分），火山类型和喷发样式是初始输入的函数。 正在广泛的学校和环境中测试这两项活动对学生学习的影响，包括城市环境中的两年制学院、西班牙裔人口众多的大学、非裔美国人占主导地位的大学、和三所研究学校在地质和地理上都不同的地区，使美国学生人口的代表性子集的影响，正在被测量。 正在进行广泛的访谈，以确定对龙卷风和火山的普遍理解或误解，并制定指导虚拟工具开发和使用的自我利益问题。目前正在制定与模拟教学一起使用的适当教学方法。 这些方法将极大地影响未来的发展和实施的模拟在广泛的教育环境。