Biofilms: The Hypertextbook--A Web-Based Active-Learning Approach for Rapid Infusion of Emerging Knowledge into Undergraduate STEM Curricula

生物膜：超文本书——一种基于网络的主动学习方法，可将新兴知识快速融入本科 STEM 课程

• 批准号: 0618744
• 负责人: Alfred Cunningham
• 金额: $ 49.83万
• 依托单位: Montana 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 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0618744&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biofilms; Hypertextbook; Web; Based; Active

Biofilms; the Hypertextbook is a teaching and learning resource constructed around the Web technologies that can be disseminated on DVD media. Materials ares presented in parallel in distinct forms for students at different academic levels (from freshmen to seniors). In addition to standard textual presentations of a subject, the hypertext incorporates high resolution images, slide shows, videos, audios and active learning models of important processes. The presentation is designed to result in a high degree of student interaction. The team creating Biofilms: The Hypertextbook includes content specialists, computer scientists, educational evaluators, graphics and web design specialists, and copy editors. The material is presented in a form facilitating use by a variety of disciplines (e.g. microbiology, environmental science, and various engineering sub-disciplines) and for different lengths of treatment (from a few lectures to an entire course). It is undergoing extensive evaluation to determine its acceptability by students and its ease of use by them, its attractiveness to faculty as a means of supporting their classroom efforts, and the rate at which it is disseminated and adopted. A prototype of the hypertextbook has been formally evaluated and the results of that evaluation are guiding this further development. Intellectual Merit: Biofilms has emerged as a discipline within a variety of fields as research reveals that microorganisms on surfaces generally live in heterogeneous colonies with inherent defense mechanisms and other characteristics not found in those same microorganisms in aqueous solution. This rapid change in approach to understanding the ecology of microbes and their effects on a variety of related organisms (including humans) is radically changing our view of microbiology and profoundly affecting practice and research in academia, industry, medicine, and dentistry. The hypertext being produced within this project is helping faculty keep their course content current with these research advances within the science and the pedagogy current with advances in science education.Broader Impacts: The hypertextbook is being made widely and generally available in incremental fashion as it evolves during the course of the project. It is being disseminated to, and evaluated in STEM courses, at a variety of institutions (from community colleges to R1 research universities) with diverse student populations (e.g., the Montana Tribal Colleges and other largely minority serving schools), and wide geographic representation. In addition to encouraging and facilitating the introduction of biofilm topics into the STEM curricula, the project is also exploring the general concept of the hypertextbook and is providing the first large-scale examination of the effects of the hypertextbook on student learning.

生物电影;超教科书是一个教学和学习资源，围绕网络技术，可以在DVD媒体上传播。 教材以不同的形式平行呈现给不同学术水平的学生（从大一到大四）。 除了一个主题的标准文本介绍外，超文本还包括高分辨率的图像、幻灯片、视频、音频和重要过程的主动学习模型。 演示文稿的目的是导致高度的学生互动。 制作生物膜的团队：超级教科书包括内容专家，计算机科学家，教育评估员，图形和网页设计专家以及文字编辑。 材料以便于各种学科（例如微生物学，环境科学和各种工程子学科）使用的形式呈现，并用于不同的治疗时间（从几个讲座到整个课程）。目前正在进行广泛的评估，以确定学生对该系统的接受程度及其易用性，该系统作为支持教师课堂努力的一种手段对教师的吸引力，以及该系统的传播和采用速度。 超级教科书的原型已经过正式评估，评估结果正在指导进一步的开发。智力优势：生物膜已经成为各种领域中的一门学科，因为研究表明，表面上的微生物通常生活在异质菌落中，具有内在的防御机制和其他特征，这些特征在水溶液中的相同微生物中没有发现。 理解微生物生态及其对各种相关生物（包括人类）影响的方法的迅速变化正在从根本上改变我们对微生物学的看法，并深刻影响学术界、工业界、医学和牙科的实践和研究。该项目中制作的超文本帮助教师保持他们的课程内容与科学和教育学中的这些研究进展保持同步。更广泛的影响：随着项目过程中的发展，超文本教科书正在以渐进的方式广泛和普遍地提供。它正在传播到各种机构（从社区学院到R1研究型大学）的STEM课程，并在这些课程中进行评估，这些机构的学生群体多种多样（例如，蒙大拿部落学院和其他主要为少数民族服务的学校），以及广泛的地理代表性。除了鼓励和促进将生物膜主题引入STEM课程外，该项目还探索了超级教科书的一般概念，并首次大规模检查了超级教科书对学生学习的影响。