Collaborative Research: Interdisciplinary Virtual Labs for Undergraduate Education in the NSDL MatDL

合作研究：NSDL MatDL 本科教育跨学科虚拟实验室

• 批准号: 0633211
• 负责人: Donald Sadoway
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 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 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0633211&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Interdisciplinary; Virtual; Labs

Interdisciplinary (99)Virtual lab (VL) activities are designed to help students connect microscopic structure and principles to macroscopic outcomes, a difficult connection for students to learn and ideally suited to VL experience. VLs may provide a workable alternative to physical labs, allowing students to achieve many ABET laboratory learning objectives while circumventing difficulties associated with growing enrollments and physical space limitations. The technical focus of the VL project is molecular interactions, how they are affected by temperature, and how these can be managed to influence self-assembly and phase separation, which are seen in all three chosen domains: materials science, chemistry and biology. The same principal instructional technique across the three domains is student interaction with molecular level simulations. Two different context types relevant to each domain are provided: modern research and everyday science. A domain-specific introductory segment provides students with a relevant "big-picture" view. At the end, students apply within a particular domain, knowledge gained from interactions with the simulation. Contextualizing the learning experience makes it more compelling for students, increasing the likelihood that concepts are retained over time and that learning is transferred to other situations. The NSDL MatDL Pathway project contributes to this project with the result that broader impact of NSF funded initiatives is attained by increasing the number, quality, accessibility, and usage of learning resources, particularly those based on recent research, thereby integrating research and education.

跨学科（99）虚拟实验室（VL）活动旨在帮助学生将微观结构和原理与宏观结果联系起来，这对学生来说是一种难以学习的联系，非常适合VL体验。虚拟实验室可以提供一个可行的替代物理实验室，让学生实现许多ABET实验室学习目标，同时规避与不断增长的入学人数和物理空间限制相关的困难。 VL项目的技术重点是分子相互作用，它们如何受到温度的影响，以及如何管理这些相互作用以影响自组装和相分离，这在所有三个选定的领域中都可以看到：材料科学，化学和生物学。 在这三个领域中，相同的主要教学技术是学生与分子水平模拟的互动。 提供了两种不同的上下文类型相关的每个领域：现代研究和日常科学。一个特定领域的介绍部分为学生提供了一个相关的“大局”视图。最后，学生在一个特定的领域内应用，从与模拟的互动中获得的知识。 将学习体验置于情境中使其对学生更具吸引力，增加了概念随着时间的推移而保留的可能性，并将学习转移到其他情况。NSDL MatDL Pathway项目为该项目做出了贡献，其结果是通过增加学习资源的数量，质量，可访问性和使用率，特别是那些基于最近研究的学习资源，从而将研究和教育结合起来，实现了NSF资助的倡议的更广泛影响。