STTR Phase I: Courseware Self-Assembly: Auto-Constructed Nanotechnology Education Content

本小企业技术转移（STTR）第一阶段研究项目开发了一个在线教育资源系统，提供自动构建的课件。自动组装的课件将侧重于纳米技术教育，并能够扩展到所有学科领域。“Courtney Self-Assembly”（CSA）系统的主要目标是：（1）一个分析性的资源映射软件产品，它将挖掘各种学习内容的存储库并对其进行自动分类，以产生（2）一个基于Web的图形界面，用于有效地教学使用多维学习内容资源。 将对自我评估系统进行形成性评价，以确定该系统需要掌握的关键因素，以便自动生成高质量的、适合教学的课件。CSA侧重于满足教师的实际需求，特别是在具有复杂主题和新的分布式学习材料的内容领域。CSA将使在线教育课件的创建与传统的互联网搜索相同的用户方法和努力。CSA将使现有学习资源的编译、组织、结构化和排序工作自动化，简化为课程或教学单元创建基本课件的任务，以选择主题，并根据教师的喜好调整自动生成的结果。由于CSA系统将使在线教育课件的创建成为可能，因为用户习惯于使用传统的Internet搜索工具，教学和学习资源可以比现在更广泛地分发、启动和修改。有了这种能力，学校、组织和个人就可以像搜索Web一样快速、轻松地获得学科领域的高质量、组织良好和有序的教学。这将使教学和学习能够扩展和提高速度，就像全文搜索对Web所做的那样。这项研究将对弱势群体和那些在文化、语言或技术方面有困难的人产生最大的影响，因为它将使他们更简单、更快、更有适应性地获得广泛的优质教育选择。

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I research project develops an online educational resource system that provides automatically constructed courseware. The auto-assembled courseware will focus on education in nanotechnology, with the ability to extend into all subject areas. The key objectives of the 'Courseware Self-Assembly' (CSA) system are: (1) an analytical resource-mapping software product that will mine diverse repositories of learning content and auto-categorize them to produce (2) a Web-based, graphical interface for effective instructional use of a multi-dimensional set of learning content resources. A formative evaluation of the CSA system will be implemented to determine key factors the system needs to master in order to automatically generate high-quality, pedagogically-appropriate courseware. The CSA focuses on meeting the pragmatic needs of instructors, especially in content areas with complex subject matter and new, distributed learning materials. CSA will enable the creation of online educational courseware with the same user approach and effort as doing a traditional Internet search. CSA will automate the job of compiling, organizing, structuring, and sequencing available learning resources, simplifying the task of creating basic courseware for courses or for instructional units to selection of topics and adapting the auto-produced results for instructors' preferences.Because CSA system will enable the creation of online educational courseware as users are accustomed to doing with a traditional Internet search tools, teaching and learning resources can be far more widely distributed, started up, and revised, than is currently possible. With this capability, schools, organizations, and individuals can get high quality, well organized and sequenced instruction in subject areas as quickly and as easily as searching the Web. This will enable teaching and learning to expand and increase in speed, as full-text search has done for the Web. This research will have the largest impact on disadvantaged people and for those who have difficulty with the culture, language, or technology, because it will give them simpler, quicker, and more adaptable access to broad choices of quality education.