SBIR Phase II: Online Chapter Marketplace for Biology Learning Materials

SBIR 第二阶段：生物学习材料在线章节市场

• 批准号: 0749862
• 负责人: Eli Meir
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: SimBiotic Software
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-15 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0749862&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Online; Chapter

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project focuses on the development of an electronic replacement for reading materials currently used by the majority of biology undergraduate students. This replacement will combine smaller reading sections with more active learning components such as simulated experiments. The system to be developed will be open to contribution from a wide variety of authors and subject matter experts. Textbooks are currently used in most college biology environments to present material to students. However, learning through textbooks occurs primarily through memorization. This project is developing new innovative ways to facilitate productive learning techniques, and for configuring take-home assignments of biology students to be more active, without losing the content needed for understanding biological systems.This project has the potential to transform one of the pillars of science education, the textbook, from a passive reading instrument to an active learning tool. This could contribute to the improvement of learning gains for the at least one million students per year that participate in college level biology classes each year in the U.S. On a broad scale, this project eventually could help improve learning across all the sciences.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的重点是开发一种电子替代品，以替代目前大多数生物学本科生使用的阅读材料。这种替代将把更小的阅读部分与更主动的学习部分（如模拟实验）结合起来。待开发的系统将向各种各样的作者和主题专家开放。目前，在大多数大学生物环境中，教科书是用来向学生展示材料的。然而，通过课本学习主要是通过记忆。该项目正在开发新的创新方法，以促进有效的学习技术，并使生物学学生的家庭作业更加活跃，同时又不会丢失理解生物系统所需的内容。这个项目有可能将科学教育的支柱之一——教科书——从被动的阅读工具转变为主动的学习工具。这将有助于提高美国每年至少100万参加大学生物学课程的学生的学习成绩。从更广泛的角度来看，这个项目最终将有助于提高所有科学的学习水平。