Collaborative Research: Phase 3 Design, Implementation and Dissemination of Multidisciplinary online Java-Digital Signal Processing (J-DSP) Materials

工程-其他(59)该项目由亚利桑那州立大学(ASU)作为牵头机构，约翰霍普金斯大学(JHU)、华盛顿大学博塞尔分校(UWB)、草原景观农工大学(PVAMU)和罗斯-胡尔曼理工学院(RHIT)共同参与，正在将获奖软件包(J-DSP)和教学方法的使用扩展到一系列广泛的新领域，包括数字信号处理、地球系统和地质、可再生能源系统、艺术和媒体、离子通道系统和基因组学。分布在不同地理位置的多学科团队正在设计、部署和评估在线模块。这一教育技术提供了免费且可普遍访问的基于Web的Java软件，该软件具有直观的界面，使教师能够创建基于Web的讲座，并使用同步的在线模拟和动画，并监控学生的进度和偏好。它允许学生，包括远程学习者，进行在线实验室和跨学科协作，随时随地进行模拟，并与其他大学的同事在线协作。评估工作是使用自我、同行和教师评估来衡量学生的学习质量，方法是采用一套在线评估工具，该工具是根据之前的一项拨款开发的，涉及一系列信号处理课程。项目组正在努力通过在项目网站和以学科为基础的网站(CNX.ORG)上张贴帖子、通过与NSDL的链接、通过教员研讨会、通过会议演示和期刊出版物以及通过高中和工业外联来传播教学材料。更广泛的影响包括两个MSI的参与，专注于少数族裔的外展努力，包括教员研讨会在内的多方面传播，以及在几个网站上的网站张贴。

Engineering - Other (59)The project, a collaboration involving Arizona State University (ASU) as the lead institution, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), University of Washington-Bothell (UWB), Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT), is expanding the use of an award winning software package (J-DSP) and instructional approach into a broad set of new areas including digital signal processing, earth systems and geology, renewable energy systems, arts and media, ion-channel systems, and genomics. Online modules are being designed, deployed, and assessed by a geographically-diverse multidisciplinary team. This educational technology provides free and universally accessible web-based Java software with an intuitive interface that enables instructors to create web-based lectures with synchronized online simulations and animations and to monitor student progress and preferences. It allows students, including distance learners, to conduct online laboratories and collaborate across disciplines, to perform simulations anytime anywhere, and to collaborate online with their colleagues at other universities. The evaluation effort is using self, peer, and instructor assessments to measure the quality of student learning by adapting a set of on-line assessment instruments developed on a previous grant dealing with a set of signal processing courses. The project team is working to disseminate the instructional materials by postings on the project's website and on a discipline-based site (CNX.ORG), by links with the NSDL, by faculty workshops, by conference presentation and journal publications, and by high school and industrial outreach. Broader impacts include an involvement of two MSIs, an outreach effort focused on minorities, multifaceted dissemination involving faculty workshops and web posting on several sites.