Universal Environment for Delivering Remote-Laboratories within the STEM Disciplines

在 STEM 学科内提供远程实验室的通用环境

• 批准号: 0837138
• 负责人: Abul Azad
• 金额: $ 14.92万
• 依托单位: Northern Illinois University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0837138&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Universal; Environment; Delivering; Remote; Laboratories

Interdisciplinary(99) This project investigates a radical approach for delivering laboratory courses while utilizing the benefits of emerging computer and web technology (software and hardware) in education. The work brings together an engineer, an educational psychologist and a pedagogical design expert in the design and development a universal Internet-based remote laboratory environment where students can proceed at their own pace with more flexibility. The customizable environment brings together an embedded assessment and monitoring facility (progress of a student and the class as a whole) to a range of laboratory courses, so that faculty/facilitator from STEM disciplines can integrate their laboratory courses with very little effort. Students experience engaging laboratories and a means for developing skills of self-monitoring and reflection, while working from pre-existing knowledge of each student. The concept blends emerging Internet technology, software, computer interfacing, cutting edge graphical user interface, effective pedagogical designs, assessment and evaluation schemes. The developed environment has five important features: a) learning through remote laboratory; b) ease of integration with a range of STEM courses; c) real-time video and audio link with experiments; d) frequent student feedback; and e) faculty/facilitator monitoring of student progress and activities. The remote laboratory entails physical (real) laboratory equipment that is controlledremotely. The developed environment is validated by using two undergraduatelevel laboratory courses (advanced digital design laboratory and control systems laboratory). Advances in cross discipline integration and inquiry into unique challenges posed by an unpredictable arena of human learning are combined with emerging technologies to achieve the highest possible performance in learning. The activities build on knowledge developed during a previous NSF grant and advance this remote laboratory to the next level by making it flexible and more effective for utilization in range of STEM subject areas. The project is potentially transformative because it is converting traditional production-line style laboratory delivery systems to a personalized and individualized approach to learning.

跨学科（99）本项目研究了一种激进的方法，用于提供实验室课程，同时利用新兴的计算机和网络技术（软件和硬件）在教育中的好处。 这项工作汇集了一名工程师，一名教育心理学家和一名教学设计专家，他们设计和开发了一个通用的基于互联网的远程实验室环境，学生可以按照自己的节奏更加灵活地进行。可定制的环境将嵌入式评估和监控设施（学生和整个班级的进度）与一系列实验室课程结合在一起，以便STEM学科的教师/主持人可以轻松整合他们的实验室课程。学生体验从事实验室和发展自我监控和反思技能的手段，同时从每个学生的现有知识工作。这一概念融合了新兴的互联网技术、软件、计算机接口、最先进的图形用户界面、有效的教学设计、评估和评价计划。开发的环境有五个重要特征：a）通过远程实验室学习; B）易于与一系列STEM课程集成; c）与实验的实时视频和音频链接; d）频繁的学生反馈;以及e）教师/辅导员监控学生的进度和活动。远程实验室需要远程控制的物理（真实的）实验室设备。所开发的环境进行了验证，使用两个本科层次的实验室课程（先进的数字化设计实验室和控制系统实验室）。跨学科整合的进步和对人类学习的不可预测的竞技场所带来的独特挑战的探究与新兴技术相结合，以实现学习的最高性能。这些活动以之前NSF资助期间开发的知识为基础，通过使其在一系列STEM学科领域的利用更加灵活和有效，将这个远程实验室提升到一个新的水平。该项目具有潜在的变革性，因为它正在将传统的生产线式实验室交付系统转换为个性化和个性化的学习方法。