Collaborative Project: Integration of Shared Presentation Virtual Space in STEM courses

跨学科（99）这个合作项目实现了一个创新的，在线和实时的课程交付系统，共享演示虚拟空间（SPVS）。SPVS技术通过提高学生成绩和提高学生满意度的预期可衡量成果进行评估。该团队将这项技术应用于数学、生物学和计算领域的几门不同的STEM课程。该项目通过创建实时讲座和课堂讨论，创建了一个虚拟课堂世界，以增强和丰富在线教育（OE）学生的学习体验。该系统有助于学生和教育工作者的教育进程，因为它可以通过低带宽向该国农村地区提供。在这个项目中使用的SPVS课堂世界包括一个新兴的媒体，在许多领域已经熟悉今天的学生（例如，计算机游戏、娱乐系统和可视化）。该项目的具体教学目标包括开发非传统的在线讲座。该项目增强和丰富了OE学生的学习体验（通过创建实时讲座和课堂讨论）以及面对面（FTF）课程的学生（通过创建存档课程作为学习辅助工具，并允许学生弥补他们可能错过的课程）。智力优势：SPVS系统旨在创建一个合适的基础设施，支持OE和FTF课程，同时为学生提供一个环境，从而全面提高学生的表现和满意度。当学习环境允许学生看到、听到并与教师和其他学生互动，并直接查看教育信息（如白板上的笔记）时，学生的表现会得到改善。这种环境也增加了学生在课堂上的参与，这有助于提高动机和满意度。更广泛的影响：教师和所有学生，特别是经济困难的学生都可以使用SPVS系统，因为SPVS系统使用低带宽，不需要昂贵的系统增强，并且不涉及学生或教师的陡峭学习曲线。

Interdisciplinary (99)This collaborative project implements an innovative, online and real-time course delivery system, Shared Presentation Virtual Space (SPVS). The SPVS technology is evaluated through expected measurable outcomes of improved student performance and increased student satisfaction. The team implements this technology into several different STEM courses in mathematics, biology, and computing. The project results in the creation of a virtual classroom world to enhance and enrich the learning experience of online education (OE) students, by creating real-time lectures and class discussions. This system contributes to the educational process for students and educators because it can be delivered via low-bandwidth to rural areas of the country. The SPVS classroom worlds used in this project comprise an emerging medium demonstrated in many areas already familiar to today's student (e.g., computer games, entertainment systems, and visualizations). The specific instructional goals for this project include the development of non-traditional online lectures. The project enhances and enriches the learning experience of both OE students (by creating real-time lecture and class discussion) and also students in Face-To-Face (FTF) classes (by creating archived lessons as a study aid and that allow students to make up lessons they might have missed). Intellectual Merit: The SPVS system is designed to create a suitable infrastructure supporting OE and FTF classes, while providing students with an environment resulting in an overall increase in student performance and satisfaction. Student performance improves when the learning environment allows students to see, hear, and interact with the instructor and other students, and to directly view educational information, such as notes written on a whiteboard. This environment also increases student participation in class, which helps increase motivation and satisfaction. Broader Impact: The SPVS system is accessible to instructors and to all students, especially economically disadvantaged students, because the SPVS system uses low bandwidth, requires no costly system enhancements, and does not involve steep learning curves for students or instructors.