Collaborative Research: Agent-Monitored Tutorials to Enable On-Line Collaborative Learning in Computer-Aided Design and Analysis

该奖项由2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(Public Law 111-5)资助。卡内基梅隆大学与德雷克塞尔大学合作设立的这一工程教育研究奖将雇用研究人员开发和部署新颖的基于聊天的互动教程，以加强在几门核心机械工程课程中的学习。这些教程将支持自定进度的教学，学生和对话代理可以在其中进行教程对话。这一能力将允许实时干预，帮助学生发展直觉，并支持与地理上分散的团队协作所需的技术交流。这项研究可以为工程教育提供一种全新的资源，并将深入了解能够最有效地支持自定进度学习的适应性辅导策略。它有可能极大地提高交互学习、分布式学习和分布式技术协作的能力，这些都是更好地为全球工作场所的工作培训工程师所需的能力。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) This engineering education research award to Carnegie-Mellon University in collaboration with Drexel University will employ researchers to develop and deploy novel interactive chat-based tutorials to enhance learning in several core mechanical engineering courses. The tutorials will support self paced instruction in which students and dialog agents can engage in tutorial conversation. This capability will allow real-time interventions which can help students develop intuition and will also support technical communications needed for collaboration with geographically distributed teams. This research could provide a fundamentally new resource for engineering education and will yield insight into adaptive tutorial strategies that can most effectively support self-paced learning. It has the potential to greatly advance capabilities for interactive learning, distributed learning, and distributed technical collaboration which are all needed to better educate engineers for jobs in the global workplace.