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

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏与再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该工程教育研究奖授予卡内基-梅隆大学与德雷塞尔大学合作，将雇用研究人员开发和部署新的交互式聊天教程，以增强几个核心机械工程课程的学习。教程将支持自定进度教学，学生和对话代理可以参与教程对话。这种能力将允许实时干预，可以帮助学生培养直觉，也将支持与地理分布的团队合作所需的技术交流。这项研究可以为工程教育提供一种全新的资源，并将产生对适应性教学策略的见解，这种策略可以最有效地支持自定进度学习。它有潜力极大地推进交互式学习、分布式学习和分布式技术协作的能力，这些都是在全球工作场所更好地教育工程师所需要的。

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.