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

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的，该工程教育研究奖授予了与德雷克塞尔大学合作的卡内基-梅隆大学，将聘请研究人员开发和部署新颖的基于聊天的互动教程，以加强几门核心机械工程课程的学习。这些教程将支持自定进度的教学，学生和对话代理可以参与教程对话。 这种能力将允许实时干预，这可以帮助学生培养直觉，也将支持与地理上分散的团队合作所需的技术通信。这项研究可以为工程教育提供一个全新的资源，并将深入了解自适应教程策略，可以最有效地支持自定进度的学习。它有可能大大提高交互式学习，分布式学习和分布式技术协作的能力，这些都是更好地教育工程师在全球工作场所工作所需要的。

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.