OEDG Planning Grant: Expanding Geoscience Diversity: Alternative Field Environments for Non-Traditional Students

OEDG 规划补助金：扩大地球科学多样性：非传统学生的替代现场环境

• 批准号: 0939645
• 负责人: Donald Stredney
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 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: 2009-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0939645&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: OEDG; Planning; Grant; Expanding; Geoscience

This OEDG planning project is exploring new strategies for engaging persons with physical limitations in geologic field work through surrogate, immersive, virtual representations, with the goal of bringing more diverse students into the geosciences. During the initial phase, a partnership between the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and the Advanced Computing Center for Arts andDesign (ACCAD), at Ohio State University (OSU), will design, develop, and present geoscience content material for a pilot workhop focused on cave geology, while investigating the efficacy, perception and transfer for students with limited content knowledge as a result of their lack of direct access to the field environment. The project brings together researchers in the fields of information technologies, Earth science, education, art and design, and disabilities research. Mobility-impaired undergraduate and graduate students are engaged as active participants during development of the educational resources, to ensure their utility with this audience. Additional partners in the project include Ohio's STEM Ability Alliance (OSAA), the Offices of Disability Services at OSU, Wright State University (WSU), Mammoth Caves National Park, the National Cave and Karst Research Institute, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

这个OEDG规划项目正在探索新的战略，通过代理，沉浸式，虚拟表示，使地质实地工作的物理限制的人，使更多的学生进入地球科学的目标。 在初始阶段，俄亥俄州超级计算机中心（OSC）和俄亥俄州州立大学（OSU）的艺术与设计高级计算中心（ACCAD）之间的合作伙伴关系将为一个以洞穴地质学为重点的试点工作站设计、开发和展示地球科学内容材料，同时调查其功效，由于缺乏直接接触实地环境的机会，学生的内容知识有限，因此无法理解和转移。 该项目汇集了信息技术、地球科学、教育、艺术和设计以及残疾研究领域的研究人员。 行动不便的本科生和研究生在教育资源的开发过程中作为积极的参与者，以确保他们的效用与此观众。 该项目的其他合作伙伴包括俄亥俄州的STEM能力联盟（OSAA）、俄勒冈州立大学残疾服务办公室、赖特州立大学（WSU）、猛犸洞穴国家公园、国家洞穴和喀斯特研究所以及国家多发性硬化症协会。