iCollaborate - MSE

该项目的目标是使用iPod Touch将材料科学与工程（MSE）入门课程从演绎实践转变为归纳教学环境。研究人员正在为iPod Touch开发六个多部分的MSE教育应用程序，旨在促进和支持六个新的协作和创新的主动学习模块，这些模块针对特定的学生学习目标，这些目标对于许多MSE课程的学生来说是具有挑战性的。他们假设，在协作小组中使用这些主动模块与来自iPod Touch的数据、视觉、音频和信息，将有助于提高学生的学习、参与度和保留率，特别是对女性和其他工程技术项目中代表性不足的群体。这个项目的MSE教育应用程序通过苹果应用程序商店免费传播，并在网络上作为Wiki提供给所有其他人。评估工作在外部评估人员的指导下，使用课前和课后的概念评估，考试和研究论文的分数，以及对这些学生产品的主要特征分析。更广泛的影响包括大力宣传和关注代表性不足的群体。

The goal of the project is to use the iPod Touch to transform an introductory material science and engineering (MSE) course from a deductive practice to an inductive teaching and learning environment. The investigators are developing six multi-part MSE education applications for the iPod Touch that are designed to facilitate and support six new collaborative and innovative active learning modules that target specific student learning objectives which are known to be challenging for many students in MSE courses. They hypothesize that using these active modules in collaborative groups with data, visuals, audio, and information from the iPod Touch, will lead to improvements in student learning, engagement and retention, especially for women and other underrepresented groups in engineering technology programs. MSE education applications for this project are being freely disseminated through the Apple Applications store and are available to all others on the web as a Wiki. The evaluation effort, under the direction of an outside evaluator, is using pre- and post-course concept evaluations, grades on exams and research papers, and primary trait analyses on these student products. Broader impacts include a significant dissemination effort and the focus on underrepresented groups.