SBIR Phase I: Student Assessment from Mobility Analysis in Virtual World Learning

SBIR 第一阶段：虚拟世界学习中移动性分析的学生评估

• 批准号: 0944559
• 负责人: William Seffens
• 金额: $ 14.31万
• 依托单位: Seftec
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0944559&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Student; Assessment; Mobility

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will measure avatar mobility in an Internet virtual world learning environment to correlate with student educational psychology measures. The project seeks to develop learning experience modules in a virtual world for biology instruction and computer-assisted student assessment with minimal involvement by real world classroom instructors. The intellectual merit of this activity is to assess the extent that educational activities in a virtual environment mimic real world classroom behavior, and hence whether trace analysis of avatar mobility correlates with educational psychology measures of students. The learning modules to be developed can replace the need and expense of real world field trips, for instance, ecology plot surveys or island bio-geography studies. This would lower costs for the biology lab course, and allow the instructor to focus on individual assistance during the sessions.Many educational organizations are experiencing expanding enrollments and decreasing operational budgets in this economic recession. Efficiency and effectiveness are critical areas in managing public, private, and for-profit educational units. The project seeks to develop learning modules for biology instruction and computer-assisted student assessment with minimal overhead by teachers. The targets for these modules are high schools, undergraduate and technical school Biology programs that have associated labs for introductory, environmental, ecology, or genetics courses. The modules replace the need and expense of real world field trips, for instance, ecology, evolution or population growth studies. This project could have broad impact on computer- assisted learning in virtual world environments by providing databases of actual avatar traces. These mobility traces could then be compared with data from other Second Life experiences, simulated traces, or other mobility models such as cell phone, Bluetooth, or GPS traces to study social network models.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将测量化身在互联网虚拟世界学习环境中的移动性，以与学生教育心理学措施相关联。该项目力求在虚拟世界中开发学习经验模块，用于生物教学和计算机辅助学生评估，尽量减少真实的世界课堂教师的参与。该活动的智力价值在于评估虚拟环境中的教育活动模仿真实的世界课堂行为的程度，并且因此评估化身移动性的踪迹分析是否与学生的教育心理学测量相关。将开发的学习单元可以取代真实的世界实地考察的需要和费用，例如，生态地块调查或岛屿生物地理研究。这将降低生物实验室课程的成本，并允许教师在会议期间专注于个人帮助。许多教育机构正在经历扩大招生和减少在这次经济衰退的业务预算。效率和有效性是管理公共，私人和营利性教育单位的关键领域。该项目旨在开发生物教学和计算机辅助学生评估的学习模块，尽量减少教师的间接费用。这些模块的目标是高中，本科和技校生物学课程，这些课程具有相关的实验室，用于介绍，环境，生态或遗传学课程。这些模块取代了真实的世界实地考察的需要和费用，例如生态学，进化或人口增长研究。这个项目可以通过提供真实化身痕迹的数据库，对虚拟世界环境中的计算机辅助学习产生广泛的影响。然后，这些移动轨迹可以与来自其他第二人生体验、模拟轨迹或其他移动模型（如手机、蓝牙或GPS轨迹）的数据进行比较，以研究社交网络模型。