Collaborative Research: Networked Collaboration Modules for Integrating Mathematics and Engineering Education Using Intelligent Agents

计算机工程（32）卡耐基梅隆大学和加州大学圣巴巴拉分校之间的合作项目扩展了CCLI I型项目，该项目成功地展示了在本科一年级和中学拓展环境中将交互式对话技术与基于计算机的教学相结合。第一类项目的结果还表明，如果学生在提供上下文敏感结构以支持协作的在线环境中工作，则该技术的好处可以得到增强。这个项目正在创建智能代理监控、基于互联网聊天的模块，用于将数学和工程整合到本科工程课程中。该项目还建立在美国国家科学基金会之前资助的赖特州立大学的研究基础上，该研究表明，在工程应用的背景下学习数学可以提高学生在后续课程中这两门学科的成绩。该项目在基于智能代理的系统中实现模块，涵盖了工程环境中微分、积分和微分方程的数学。一名独立的评估人员正在对这些模块及其对特定学生学习成果的影响进行严格的评估。这些模块可通过该项目的网站免费下载，研究结果可通过会议和期刊出版物传播。这些模块还被用于向中学生推广，以提高他们对科学和工程的兴趣。

Computer Engineering (32)This collaborative project between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California Santa Barbara is expanding a CCLI Type I project that successfully demonstrated the integration of interactive dialogue technology with computer-based instruction in first-year undergraduate and middle school outreach environments. Results from the Type I project also showed that the benefits of this technology can be enhanced if students work in on-line environments that provide context-sensitive structuring to support collaboration. This project is creating intelligent agent-monitored, internet chat-based modules for integrating mathematics and engineering in undergraduate engineering curricula. The project is also building on prior NSF funded work at Wright State University that demonstrated that learning mathematics in the context of engineering applications leads to increased student achievement in both subjects in subsequent courses. The project is implementing modules in the intelligent agent-based system covering the mathematics of differentiation, integration, and differential equations in engineering contexts. An independent evaluator is conducting a rigorous evaluation of the modules and their impact on specific student learning outcomes. The modules are being made available for free download via the project's website and the study results disseminated through conference and journal publications. The modules are also being used in an outreach effort to middle school students in an effort to increase their interest in science and engineering.