Meeting the NAE Grand Challenge: Personalized Learning for Engineering Students through Instruction on Metacognition and Motivation Strategies

这个工程教育研究项目旨在通过创造资源来发展自我导向的终身学习，促进个性化学习，这是美国国家工程院的重大挑战之一。该项目基于对学习方式、动机、终身学习和自我调节学习的研究。该项目确定了终身学习者的四个特征，并试图通过在线学习模块、让学生创建学习材料以及对这些干预措施的有效性进行研究来发展这些特征。由于终身学习是大多数高等教育认证机构所要求的结果，因此这些资源的开发可能被广泛采用，从而对高等教育产生潜在的巨大影响。

This engineering education research project seeks to advance personalize learning, one of the National Academy of Engineering's Grand Challenges, by creating resources to develop self-directed, life-long learning. The project is based on research in learning styles, motivation, life-long learning, and self-regulated learning. The project identifies four characteristics of life-long learners, and seeks to develop these characteristics through on-line learning modules, having students create learning materials, and performing research on the effectiveness of these interventions. Since life-long learning is an outcome required by most higher education accreditation agencies, development of these resources may be widely adopted, and thus have potentially large impact in higher education.