Using a Virtual Gaming Environment in Strength of Materials: Increasing Access and Improving Learning Effectiveness

使用虚拟游戏环境强化材料：增加访问并提高学习效率

• 批准号: 1037715
• 负责人: Jon Preston
• 金额: $ 14.96万
• 依托单位: Southern Polytechnic State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1037715&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Using; Virtual; Gaming; Environment; Strength

This engineering education research project seeks to create virtual reality simulations that will allow students to perform laboratory experiments in strength of materials. The project focuses on developing conceptual understanding through realistic simulations, guided by mathematical models of the phenomena being investigated. A key feature of this project is allowing simulations of unsuccessful or dangerous experiments and investigating the efficacy of these as a learning tool.The broader significance and importance of this project will be to demonstrate or disprove the effectiveness of the proposed simulation tool for engendering conceptual understanding in core engineering courses. The project team plans to broadly disseminate the virtual simulation product, making it freely available to the engineering community; dissemination will be supported by a planned workshop. Such dissemination may lower barriers to adoption by schools where limited resources make laboratory experiments problematic.

这个工程教育研究项目旨在创建虚拟现实模拟，使学生能够在材料强度下进行实验室实验。 该项目的重点是通过逼真的模拟来发展概念理解，并以正在研究的现象的数学模型为指导。 该项目的一个主要特点是允许模拟不成功或危险的实验，并调查这些作为学习工具的有效性。该项目的更广泛的意义和重要性将是证明或反驳所提出的模拟工具在核心工程课程中产生概念理解的有效性。 项目小组计划广泛传播虚拟模拟产品，使工程界免费获得;传播工作将得到计划举办的讲习班的支持。 这种传播可能会降低学校采用的障碍，因为学校资源有限，实验室实验很成问题。