Collaborative Research: Stochastic Challenge

该项目是德克萨斯理工大学、密苏里科技大学和德克萨斯大学泛美分校共同努力的成果。它正在开发一套多媒体教材和支持机制，为随机过程和应用概率的本科生教学创造一个以知识为中心的学习环境，并无缝地整合到课程中。该项目正在创建高质量的视频剪辑，以挑战学生在协作环境中解决来自行业的实际问题。这些视频与其他辅助材料一起发布在一个项目网站上，这些材料包括维基风格的教程和解决问题的软件。该项目的Facebook页面正在创建，以支持一堵“墙”，在那里，学生们可以协作解决活跃的问题，并从侧面发展专业技能，如团队合作和沟通。调查人员预计，即使没有教师的指导，其他地方的学生也会访问该网站，并将通过维基风格资源的以知识为中心的方面、“墙”讨论以及对正在进行的和存档的问题的审查来学习。该团队正在确保视频中有来自代表性不足群体的学生，以努力提高这些学生群体的兴趣。该项目使用几名外部教员作为设计审查团队来提供指导，一名经验丰富的外部评估员正在使用调查和测试来监控学习结果的进展情况，并使用网站和Facebook访问的数据来监控参与情况。更广泛的影响包括通过网站张贴帖子和使用社交网络传播该项目的产品，并侧重于扩大代表性不足群体的参与。

The project is a collaborative effort involving Texas Tech University, Missouri University of Science and Technology, and University of Texas - Pan American. It is developing a suite of multimedia educational materials and supporting mechanisms to create a knowledge-centered learning environment for the undergraduate instruction of stochastic processes and applied probability that seamlessly integrates into the curriculum. This project is creating high-quality video clips that challenge students to solve real problems from industry in collaborative settings. These videos are being posted on a project website along with other supporting material consisting of wiki-style tutorials and problem-solving software. A Facebook page for the project is being created to support a "wall" where students may collaboratively work on active problems and tangentially develop professional skills, such as teaming and communication. The investigators are anticipating that students at other location, even without their instructors directing them, will visit the site and will learn through the knowledge-centered aspects of the wiki-style resources, "wall" discussions, and review of active and archived problems. The team is making sure that students from underrepresented groups are featured in the videos in an effort to increase the interest among these groups of students. The project is using a few external faculty members as a design review team to provide guidance, and an experienced outside evaluator is using surveys and tests to monitor progress toward the learning outcomes and data on website and Facebook visits to monitor participation. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the project's products through the website postings and the use of social networking and the focus on broadening the participation of underrepresented groups.