Collaborative Research: Stochastic Challenge

该项目是一个合作的努力，涉及得克萨斯理工大学，密苏里州科技大学，和得克萨斯大学-泛美。 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教学创造一个以知识为中心的学习环境，并将其无缝地融入课程。 这个项目是创造高品质的视频剪辑，挑战学生解决真实的问题，从工业在协作设置。 这些视频与其他辅助材料（包括维基风格的教程和解决问题的软件）一起沿着张贴在一个项目网站上。正在为该项目创建一个Facebook页面，以支持一个“墙”，学生可以在那里协作解决活跃的问题，并间接地发展专业技能，如团队合作和沟通。研究人员预计，即使没有导师的指导，其他地方的学生也会访问该网站，并通过维基风格的资源、“墙”讨论以及对活动和存档问题的回顾等以知识为中心的方面进行学习。 该团队正在确保来自代表性不足群体的学生在视频中出现，以提高这些学生群体的兴趣。 该项目使用一些外部教师作为设计审查小组提供指导，一名经验丰富的外部评估人员正在使用调查和测试来监测学习成果的进展情况，并使用网站和Facebook访问数据来监测参与情况。 更广泛的影响包括通过网站张贴和使用社交网络传播项目产品，以及注重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.