Collaborative Research: Stochastic Challenge

该项目是由德克萨斯理工大学、密苏里科技大学和德克萨斯泛美大学共同合作完成的。它正在开发一套多媒体教育材料和支持机制，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，无缝集成到课程中。这个项目正在制作高质量的视频片段，挑战学生在协作环境中解决工业中的实际问题。这些视频与其他支持性材料一起发布在一个项目网站上，包括维基风格的教程和解决问题的软件。该项目正在Facebook上建立一个页面，以支持一个“墙”，学生们可以在这里合作解决活跃的问题，并间接地培养专业技能，比如团队合作和沟通。调查人员期望其他地方的学生，即使没有他们的导师指导，也会访问这个网站，并通过维基式资源的以知识为中心的方面、“墙”讨论和对活动和存档问题的回顾来学习。该团队正在确保来自代表性不足群体的学生出现在视频中，以提高这些学生群体的兴趣。该项目使用一些外部教员作为设计审查小组提供指导，一位经验丰富的外部评估人员使用调查和测试来监督学习成果的进展，并使用网站和Facebook访问数据来监督参与情况。更广泛的影响包括通过网站发帖和利用社会网络传播项目产品，并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.