Ubiquitous Contextual Access to STEM Educational Resources (UCASTER)

无处不在的 STEM 教育资源上下文访问 (UCASTER)

• 批准号: 1044161
• 负责人: Robert Robson
• 金额: $ 52.17万
• 依托单位: Eduworks Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1044161&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ubiquitous; Contextual; Access; STEM; Educational

Standards based extensions to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are being developed to provide contextualized and educationally relevant access to NSDL resources from any web page at any time; 2) to enable developers of open education resources to create apps that adapt to a user's context; 3) to facilitate collaboration among classmates and friends by making users aware of likely collaborators. The effort is resulting in an advance in online learning by combining and extending technologies that are in place and in use. The browser extension appears as a button in the browser and is available from any web page. The mini-portal includes (a) key terms relevant to the content of the page and the user's educational level, (b) "apps" such as Jmol, Mathlets, and Physlets that can be used to explore topics on the page, and (c) pointers to colleagues and friends who have recently looked at the same page or related topics. Rolling over a term brings up a definition and clicking on a term retrieves relevant NSDL resources.

正在开发基于标准的Internet Explorer、Mozilla Firefox和Google Chrome扩展，以提供从任何网页随时访问NSDL资源的情景和教育相关访问；2)使开放教育资源的开发者能够创建适应用户上下文的应用程序；3)通过让用户意识到可能的合作者，促进同学和朋友之间的合作。这一努力通过结合和扩展现有和正在使用的技术，推动了在线学习的发展。浏览器扩展在浏览器中显示为按钮，可从任何网页访问。迷你门户包括：(A)与页面内容和用户教育水平相关的关键术语；(B)可用于探索页面主题的JMOL、Mathlets和Physlets等“应用程序”；以及(C)指向最近浏览过同一页面或相关主题的同事和朋友的指针。将鼠标悬停在术语上会调出定义，然后单击术语可检索相关的NSDL资源。