Collaborative Research: Bringing Problem Solving in the Field into the Classroom: Developing and Assessing Virtual Field Trips for Teaching Sedimentary and Introductory Geology

合作研究：将现场解决问题带入课堂：开发和评估沉积学和入门地质学教学的虚拟实地考察

• 批准号: 1044257
• 负责人: Ping Wang
• 金额: $ 17.27万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 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: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1044257&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Bringing; Problem; Solving

The project is developing, implementing, and assessing new interactive field-based learning materials, in the form of virtual field trips, for teaching undergraduate sedimentary geology and introductory geology. The virtual field trips are being developed for advanced courses and for introductory courses and are based on actual field trips for an upper-level sedimentary geology course. Professional videographers are assisting with the filming, editing, and production of the virtual field trips. The PIs are collaboratively developing and testing the materials at the University of South Florida and at Hillsborough Community College. The inquiry-based teaching strategy that is being implemented is focusing on stimulating the interest of students and enhancing their ability to apply classroom knowledge, make scientific observations, and solve problems in a virtual field setting.A key issue associated with traditional field trips has been their limited ability to reach a large and diverse student population due to the substantial time, cost, and liability involved. Consequently, this project is integrating rapidly evolving web and visualization technologies to eliminate some of the obstacles to student participation, and the resultant virtual field trips are attempting to capture the essence of actual field trips with similar learning goals, exercises, and assignments. Strong formative and summative evaluation strategies are assessing both the project activities and the educational effectiveness of the virtual field trips, and include both qualitative and quantitative evaluation of student learning as a function of the virtual field experiences. As they are tested and refined, the virtual field trips are being disseminated through broadly used web portals utilized by geoscientists, and faculty training workshops at regional and national meetings are actively training others how to utilize the virtual field trips in geoscience courses across the United States.

该项目正在开发、实施和评估新的交互式现场学习材料，以虚拟实地考察的形式，用于本科生沉积地质学和入门地质学的教学。 虚拟实地考察是为高级课程和入门课程开发的，并且基于高级沉积地质学课程的实际实地考察。专业摄像师正在协助虚拟实地考察的拍摄、编辑和制作。 PI 正在南佛罗里达大学和希尔斯伯勒社区学院合作开发和测试这些材料。正在实施的探究式教学策略的重点是激发学生的兴趣，提高他们在虚拟现场环境中应用课堂知识、进行科学观察和解决问题的能力。传统实地考察的一个关键问题是，由于涉及大量的时间、成本和责任，传统实地考察的能力有限，无法接触到大量、多样化的学生群体。 因此，该项目正在集成快速发展的网络和可视化技术，以消除学生参与的一些障碍，并且由此产生的虚拟实地考察试图捕捉具有类似学习目标、练习和作业的实际实地考察的本质。 强有力的形成性和总结性评估策略正在评估项目活动和虚拟实地考察的教育效果，并包括根据虚拟实地经验对学生学习进行定性和定量评估。 随着虚拟实地考察的测试和完善，虚拟实地考察正在通过地球科学家广泛使用的门户网站进行传播，区域和国家会议上的教师培训研讨会正在积极培训其他人如何在美国各地的地球科学课程中利用虚拟实地考察。