Building an Ecology of Online Laboratories

构建在线实验室生态

• 批准号: 1132813
• 负责人: Jesus del Alamo
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 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: 2011-09-15 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1132813&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Ecology; Online; Laboratories

In this catalytic project, the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is partnering with the Spanish University of Distance Education (UNED) and the University of Deusto, Spain. The first goal is the expansion and integration of MIT?s iLabs Shared Architecture (ISA) with an open source learning management system (LMS) using SCORM standards. The coupling of online labs with LMSs will allow a particular experiment to be customized for multiple educational environments and for the learning objectives of the lab experience to be carefully tracked and evaluated. The second goal is to develop a specification for interoperability between two remote lab architectures (ISA & WebLab-Deusto) and create a plan for infrastructure changes to both architectures to enable interoperability and develop a proof of concept implementation. The increased interoperability between different online lab architectures and learning management systems will both lead to an increasing scalable ecology of online labs. Online laboratories in general have the potential to transform STEM education by enabling students to actively participate in global collaborations through access to unique and exciting laboratories. They enable new communities of researchers and students to explore phenomena, and jointly engage in scientific inquiry with world-wide partners. This project contributes by: 1) creating an interoperability specification that details the requirements to enable the sharing of online laboratory across architectures and will drastically increase the number of labs available; 2) creation of a shared global resource of online labs and sharable curricular materials that students have access to in the course of their academic careers; and 3) engaging students in unique and exciting scientific experiments that will hopefully capture their interest in science and engineering fields.

在这一催化项目中，马萨诸塞州理工学院教育计算倡议中心与西班牙远程教育大学和西班牙德乌斯托大学合作。 第一个目标是扩大和整合麻省理工学院？的iLabs共享架构（伊萨）与使用SCORM标准的开源学习管理系统（LMS）。 在线实验室与LMS的结合将允许为多个教育环境定制特定的实验，并仔细跟踪和评估实验室体验的学习目标。 第二个目标是为两个远程实验室架构（伊萨WebLab-Deusto）之间的互操作性制定规范，并为两个架构的基础设施更改创建计划，以实现互操作性并开发概念验证实施。不同的在线实验室架构和学习管理系统之间的互操作性的增加将导致在线实验室的可扩展性生态的增加。在线实验室通常有潜力改变STEM教育，使学生能够通过访问独特和令人兴奋的实验室积极参与全球合作。它们使新的研究人员和学生社区能够探索现象，并与世界各地的合作伙伴共同参与科学探究。该项目的贡献在于：1）创建一个互操作性规范，详细说明要求，以实现跨架构的在线实验室共享，并将大幅增加可用的实验室数量; 2）创建一个共享的在线实验室和共享课程材料的全球资源，学生可以在他们的学术生涯中访问这些资源;以及3）让学生参与独特和令人兴奋的科学实验，希望能激发他们对科学和工程领域的兴趣。