OPES (Open-source Problems in Engineering Studies): Making the WeB WorK

OPES（工程研究中的开源问题）：让 Web 发挥作用

• 批准号: 1244833
• 负责人: Katie Evans
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Louisiana Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1244833&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: OPES; Open; source; Problems; Engineering

The project is expanding the WeBWork homework delivery tool into engineering. It generates a repository of WeBWorK engineering problems for three core, semester-long, sophomore-level engineering courses: Statics and Mechanics of Materials, Electrical Engineering and Circuits, and Thermodynamics. The problem library is being made available worldwide for free public utilization. The project includes a research component to study the effect of online engineering homework on student learning.Due to the electronic nature of the freely available repository, this project has the potential to impact students and faculty from a broad range of schools, including minority institutions, community colleges and non-PhD-granting institutions. The project builds on the success of WeBWorK in mathematics and expands it to engineering. The project team continues to embrace the open-source concept as a means to expand the project and disseminate results, thereby enhancing infrastructure in engineering education. A project website is being created and maintained, which updates the engineering community about assessment studies, journal publications, and training opportunities. In addition to in-house training, a two-day workshop is being hosted for ten external participants, and a workshop is being offered at an American Society for Engineering Education annual meeting. The research and assessment from this project has the potential to shape future directions in engineering education.

该项目正在将WeBWork作业交付工具扩展到工程领域。它生成了一个WeBWorK工程问题库，用于三个学期的核心工程课程：材料静力学与力学、电气工程与电路、热力学。问题库正在全世界免费提供给公众使用。该项目包括一个研究部分，研究在线工程作业对学生学习的影响。由于免费提供知识库的电子性质，该项目有可能影响来自广泛学校的学生和教师，包括少数民族机构、社区学院和非博士学位授予机构。该项目以WeBWorK在数学领域的成功为基础，并将其扩展到工程领域。项目团队继续采用开源概念作为扩展项目和传播结果的手段，从而增强工程教育的基础设施。正在创建和维护一个项目网站，更新工程社区关于评估研究、期刊出版物和培训机会的信息。除了内部培训之外，还为10名外部参与者举办了为期两天的研讨会，并在美国工程教育学会年会上提供了一个研讨会。该项目的研究和评估有可能塑造工程教育的未来方向。