Coalition for Undergraduate Computational Science & Engineering: Proof of Concept

该项目创建了一个合作机构集群，将学生整合到共同的计算科学与工程（CSE）课程中，并使用网络学习技术提供教学。学生们还可以在Embry-Riddle的非线性波实验室的夏季研讨会上进行项目，并在他们的家庭机构使用远程实验室访问完成这些项目。由于很少有小型学院有提供本科CSE课程的资源，该项目显著提高了学生对计算科学的参与。该项目打算通过建立一个集群网络来扩大规模。该项目通过使用研发过程为设计教学和评估学习提供一个连贯的框架来推进CSE的学习，在这个框架中，教学和评估方法与基于模型的学习和推理的共同思想保持一致。此外，通过建立包括虚拟会议系统在内的最先进的网络学习网络，改善了教育基础设施；pc和ipad等多个终端之间的视频通信；自动记录和存档会话；以及远程实验室访问，其中非线性波实验室的所有操作和测量都是远程操作并在线传输的。

The project creates a cluster of collaborating institutions that combine students into common Computational Sciences and Engineering (CSE) classes and uses cyberlearning technologies to deliver instruction. Students also conduct projects that begin in a summer workshop in Embry-Riddle's Nonlinear Wave Lab and complete them at their home institution using remote lab access. Because few small colleges have the resources to provide undergraduate CSE courses, the project significantly increases student participation in computational science. The project intends to scale-up by establishing a network of clusters. The project advances the learning of CSE by using an R&D process to provide a coherent framework for designing instruction and assessing learning in which the instructional and assessment methods are aligned with a common idea: Model-based learning and reasoning. In addition, the educational infrastructure is improved by establishing a state of the art cyberlearning network that includes a virtual conferencing system; video communication between multiple endpoints such as PCs & iPads; automatic recording and archiving of sessions; and remote lab access in which all operations and measurements in the Nonlinear Wave Lab are remotely operational and streamed online.