Collaborative Research: Inspiring undergraduate engagement in advanced laboratories through web-based interactive video

合作研究：通过基于网络的交互式视频激发本科生参与先进实验室

• 批准号: 1245147
• 负责人: Robert Teese
• 金额: $ 4.95万
• 依托单位: Rochester Institute of Tech
• 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: 2013-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1245147&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Inspiring; undergraduate; engagement

This project is developing web-based activities with interactive videos to inspire undergraduates in physics and engineering toward work in the advanced lab, to build confidence in handling the technical aspects encountered in the lab, and to enhance the teaching of contemporary topics across multiple courses. Although the role of advanced physics laboratories can vary significantly from one institution to another, in each environment a successful lab experience should strive for creative student experiences that are both educational and inspiring. The activities in this project provide an interactive video environment where students are introduced to important topic areas in the advanced lab and empowered to interactively control test parameters. Then students can begin the experiments in the laboratory having familiarity with both the physics and the equipment involved.The activities are designed to provide an interactive lab-like environment that focuses on the essence of the lab topic, but is stripped of many of the complexities of the true lab experience. The activities are designed to enrich learning and student enthusiasm in the advanced lab topics, provide a solid introductory framework to the physics, and lead to more meaningful experiences inside the actual laboratory. Results of the project are being measured by instructors and students, and they depend on (a) deeper student understanding of the physics and technology involved in the experiments; (b) enhanced student attitudes toward the lab as a learning environment; and (c) better student facility with the experiment and the equipment involved in it. The work in this project focuses on three contemporary and engaging topic areas that have been the foundation to various student projects in the Bethel University physics department: (1) compressible fluid mechanics, (2) atomic molecular and optical (AMO) physics, and (3) plasmonics and nano-optics. Intellectual Merit: Web-based resources are already available for physics education in a variety of forms including online lectures, applets and online simulations, and web-based homework. Video vignettes are also being developed which provide an online environment that combines narration, real-world video, and analysis tools. The work here differs from these other ongoing projects by emphasizing web-based simulations in which the user interacts with video from advanced laboratory experiments. Consequently, user interactions with the web-based video are designed in a fashion that provide a window into real advanced laboratory experiments and provide a stimulus for learning, creativity, and further engagement in the lab. The participating BU faculty have extensive experience teaching in the advanced laboratory and bring research expertise in the areas of fluid mechanics, AMO physics, and plasmonics and nano-optics. The collaborators from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have been leaders in the physics education community with their work in interactive video analysis. The analysis software is being developed using best practices of software engineering. Broader Impacts: Activities produced in this project are openly available at ComPADRE.org. Additionally, the software is being made available as open source along with complete documentation, enabling other institutions to build activities based on their own advanced labs and undergraduate research and opening the doors of the advanced laboratory community to a broader audience. The activities from each of the topic areas are to be accessible to adopters and potential adopters in a workshop at the 2014 AAPT conference, and at other conferences and workshops (such as the ALPhA Laboratory Immersions).

该项目正在开发基于网络的活动与互动视频，以激励物理和工程专业的本科生在先进的实验室工作，建立在处理实验室中遇到的技术方面的信心，并加强跨多门课程的当代主题的教学。虽然先进物理实验室的作用可以从一个机构到另一个显着不同，在每一个环境中，一个成功的实验室经验应该努力创造性的学生经验，既教育和鼓舞人心。在这个项目中的活动提供了一个互动的视频环境，学生介绍了先进的实验室中的重要主题领域，并授权交互控制测试参数。然后，学生可以在熟悉物理和相关设备的情况下在实验室开始实验。这些活动旨在提供一个类似实验室的互动环境，专注于实验主题的本质，但剥离了许多真正实验室体验的复杂性。 这些活动旨在丰富学生对高级实验室主题的学习和热情，为物理学提供坚实的入门框架，并在实际实验室中获得更有意义的体验。教师和学生正在衡量该项目的成果，这些成果取决于：（a）学生对实验中涉及的物理和技术有更深的理解;（B）提高学生对实验室作为学习环境的态度;以及（c）更好的学生设施与实验和参与其中的设备。在这个项目中的工作重点是三个当代和从事主题领域，已经在伯特利大学物理系的各种学生项目的基础：（1）可压缩流体力学，（2）原子分子和光学（AMO）物理，（3）等离子体和纳米光学。智力优势：基于网络的资源已经以各种形式提供给物理教育，包括在线讲座、小程序和在线模拟以及基于网络的家庭作业。视频短片也正在开发中，它提供了一个结合了叙述、现实世界视频和分析工具的在线环境。这里的工作与其他正在进行的项目不同，强调基于网络的模拟，用户与先进实验室实验的视频进行交互。因此，用户与基于网络的视频的交互以提供进入真实的高级实验室实验的窗口的方式被设计，并且提供对学习、创造力和进一步参与实验室的刺激。参与BU教师在先进的实验室教学经验丰富，并带来了流体力学，AMO物理，等离子体和纳米光学领域的研究专业知识。来自罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）的合作者一直是物理教育界的领导者，他们在交互式视频分析方面的工作。正在利用软件工程的最佳做法开发分析软件。更广泛的影响：此外，该软件作为开放源码沿着完整的文档提供，使其他机构能够根据自己的先进实验室和本科生研究建立活动，并向更广泛的受众打开先进实验室社区的大门。每个主题领域的活动都将在2014年AAPT会议的研讨会以及其他会议和研讨会（如ALPhA实验室沉浸式）上提供给采用者和潜在采用者。