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

该项目正在开发基于网络的活动和互动视频，以激励物理和工程专业的本科生在高级实验室工作，建立处理实验室中遇到的技术方面的信心，并加强多门课程的当代主题教学。尽管高级物理实验室的角色在不同的机构之间可能有很大的不同，但在每个环境中，成功的实验室体验应该努力争取具有教育意义和启发性的创造性学生体验。本项目中的活动提供了一个交互式视频环境，在该环境中，学生可以了解高级实验室中的重要主题区域，并能够交互控制测试参数。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。这些练习旨在提供一个类似于实验室的交互式环境，专注于实验主题的本质，但剥离了真实实验体验的许多复杂性。这些活动旨在丰富学习和学生对高级实验主题的热情，提供坚实的物理入门框架，并在实际实验室中带来更有意义的体验。该项目的结果是由教师和学生衡量的，这取决于：(A)学生对实验所涉及的物理和技术有更深的了解；(B)学生对实验室作为学习环境的态度有所增强；(C)学生对实验及其所涉及的设备有更好的准备。这个项目的工作集中在三个当代和引人入胜的主题领域，这些领域一直是伯特利大学物理系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，以及(3)等离子体和纳米光学。智力优势：基于网络的资源已经可以通过各种形式提供给物理教育，包括在线讲座、小应用程序和在线模拟，以及基于网络的作业。视频小插曲也在开发中，它提供了一个结合了叙述、真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，因为这里强调基于网络的模拟，其中用户与来自高级实验室实验的视频进行交互。因此，用户与基于Web的视频的交互设计成了一种方式，为了解真正的高级实验室实验提供了一个窗口，并刺激了学习、创造力和实验室的进一步参与。参与的博鳌亚洲大学教师在高级实验室拥有丰富的教学经验，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，他们在互动视频分析方面的工作。正在使用软件工程的最佳做法开发分析软件。更广泛的影响：在这个项目中产生的活动可在ComPADRE.org上公开获得。此外，该软件以开放源码形式提供，并提供完整的文档，使其他机构能够在自己的高级实验室和本科生研究的基础上开展活动，并向更广泛的受众打开高级实验室社区的大门。采用者和潜在采用者可在2014年AAPT大会的研讨会以及其他会议和研讨会(如阿尔法实验室沉浸式)上了解每个主题领域的活动。

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).