The Future of MOOCs and Turbocharged Technologies in STEM Education

MOOC 和 STEM 教育涡轮增压技术的未来

• 批准号: 1355101
• 负责人: Ping Hsu
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: San Jose State University Foundation
• 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: 2013-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1355101&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Future; MOOCs; Turbocharged; Technologies; STEM

PROJECT DESCRIPTION This project is conducting a conference to explore the use of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and how to more effectively integrate them into STEM teaching. The overall goal is to explore the future of MOOCs and other disruptive educational technologies in higher education. The conference is allowing STEM educators to share and gain knowledge regarding the advantages and limitations of MOOC implementations to help propagate a better understanding of how MOOCs function and where they best fit into the STEM learning community. It is bringing faculty and technology facilitators together to provide an opportunity for open strategic discussions of disruptive learning technologies and creating an environment that enables and encourages open dialog between university faculty/staff/administrators, representatives from MOOC providers, and other constituents interested in online STEM learning. The project is helping to further an understanding of: 1) the role of MOOCs in modern academia in STEM fields, 2) how to best introduce them into a university setting, and 3) how they may supplement traditional and flipped STEM classrooms. The project is generating a publication that summarizes the discussions, findings and follow-on activities that result from the conference workshop.BROADER SIGNIFICANCE Information garnered throughout the conference is being shared with participants who, in turn, are taking the knowledge back to their institutions and utilizing it to improve teaching and learning in their STEM fields. The project is helping further the understanding of how to best implement MOOCs into traditional academia, in a way that complements institutions, while also providing maximum benefit to students. The knowledge and ability to provide lower cost, high quality STEM education promises not only to produce immediate benefits, but also to help produce more effective, far-reaching, and long-term national STEM results. The participants are sharing the conference information with others in their particular STEM fields and at their institutions, resulting in widespread propagation of MOOC-oriented discussions and knowledge. All conference results and documents are being published on a conference website, along with a summation of the overall findings. Participants are publishing papers and contributing articles as a result of the conference; producing valuable information regarding MOOCs that is being used nationwide on an anytime/anywhere basis by anyone who is interested in exploring new STEM learning environments.

项目描述 该项目正在举办一次会议，探讨大规模开放在线课程 (MOOC) 的使用以及如何更有效地将其融入 STEM 教学。总体目标是探索高等教育中慕课和其他颠覆性教育技术的未来。此次会议让 STEM 教育工作者分享和获取有关 MOOC 实施的优点和局限性的知识，以帮助更好地了解 MOOC 的运作方式以及它们最适合 STEM 学习社区的位置。它将教师和技术推动者聚集在一起，为颠覆性学习技术的公开战略讨论提供机会，并创造一个环境，促进和鼓励大学教师/职员/管理人员、MOOC 提供商的代表和其他对在线 STEM 学习感兴趣的群体之间进行公开对话。该项目有助于进一步了解：1）MOOC 在现代学术界 STEM 领域的作用，2）如何最好地将它们引入大学环境，3）它们如何补充传统和翻转的 STEM 课堂。该项目正在制作一份出版物，总结会议研讨会的讨论、发现和后续活动。 更广泛的意义 会议期间收集的信息正在与参与者分享，而参与者又将知识带回各自的机构，并利用这些知识来改善其 STEM 领域的教学和学习。该项目有助于进一步了解如何在传统学术界最好地实施 MOOC，以补充机构的方式，同时为学生提供最大的利益。提供低成本、高质量 STEM 教育的知识和能力不仅能产生立竿见影的效益，而且有助于产生更有效、更深远和长期的国家 STEM 成果。与会者与各自特定 STEM 领域和机构的其他人分享会议信息，从而广泛传播以 MOOC 为导向的讨论和知识。所有会议结果和文件以及总体调查结果的总结都将在会议网站上发布。与会者发表论文并为会议贡献文章；生成有关 MOOC 的有价值的信息，这些信息可供全国范围内任何有兴趣探索新的 STEM 学习环境的人随时随地使用。