Water INTENsE: INteractive TEchNology Education

Water INTENSE：互动技术教育

• 批准号: 1700559
• 负责人: Ellen Bluth
• 金额: $ 78.42万
• 依托单位: Eastern Iowa Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1700559&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Water; INTENsE; INteractive; TEchNology; Education

The Water INTENsE project will increase STEM-based learning and improve workforce training by developing virtual reality (VR) simulated technician curricula in the areas of water technologies and agriculture for students in two-year college associate degree programs around the country. The Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), working with partners in industry and education, will develop and field test VR training modules that are focused on simulating learning situations in the fields of water/wastewater and agriculture/water conservation. The simulations will allow technology students to receive hands-on, applied training in a contextual environment, providing students with practice on virtual real-world equipment when actual field equipment is often cost-prohibitive for most educational institutions. The project will leverage ATEEC's work in occupational analysis, curriculum development, and instructional material projects in water technology. Due to ATEEC's national environmental technology network with industry and education, the project is well positioned to supplement and enhance existing water and agriculture technology curricula, utilize a wide variety of content experts in the field, and determine and fulfill workforce needs. Through its online resource center, ATEEC interacts with two-year colleges across the nation and will disseminate all VR modules through its own well-established online resource center and through additional NSF and ATE channels in an effort to reach as many educators, students, and technicians as possible. Broader use of the simulated modules will result in 1) the ability to reach students that are underrepresented in the STEM fields and 2) an increased number of technicians in water/wastewater and conservation/ag jobs that meet the growing need for a skilled, diverse workforce. Project evaluation will focus on the progress of the development of the VR learning modules, measurement of student performance and their success in the workplace, and dissemination of the learning materials.

Water INTENSE项目将通过为全国两年制大学副学士学位课程的学生开发水技术和农业领域的虚拟现实（VR）模拟技术人员课程，增加基于STEM的学习并改善劳动力培训。先进技术环境和能源中心（ATEEC）将与工业和教育领域的合作伙伴合作，开发和现场测试VR培训模块，重点是模拟水/废水和农业/水资源保护领域的学习情况。模拟将使技术专业的学生能够在情境环境中接受实践应用培训，为学生提供虚拟现实设备的实践，而实际的现场设备对于大多数教育机构来说往往成本高昂。该项目将利用ATEEC在职业分析、课程开发和水技术教材项目方面的工作。由于ATEEC的国家环境技术网络与工业和教育，该项目是很好的定位，以补充和加强现有的水和农业技术课程，利用各种各样的内容专家在该领域，并确定和满足劳动力需求。通过其在线资源中心，ATEEC与全国各地的两年制大学进行互动，并将通过其完善的在线资源中心以及其他NSF和ATE渠道传播所有VR模块，以尽可能多地接触教育工作者，学生和技术人员。更广泛地使用模拟模块将导致1）能够接触到在STEM领域代表性不足的学生，2）增加水/废水和保护/农业工作的技术人员数量，以满足对熟练，多样化劳动力日益增长的需求。项目评估将集中于虚拟现实学习模块的开发进度、衡量学生的表现及其在工作场所的成功，以及学习材料的分发。