Coordination Funds

协调基金

• 批准号: 520831258
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftspädagogik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/520831258?language=en
• 关键词: Coordination; Funds

Students in higher education are learning increasingly online, and in recent surveys they claim the Internet is their main source of information for completing course-related assignments. In contrast to formal, on-site or electronic learning environments moderated by a lecturer who preselects learning materials, self-directed online studying requires a particular skillset to determine which sources are reliable as learning materials and which information is accurate. Despite the large body of research on media use in formal teaching-learning settings, little is known about students’ self-directed learning on the Internet, their processing and selection of online information, and the key influences on students’ use of online sources in higher education. To determine how the Internet can be used as an effective tool for learning and thereby improve chances of learning success, we investigate the following: (1) the key skills university students in two major disciplines - economics and medicine (including social sciences and physics as comparison disciplines) - require to use online information critically, that is, to search for, acquire, select, evaluate, and reason from it to draw warranted conclusions, build (more) reliable knowledge, complete course-related tasks, and solve generic or domain-specific ‘critical information problems’ online (generic and domain-specific ‘Critical Online Reasoning’ (COR)); (2) the characteristics of the online sources and content university students select for learning about course-related topics (online ‘Information Landscape’), including accuracy and comprehensibility, media and linguistic features, narrative frames, and latent meaning structures, and how they influence students’ source use in higher education; and (3) the relationship between (1) the development of students’ COR skills over the course of their studies, (2) the features of the online Information Landscape students use for their learning, and (3) students’ learning success in higher education. Based on the FOR’s extensive prior work, including the development of validated models and assessments, the longitudinal research conducted here combines the strengths of numerous disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches and involves qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods analyses to generate new integrative theories and models, timely research findings, and a unique educational research dataset that offer a new path for long-term research and development in higher education. Findings from the 1st phase will be used during the 2nd phase to devise innovative instructional interventions to help university students develop the COR skills needed to search for, critically assess, and use online information in higher education. These interventions will help universities adapt to the rapidly growing trend of Internet-based learning and fulfill their educational mandate in times of increasing digitalization in higher education in the Information Age.

高等教育学生越来越多地在线学习，在最近的调查中，他们声称互联网是他们完成课程相关作业的主要信息来源。与由讲师预先选择学习材料的正式、现场或电子学习环境相比，自主在线学习需要特定的技能来确定哪些来源作为学习材料是可靠的以及哪些信息是准确的。尽管有大量关于正式教学环境中媒体使用的研究，但人们对学生在互联网上的自主学习、他们对在线信息的处理和选择以及对学生在高等教育中使用在线资源的关键影响知之甚少。为了确定如何利用互联网作为有效的学习工具，从而提高学习成功的机会，我们进行了以下研究：（1）经济学和医学两大学科（包括社会科学和物理学作为比较学科）大学生的关键技能，要求批判性地使用网络信息，即从中搜索、获取、选择、评估和推理，得出有根据的结论，建立（更）可靠的知识，完成与课程相关的任务， 并在线解决通用或特定领域的“关键信息问题”（通用和特定领域的“关键在线推理”（COR））； （2）大学生学习课程相关主题（在线“信息景观”）时选择的在线资源和内容的特征，包括准确性和可理解性、媒体和语言特征、叙事框架和潜在意义结构，以及它们如何影响学生在高等教育中的资源使用； (3) (1) 学生在学习过程中 COR 技能的发展，(2) 学生用于学习的在线信息景观的特征，以及 (3) 学生在高等教育中的学习成功之间的关系。基于FOR广泛的前期工作，包括开发经过验证的模型和评估，这里进行的纵向研究结合了众多学科和跨学科方法的优势，涉及定性、定量和混合方法分析，以产生新的综合理论和模型、及时的研究结果和独特的教育研究数据集，为高等教育的长期研究和发展提供了新的路径。第一阶段的研究结果将在第二阶段用于设计创新的教学干预措施，帮助大学生培养在高等教育中搜索、批判性评估和使用在线信息所需的 COR 技能。这些干预措施将帮助大学适应快速增长的互联网学习趋势，并在信息时代高等教育数字化程度不断提高的时代履行其教育使命。