Integrating Method and Theory in Introductory Science Through Multimedia Computing

该项目正在创建一个多媒体计算机网络， 交互式超媒体课件， 在化学和地质学入门课程的实验室。 这 课件补充了当前的实验室经验， 鼓励学生批判性地研究的背景和内容， 他们的实验。 该项目是装备多媒体 实验室有8个计算机工作站， 视频光盘播放器，与文件服务器计算机联网。 项目 利用两个额外的计算机工作站和视频记录 课件开发设备。 使用超媒体创作 软件，正在制作练习集，学生将 实验室实验完成后使用。 这些 基于计算机的练习功能文本，计算机图形，仍然 从实验室实验的实时视频中捕获的图像，图像 视频光盘上的序列和模拟。 做这些 练习，要求学生互动解决问题 与实验室有关。 当学生们做这些练习时 他们使用专家内部的超文本信息数据库， 系统上下文，以逻辑地混合来自讲座的信息， 实验室观察和程序的读数。 这些资金将与非联邦来源的资金相匹配。

This project is creating a multimedia computer network with interactive hypermedia courseware that integrates lectures and laboratories in introductory chemistry and geology courses. This courseware complements current laboratory experiences and encourages students to critically study the context and content of their experiments. The project is equipping a multimedia laboratory with eight computer workstations interfaced with videodisc players, networked to a fileserver computer. The project utilizes two additional computer workstations and video recording equipment for courseware development. Using hypermedia authoring software, sets of exercises are being produced which students will use after completion of laboratory experiments. These computer-based exercises feature text, computer graphics, still images captured from live video of laboratory experiments, image sequences from videodiscs, and simulations. In doing these exercises, students are required to interactively solve problems relating to the laboratory. As students work with these exercises they use a hypertext database of information within an expert system context, to logically blend information from lectures and readings with laboratory observations and procedures.NSF grant funds are being matched with funds from non-Federal sources.