SGER: Enabling Wide-Area Network Research in the Science Classroom

这项建议是为探索性小额赠款提供资金，用于整理和总结适用于在科学课堂上使用大规模广域网络的教育电信研究，并将这一信息迅速传播给国家和国家教育网络的促进者。该项目的目的是促进今后在教育电信方面的研究，并整理和提供对全州和全国教育电信网络初期阶段有用的信息。几个州和几个商业组织已经或即将从1991年9月或1992年9月起向学校提供使用大规模电信设施的机会。虽然已经对单个小规模网络和大规模网络的小群体组件进行了大量的研究，但这些研究既不容易获得，也不完全与大规模情况相关。L，到目前为止，我们对以研究为导向的原型网络的基础上扩大规模的影响了解很少。此外，在教育中创建这些新的电信应用程序和新的网络社区的速度也非常快。如果这些发展要成为教学和学习策略方面的建设性进步，这些新的努力就必须以先前的经验和研究为依据。为了及时建立相关信息的基线，建议美国国家科学基金会在1991年4月1日至1991年9月1日期间资助一项有限的研究计划，L先生。该倡议将包括三个部分--现有研究的整理、一个学术网络的示范研究和一个全球规模的K-12网络的示范研究。

This proposal is for exploratory small grant funding for the collation and summary of telecommunications-in-education research applicable to the use of large-scale wide-area networks in the science classroom and the prompt dissemination of that information to the facilitators of state and national education networks. The purpose of this project is to facilitate future research in educational telecommunications, and to collate and provide information useful to the initial phases of state-wide and national telecommunications-in-education networks. Several states, and several commercial organizations are already offering or are about to offer from September 1991 or September 1992 access to large scale telecommunications facilities to schools. Though a considerable amount of research has been done on individual small scale networks and on small group components of large-scale networks, this research is neither easily accessible nor wholly relevant to the large-scale situation. As yet,l we have very little information on the effects of scaling up from the base of research-oriented prototype networks. Also, the creation of these new telecommunications applications and new network communities in education is taking place extremely quickly. If these developments are to be constructive advances in teaching and learning strategies it is imperative that these new efforts should be informed by prior experience and research. In order to establish a baseline of relevant information in a timely fashion, it is proposed that NSF should fund a limited research initiative between April 1, 1991 and September 1,l 1991. The initiative will have three components - the collation of existing research, a demonstration study of an academic network, and a demonstration study of a global-scale K-12 network.