Growth of an Electronic Learning Community in a Science Curriculum Development Project

9353353个ROWE课程开发项目的成功依赖于开发人员和教师之间卓有成效的合作。然而，在许多项目中，试验点分散在全国各地，使得持续的沟通和反馈变得繁琐。因此，项目受到影响，因为开发人员不能及时接收和回应反馈。这个项目的目的是结合中学科学课程开发项目，创建一个可行的电子学习社区。从理论上讲，电子网络的潜在贡献是巨大的。然而，在实践中，几乎没有人幸存下来，也没有人得到足够仔细的研究，以提供有用的知识基础来建立其他人。NSF资助的两个项目将进行合作，一个是在课程方面，另一个是开发了特别适合帮助地理上分散的人一起工作以产生更好结果的通信软件。这项研究的成果之一将是为组建新的电子学习社区编写指导方针。***

9353353 Rowe Curriculum development projects depend for their success on fruitful collaboration between developers and teachers. In many projects, however, trial sites are spread around the country making on going communication and feedback cumbersome. As a result projects suffer because developers do not receive and respond to feedback in a timely manner. The purpose of this project is to create a viable electronic learning community in conjunction with a science curriculum development project for middle schools. In theory the potential contribution of electronic networks is great. In practice, however, few have survived and none have been studied carefully enough to provide a useful knowledge base on which to build others. Two NSF funded projects will collaborate, one in curriculum and one that has developed communication software especially suited to help people who are geographically dispersed work together to produce better results. One product of this study will be the preparation of guidelines for the formation of new electronic learning communities. ***