A School-University Partnership Through Distance & Service Learning

弗吉尼亚理工大学的远程和服务学习项目是该校物理系和弗吉尼亚州西南部高中科学项目之间的合作项目。该项目针对两个相关问题：农村高中和教师在地理上和专业上的隔离，限制了他们利用主要大学的设施、资源和研究发现；高等理科本科生和研究生在学术上的隔离，他们很少或根本没有机会与其高度专业化的科学领域以外的人群交流。该项目设计通过采用远程学习来激发高中生对物理和天文学领域快速发展的兴趣和欣赏来解决这些问题；以及服务学习，通过持续的电子和面对面的互动，让选定的物理学生参与这些信息的传递。该项目将在弗洛伊德县高中进行试点。预计远程和服务学习项目将提高Floyd县高中普通学生的科学素养水平，导致大学先修物理课程的创建，提高弗吉尼亚理工大学物理专业学生的口头、书面和电子沟通技能，并向物理专业学生介绍他们学科的新应用，包括教学职业。项目试点的所有阶段都将被仔细记录下来，从而产生一份使用远程和服务学习技术的学校-学院合作教学指南。

The Distance and Service-Learning Project at Virginia Tech is a partnership between the University's Physics Department and science programs at high schools throughout Southwest Virginia. The Project targets two related problems: the geographic and professional isolation of rural high schools and teachers that limits their access to the facilities, resources and research discoveries of major universities, and the academic isolation of advanced undergraduate and graduate science students who have little or no opportunity to communicate with populations outside of their highly specialized scientific field. The Project design addresses these problems by employing distance learning to stimulate high school students' interest in and appreciation of rapid developments in the fields of physics and astronomy; and service-learning to engage selected physics students in the delivery of this information through ongoing electronic and face-to-face interactions. The Project will be piloted with Floyd County High School. It is expected that the Distance and Service-Learning Project will increase the level of science literacy among the general population of students at Floyd County High School, lead to the creation of an Advanced Placement Physics course, improve the oral, written and electronic communication skills of physics majors at Virginia Tech, and introduce physics majors to new applications of their discipline, including careers in teaching. All phases of the Project Pilot will be carefully documented, leading to the production of a teaching guide for School-College Collaborations using Distance and Service- Learning techniques.