Electronic Information Skills for Collaborative Learning in an Undergraduate Geography Curriculum

地理合作实验室是一个地方，本科生，教师和图书馆员走到一起，通过使用电子信息技能的课程主题的协同探索，以提高学习。协作学习作为一种主动学习的方法，使学生与教师和图书馆员在对等的基础上互动。通过使用电子信息技能学习实质性材料有助于学生保留实质性材料和技能。一个部门范围内的电子信息技能的教学框架已经阐明，以帮助地理教师选择适合他们的课程技能。 来自三个非地理信息系统部门的四门课程是该项目的一部分：地理理解和健康，生产和贸易的国际地理，地方经济和市场区，以及世界饥饿和资源开发。一个小组学习区由六个会话工作舱组成，可供三到五名学生使用，每个工作舱配有一台奔腾电脑和21 "显示器，形成了协作配置。显示SVGA投影仪和奔腾工作站支持组项目演示文稿。小组项目的个人工作在学者工作站上进行-带有17个显示器的奔腾机器。 对该项目评估的支持来自校园内的几个单位，包括教育技术学院理事会、本科教育评估办公室、教学发展和研究中心以及课堂支持服务。所有人都对通过电子信息技能开发进行协作学习的独特计算配置感兴趣。

The Geography Collaboratory is a place where undergraduate students, faculty, and librarians come together to enhance learning through synergistic exploration of course topics using electronic information skills. Collaborative learning, as an approach to active learning, engages students on a peer-to-peer basis with instructors and librarians. Learning substantive material through the use of electronic information skills helps students retain both substantive material and skills. A department-wide instructional framework for electronic information skills has been articulated to help geography faculty select skills appropriate to their courses. Four courses from the three non-geographic-information-systems departmental concentrations are part of this project: Geographic Understanding and Health, International Geographies of Production and Trade, Local Economies and Market Areas, and World Hunger and Resource Development. A group learning area composed of six conversation workpods for three to five students, each with a Pentium computer and 21` display monitor, form the configuration for collaboration. An SVGA projector and Pentium workstation support group project presentation displays. Individual work for group projects is carried out at scholar workstations_Pentium machines with 17` display monitors. Support for evaluation of this project comes from several units on campus, including the Faculty Council on Educational Technology, Undergraduate Education Office of Assessment, Center for Instructional Development and Research, and Classroom Support Services. All are interested in the unique computing configuration used for collaborative learning through electronic information skill development.