WebScience: Creating an Active Learner Classroom with WWW Technology to Improve Introductory Science and Mathematics Courses

其他科学NEC（99）项目摘要问题：尽管呼吁科学和数学教育的改革，大多数学生被动地坐在教授的讲座。这种“舞台上的圣人”教育模式被认为不如主动学习者的方法有效。因此，许多受过大学教育的人缺乏在工作场所跟上潮流和参与公共辩论所需的科学素养。这一问题尤其具有破坏性，因为它影响到职前教师。差的教师准备创建一个“文盲的循环”作为准备不足的教师促进新一代的准备不足的students.Objectives：我们正在使用一个课堂测试的策略，促进教师和学生之间的积极学习和沟通，在五个入门和上师课程使用万维网（WWW）。 在三年的实施期内，我们将使8,000多名学生受益，包括SMET专业的学生，职前教师和符合一般科学要求的学生。 该项目的重点是提高学习成绩差的学生和成绩好的学生的学习能力，提高学生的保留率，并提高解决问题的能力、批判性思维、团队合作和沟通技能。 它也专注于职前教师，让他们接触到新的知识，并鼓励他们开始教学作为学生mentors.Methods：这个项目是一个大规模的适应即时教学（JiTT），一个系统，集成技术与主动学习。JiTT是为IUPUI和美国空军学院的物理课程开发的，得到了NSF本科教育部的支持（DUE 975 2365），截至1999年春季，已被其他12个机构采用。 在这个项目中，JiTT正在适应和实施化学，生物和数学课程。在JiTT方法中，学生在每堂课前几个小时使用WWW接收和回答预备问题。 教师的参与成员使用这些学生的反应，结构的教训，为下一次班会。因此，学生参加的课程是基于他们自己的先验知识。 JiTT还使用网络提供丰富的材料，并增加学生和教师之间的互动。 该项目正在与其他教师合作，帮助他们学习JiTT系统，随着项目的成熟，该项目将进一步开展教师发展工作。

Other Sciences NEC (99)PROJECT SUMMARYProblem: Despite calls for reform in science and mathematics education, most students sit passively while professors' lecture. This "sage on stage" mode of education is known to be less effective than active-learner methods. As a result, many college-educated people lack the scientific literacy needed to keep up in the workplace and to participate in public debate. This problem is especially damaging as it affects pre-service teachers. Poor teacher preparation creates a "cycle of illiteracy" as underprepared teachers promote new generations of underprepared students.Objectives: We are using a classroom tested strategy that fosters active learning and communication among faculty and students in five introductory and upper division courses using the World Wide Web (WWW). During the 3-year implementation period, we will benefit over 8,000 students including SMET majors, pre-service teachers, and students satisfying general science requirements. The project is focusing on increased learning by both weak and strong students, increased retention, and improved problem-solving, critical thinking, teamwork and communication skills. It is also focused on pre-service teachers, exposing them to new pedagogies, and encouraging them to begin teaching as student mentors.Methods: This project is a large scale adaptation of Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT), a system that integrates technology with active learning. JiTT was developed for physics courses at IUPUI and the US Air Force Academy with support from the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE 975 2365) and has been adopted at 12 other institutions as of Spring, 1999. In this project, JiTT is being adapted and implemented in chemistry, biology and mathematics courses. In the JiTT approach, students use the WWW to receive and answer preparatory questions a few hours before each class. Participating members of the faculty use these student responses to structure lessons for the next class meeting. Thus, students participate in a class that is based on their own prior knowledge. JiTT also uses the web to deliver enrichment materials and to increase interaction among students and faculty. The project is working with other members of the faculty to help them to learn the JiTT system, and the project will institute further faculty development efforts as the project matures.