WEAVE : Web-based Educational Framework for Analysis, Visualization and Experimentation

我们在杜克大学普拉特工程学院的团队之前已经开发并记录了一个基于网络的固体力学教学系统的原型。我们的基本目标是推动以探究为基础的现代工程分析、实验和设计风格进入本科固体和流体力学课程。我们团队的核心工作是设计和评估一个模块化和便携的框架，这样教师就可以根据我们的基于网络的模型创建一套多样化的实验。为了帮助指导教师采用我们的模型，一本工作手册和附带的CD-ROM正在出版。通过我们的“基于网络的分析、可视化和实验教育框架”（WEAVE）项目，教师们可以选择以模块为基础的项目来补充传统的实验室，旨在鼓励学生比较、对比和改进实际物理实验的模型。每个模块的交互式网络教程将与位于北卡罗来纳州达勒姆的非营利性教育研究基金会Shodor联合开发。WEAVE在工程课程中的部署使学生能够遵循交互式教程，执行数值模拟并进行物理实验。在这些自定进度的实验室中，学生通过直接控制和修改物理实验及其相关的数值模拟，通过试错迭代来探索流体和固体力学的概念。通过口头报告、教育期刊出版物和互联网，我们的材料和研究成果在校园、州和国家层面得到了推广。我们还计划在2003年的“教育前沿”会议上发表演讲。

Engineering - Civil (54)Our team at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University has previously developed and documented a prototype web-based instructional system for solid mechanics. Our basic goal has been to promote an inquiry-based style of modern engineering analysis, experimentation, and design into undergraduate solid and fluid mechanics courses. A central effort of our team's work has been the design and evaluation of a modular and portable framework so that faculty can create a diverse set of experiments based on our web- based model. To help guide faculty toward adoption of our model a workbook and accompanying CD-ROM is being published.Through our project Web-based Educational Framework for Analysis, Visualization, and Experimentation (WEAVE) faculty will have the option of complimenting traditional labs with module-based projects designed to encourage students to compare, contrast, and improve models of actual physical experiments. An interactive web-based tutorial for each module will be developed in conjunction with Shodor, a non-profit educational research foundation based in Durham, N.C. The deployment of WEAVE across the engineering curriculum enables students to follow interactive tutorials, execute numerical simulations, and conduct physical experiments. In these self-paced labs, students explore concepts of fluid and solid mechanics through trial and error iterations by directly controlling and modifying the physical experiments and their associated numerical simulation. The dissemination of our materials and findings has been promoted on our campus, and at the state and national levels through oral presentations, publications in educational journals, and via the Internet. We also plan to present at the Frontiers in Education in 2003.