Electron Technologies: Modeling Pico Worlds for New Careers

该项目使用了来自Concord Consortium（一个拥有技术项目的社区学院）和三个ATE中心的经验丰富的课程开发团队，开发了16个实地测试的、交互式的、基于模型和计算机的电子特性和行为学习单元。这些学习单元在光子学、电子学、材料科学、生物技术、先进材料设计、化学和工程技术等广泛的技术课程以及核心科学内容课程中都很有用。该项目正在使用一套广泛的形成性和总结性评估来提高学习单元的有效性。智力上的优点在于该项目(1)专注于为一系列困难的、与电子相关的概念开发材料，(2)在科学教育、认知科学和教育技术的发展中使用研究成果，以及(3)由科学家、研究人员、教育工作者、创新者和行业代表组成的团队，他们是原子尺度建模和活动开发的领导者。更广泛的影响来自课程材料及其配套的专业发展课程和讲习班课程的潜力和适应性。这种影响还体现在通过具有广泛全国覆盖面的公共联机数据库以及通过其他联机图书馆传播这些材料方面。

This project is using an experienced team of curriculum developers from Concord Consortium, a community college with technical programs, and three ATE Centers to develop 16 field-tested, interactive, model- and computer-based learning units on electron properties and behavior. These learning units are useful in a wide range of technical courses such as photonics, electronics, material science, biotechnology, design of advanced materials, and chemical and engineering technology as well as in the core science content courses. The project is using a broad set of formative and summative assessments to improve the effectiveness of the learning units. The intellectual merit rests in the project's (1) focus on developing materials for a broad set of difficult, electron-related concepts, (2) use of research findings in science education, cognitive science, and educational technology in that development, and (3) team of scientists, researchers, educators, innovators, and industry representatives who are leaders in atomic-scale modeling and activity development. The broader impact emerges from the potential and adaptability of the curricular materials along with their accompanying professional development courses and workshop curricula. This impact is also found in the dissemination of these materials though a public, online data base with broad national reach as well as through other online libraries.