Collaborative Research: Using Video Media to Enhance Conceptual Learning in an Undergraduate Thermodynamics Course

该项目由曼哈顿学院、肯塔基大学和巴克内尔大学合作完成，利用精通媒体的一代学生所拥有的技能来加强热力学的概念学习。这个项目是让学生制作一个教学视频，用常见的比喻来教授热力学的一个概念，然后观看另一个机构的同龄人制作的类似的教学视频。前者采用自主教学的方式，而后者则采用对等学习的方式。为了测量这些治疗对概念学习的影响，研究人员使用热力学概念量表进行了基线评估，并使用类似的工具进行了治疗后评估。此外，学生的情感领域的反应正在测量问卷。这些视频集可以通过一些重要的跳板获得，比如AIChE教育部网站的资源部分和美国国家科学图书馆的图书馆，并且通过向在其他机构教授热力学和类似课程的人发送新闻包，以及通过在国家会议（例如，ASEE和AIChE）上进一步分发工具包，积极地推广这些视频集。传统的传播工作包括在全国会议上的教师研讨会、会议报告和期刊出版物。更广泛的影响包括在YouTube上发布视频的大力传播努力和通过各种机制积极推广这种做法。

The project is a collaborative effort involving Manhattan College, University of Kentucky, and Bucknell University that uses the skills possessed by a media savvy generation of students to enhance conceptual learning of thermodynamics. The project is having students develop an instructional video that teaches a concept in thermodynamics using common metaphors, and then watch a similarly constructed instructional video developed by peers at a different institution. The former employs autodidactic learning, while the latter takes advantage of peer-to-peer learning. To measure the effects of these treatments on conceptual learning, the investigators are conducting a baseline assessment using a thermodynamics concept inventory and a post-treatment assessment using a similar instrument. Additionally, student affective domain responses are being measured with a questionnaire. The collection of videos is being made available through prominent springboards, such as the resources section of the AIChE Education Division Website and the NSDL library, and they are being aggressively promoted using a press kit sent out to those who teach thermodynamics and similar courses at other institutions as well as through further distribution of the kit at national conferences (e.g., ASEE and AIChE). Traditional dissemination efforts include faculty workshops at national meetings, conference presentations, and journal publications. Broader impacts include the strong dissemination effort with video postings on YouTube and the aggressive promotion of the approach through various mechanisms.