Supporting Collaboration in Engineering Education (SCEE)

该项目的目标是通过构建、实施和评估在线工程教育协作环境(EECA)工具的有效性来支持工程课程的协作学习。EECA是一个互联网环境，在这个环境中，工程教育工作者可以在协作教练的帮助下，设计与其课程相关的有效协作学习活动。EECA自动将这些活动映射到基于维基的协作环境中，在该环境中，学生协商协作任务，做出决策，并在团队成员之间建立共享的知识。该项目组正在密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校和弗吉尼亚理工大学设计和实施欧洲经委会工具。正在使用不同类别环境中的多种数据来源来评价欧洲经委会工具的效力。还在努力向工程教育工作者提供欧洲教育方案工具，供他们在课堂上试用。

The goal of this project is to support collaborative learning in engineering courses by constructing, implementing, and evaluating the effectiveness of an online Engineering Education Collaboration Environment (EECE) tool. The EECE is an Internet environment in which engineering educators, with the help of a Collaborative Coach, can design effective collaborative learning activities relevant to their curriculum. The EECE automatically maps those activities onto a wiki-based collaborative environment, in which students negotiate collaborative tasks, make decisions, and build shared knowledge among team members. The project team is designing and implementing the EECE tool at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Virginia Tech. Multiple data sources in diverse class settings are being used to evaluate the effectiveness of the EECE tool. Efforts are also being made to make the EECE tool available to engineering educators for trial in their classrooms.