COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TAILORED INSTRUCTIONS AND ENGINEERED DELIVERY USING PROTOCOLS (TIED UP)

该项目旨在通过使用协议（TIED UP）的定制教学和工程交付方法，在课堂内外有效地参与课程。一个由STEM教师组成的团队正在使用一个名为“重组电子学习和集成虚拟教育工程课程”（RECEIVE）的模型，将三门工程课程重组为一个集成的模块化概念格式，在这个模型中，复杂的工程概念以网络子概念的形式呈现在网页上，创建一个虚拟神经空间。这些相互关联的子概念中的每一个都进一步与几个学习工具相关联，例如短视频讲座，动画，强制性活动和测验，其设计基于许多协议，这些协议利用了神经和认知科学理论的最新见解。协议是使用认知学习原则进行概念传递时要遵循的系统程序。协议的目标是提高学生引出意义模式的能力。每个概念的教学协议都在寻找可能创建神经网络和突触的最佳策略，这些神经网络和突触本质上构成了学习过程。模块化分解具有挑战性的工程概念，为不同学习速度的学生提供更好的学习体验。TIED UP系统地告知学生在课程中学习什么，以及如何使用协议学习每个概念。这个项目更广泛的影响是，它取代了传统的教学方法，以结果为导向的学生为中心的学习方法，使用基于神经认知学习原则的工程教学策略。

This project is aiming at effective course engagement in and out of a class room through a Tailored Instruction and Engineered Delivery approach Using PROTOCOLs (TIED UP). A team of STEM faculty is restructuring three engineering courses into an integrated modular concept format using a model titled Re-structuring Engineering Courses for E-Learning and Integrated Virtual Education (RECEIVE) where complex engineering concepts are presented as networked sub concepts in a webpage, creating a virtual neural space. Each of these inter connected sub concepts is further linked to several learning tools, such as short video lectures, animations, mandatory activities and quizzes whose designs are based on a number of PROTOCOLs that leverage the latest insights from established theories of neuro and cognitive science. PROTOCOLs are systematic procedures to be followed in a concept delivery using cognitive learning principles. The goal of a PROTOCOL is to enhance students' capacity to elicit patterns of meaning. Instructional PROTOCOLs for each concept are searching for optimum strategies that possibly create neural networks and synapses that essentially constitute the learning process. Modular breakdown of a challenging engineering concept is providing a better learning experience to students who learn at different paces. The TIED UP is systematically informing students about what to learn in a course as well as how to learn each concept using PROTOCOLs. The broader impact of this project is that it replaces traditional instructional methods with an outcome oriented student centered learning approach using engineered instructional strategies based on neuro-cognitive leaning principles.