A School-University Partnership Through Distance & Service Learning

学校与大学的远程合作

基本信息

批准号：
9554889
负责人：
Lay Nam Chang
金额：
$ 8.23万
依托单位：
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
1996
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1996-02-15 至 2001-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9554889&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
University Partnership Through Distance &amp

项目摘要

The Distance and Service-Learning Project at Virginia Tech is a partnership between the University's Physics Department and science programs at high schools throughout Southwest Virginia. The Project targets two related problems: the geographic and professional isolation of rural high schools and teachers that limits their access to the facilities, resources and research discoveries of major universities, and the academic isolation of advanced undergraduate and graduate science students who have little or no opportunity to communicate with populations outside of their highly specialized scientific field. The Project design addresses these problems by employing distance learning to stimulate high school students' interest in and appreciation of rapid developments in the fields of physics and astronomy; and service-learning to engage selected physics students in the delivery of this information through ongoing electronic and face-to-face interactions. The Project will be piloted with Floyd County High School. It is expected that the Distance and Service-Learning Project will increase the level of science literacy among the general population of students at Floyd County High School, lead to the creation of an Advanced Placement Physics course, improve the oral, written and electronic communication skills of physics majors at Virginia Tech, and introduce physics majors to new applications of their discipline, including careers in teaching. All phases of the Project Pilot will be carefully documented, leading to the production of a teaching guide for School-College Collaborations using Distance and Service- Learning techniques.

弗吉尼亚理工大学的远程和服务学习项目是该大学物理系与弗吉尼亚州西南部高中科学项目之间的合作伙伴关系。该项目针对两个相关问题：农村高中和教师在地理和专业上的隔离，限制了他们获得主要大学的设施、资源和研究发现的机会；以及高年级本科生和理科研究生的学术隔离，他们几乎没有或没有任何知识。与高度专业化的科学领域之外的人群进行交流的机会。该项目设计通过采用远程学习来激发高中生对物理和天文学领域快速发展的兴趣和欣赏来解决这些问题；和服务学习，让选定的物理学生通过持续的电子和面对面的互动来传递这些信息。该项目将在弗洛伊德县高中进行试点。预计远程和服务学习项目将提高弗洛伊德县高中广大学生的科学素养水平，从而开设大学先修物理课程，提高口头、书面和电子沟通技能弗吉尼亚理工大学物理专业的学生，并向物理专业介绍其学科的新应用，包括教学职业。项目试点的所有阶段都将被仔细记录，从而使用远程和服务学习技术制作校校合作教学指南。