Metadocuments as Communicative Artifact to Enable Use of a Research Digital Library in Undergraduate SMET Education

元文档作为交流工具，支持在本科 SMET 教育中使用研究数字图书馆

• 批准号: 0085798
• 负责人: Richard Furuta
• 金额: $ 24.99万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-01 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0085798&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Metadocuments; Communicative; Artifact; Enable; Use

A digital library constructed in support of a research community's activities contains material of direct relevance to undergraduate SMET education. However, its organizational structure reflects the conventions established by the research community, not the needs of the undergraduate student. This project is researching and developing software tools to organize and contextualize information in a research digital library so that it may better reflect the needs of undergraduate learners and the pedagogical goals of faculty. The project uses the metaphor of a "path" or "guided tour" for these organizing and contextualizing tools. The content testbed on which the use of "guided tours" is being demonstrated is a large body of Web-based material centered initially on WWW-based floristics and extended recently to include entomological materials. The tool development extends previous investigations into the application of paths in K-12 classrooms to include the creation of more complex structures, collectively known as metadocuments.

为支持研究团体的活动而建立的数字图书馆包含与本科 SMET 教育直接相关的材料。然而，其组织结构反映了研究界建立的惯例，而不是本科生的需求。该项目正在研究和开发软件工具，用于组织研究型数字图书馆中的信息并使其背景化，以便更好地反映本科学习者的需求和教师的教学目标。该项目使用“路径”或“导游”来比喻这些组织和情境化工具。正在演示“导游”使用的内容测试平台是大量基于网络的材料，最初以基于 WWW 的植物区系为中心，最近扩展到包括昆虫学材料。该工具的开发扩展了之前对 K-12 课堂路径应用的研究，包括创建更复杂的结构，统称为元文档。