IERI: Tuple Spaces as a Foundation for Collaborative Learning

IERI：元组空间作为协作学习的基础

• 批准号: 0427783
• 负责人: Jeremy Roschelle
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: SRI International
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0427783&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IERI; Tuple; Spaces; Foundation; Collaborative

A multidisciplinary team will examine the application of core distributed system techniques to an important area of social concern: the coordination of multiple learners in educational activities. Increasingly, learners are bringing mobile computing devices to class. Equally importantly, modern educational activities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curricula require learners to take roles, contribute ideas, solve aspects of a larger problem, and work together as a team. These activities imply systematic coordination of learner participation. Yet today's classroom technologies provide only ad hoc solutions to the problem of coordination. Investigators at three complementary institutions will collaborate to determine if the distributed computing concept of tuple spaces can provide a robust, flexible, sustainable solution. This project team will develop methods and knowledge that better align social needs and distributed computational techniques at their foundations, thus addressing "the interactions and complex interdependencies of information systems and social systems". The investigators will build on the recent expansion of the distributed computing concept of tuple spaces to mobile devices and social uses, employing the Java language and handheld or laptop devices. Thus, they will exploit both long-standing and recent advances in data structures, networking, and algorithms to enhance the design of distributed systems that support innovation in STEM education, seeking to maximize educational benefits. This research will investigate the soundness of this alignment, consider expressiveness and performance characteristics, investigate programmer cognition, and evaluate sample applications in educational settings. The technical work will tie to a maturing, cumulative body of research on effective learning in groups. The broader impact of this research lies in the potential for improving math and science education for all students.

一个多学科的团队将研究核心分布式系统技术在社会关注的重要领域的应用：在教育活动中多个学习者的协调。学习者越来越多地将移动计算设备带入课堂。同样重要的是，科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）课程中的现代教育活动要求学习者扮演角色，贡献思想，解决更大问题的各个方面，并作为团队合作。这些活动暗示了学习者参与的系统协调。然而，当今的课堂技术仅为协调问题提供了临时解决方案。三个补充机构的调查人员将合作，以确定元组空间的分布式计算概念是否可以提供强大，灵活，可持续的解决方案。该项目团队将开发方法和知识，以更好地满足社会需求并在其基础上分发计算技术，从而解决“信息系统和社会系统的相互作用和复杂的相互依存关系”。调查人员将基于使用Java语言和手持式或笔记本电脑设备的移动设备和社会用途的分布式计算概念的最近扩展。因此，他们将利用长期和最新的数据结构，网络和算法的进步，以增强支持STEM教育创新的分布式系统的设计，并寻求最大程度地提高教育收益。这项研究将调查这种对齐方式的健全性，考虑表现力和绩效特征，调查程序员认知并评估教育环境中的样本应用。 技术工作将与成熟的，累积的研究团体有关。这项研究的广泛影响在于有可能改善所有学生的数学和科学教育。