Collaborative Research: Using Video Media to Enhance Conceptual Learning in an Undergraduate Thermodynamics Course

协作研究：使用视频媒体增强本科热力学课程的概念学习

• 批准号: 1043613
• 负责人: David Silverstein
• 金额: $ 8.4万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1043613&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Using; Video; Media

The project is a collaborative effort involving Manhattan College, University of Kentucky, and Bucknell University that uses the skills possessed by a media savvy generation of students to enhance conceptual learning of thermodynamics. The project is having students develop an instructional video that teaches a concept in thermodynamics using common metaphors, and then watch a similarly constructed instructional video developed by peers at a different institution. The former employs autodidactic learning, while the latter takes advantage of peer-to-peer learning. To measure the effects of these treatments on conceptual learning, the investigators are conducting a baseline assessment using a thermodynamics concept inventory and a post-treatment assessment using a similar instrument. Additionally, student affective domain responses are being measured with a questionnaire. The collection of videos is being made available through prominent springboards, such as the resources section of the AIChE Education Division Website and the NSDL library, and they are being aggressively promoted using a press kit sent out to those who teach thermodynamics and similar courses at other institutions as well as through further distribution of the kit at national conferences (e.g., ASEE and AIChE). Traditional dissemination efforts include faculty workshops at national meetings, conference presentations, and journal publications. Broader impacts include the strong dissemination effort with video postings on YouTube and the aggressive promotion of the approach through various mechanisms.

该项目是涉及曼哈顿学院，肯塔基大学和巴克内尔大学的合作努力，它利用精通媒体的学生所拥有的技能来增强热力学的概念学习。 该项目让学生开发一个教学视频，该视频使用常见的隐喻来教授热力学的概念，然后观看另一家机构的同伴开发的类似构建的教学视频。前者采用自动学习学习，而后者则利用对等学习。为了衡量这些治疗对概念学习的影响，研究人员使用热力学概念清单和使用类似工具的治疗后评估进行了基线评估。此外，还通过问卷调查来衡量学生情感领域的反应。 正在通过著名的跳板进行视频收集，例如AICHE教育部门网站和NSDL图书馆的资源部分，他们正在使用向其他机构教授热力学和类似课程的新闻套件以及通过National Contrences在National Chorences进行进一步分发（例如，ASEE和AICHECE和AICHICE）的新闻套件进行了积极的促进。 传统的传播工作包括在国家会议，会议演讲和期刊出版物上的教师讲习班。 更广泛的影响包括在YouTube上的视频发布以及通过各种机制对方法的积极推广。