Innovative Engagement: A Mass Transit Model for Informal Science Learning

创新参与：非正式科学学习的公共交通模型

• 批准号: 1221621
• 负责人: Robert Chen
• 金额: $ 16.41万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Boston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1221621&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Innovative; Engagement; Mass; Transit; Model

Following on the outcomes of an NSF-funded conference to this project's principal investigator, a team of educators, scientists, and communication experts from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Massachusetts Boston, Hofstra, University, the Boston Museum of Science and other professionals is implementing a full-scale development project to investigate the impact of an Out-of-Home Multi-Media (OHMM) exhibit on adults riding Boston's subway system (the "T"). The project's goal is to design, implement, and study the efficacy of an OHMM model for free-choice science learning about our changing climate. A rotating exhibit of twelve specially designed placards, posters, as well as virtual, web-based learning resources linked to the exhibit content will potentially engage over 420,000 adult riders per day along two of the T's four lines. Wireless access throughout light rail systems and the rise of smart phones represent a confluence of factors making an innovative form of engagement possible. The work is positioned to test this new model for informal science education and potentially could be expanded in Boston and into other cities around the country.

继该项目的首席研究员的成果之后正在实施一个全尺度开发项目，以调查户外多媒体（OHMM）展览对骑波士顿地铁系统（“ T”）的成年人的影响。该项目的目标是设计，实施和研究欧姆模型对我们气候变化的自由选择科学学习的功效。旋转的展览会由十二个专门设计的标语牌，海报以及与展览内容相关的虚拟，基于Web的学习资源，可能每天有可能沿着T的四行中的两条互动420,000多名成年骑手。无线访问整个轻轨系统和智能手机的崛起代表了因素的汇合，从而使创新的参与形式成为可能。这项工作可以测试这一新模型的非正式科学教育，并有可能在波士顿和全国其他城市扩展。