EAGER: Cyberlearning: Towards Virtual Worlds that Afford Knowledge Integration Across Project Challenges and Disciplines

EAGER：网络学习：迈向能够跨项目挑战和学科进行知识整合的虚拟世界

• 批准号: 1550902
• 负责人: Janet Kolodner
• 金额: $ 29.96万
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-10-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1550902&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Cyberlearning; Towards; Virtual; Worlds

The Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies Program funds efforts that will help envision the next generation of learning technologies and advance what we know about how people learn in technology-rich environments. Many efforts have been made to use virtual worlds to teach science concepts that are either inaccessible or impractical in the classroom. This project examines an important question: if a student learns different science topics in the same virtual world over time, will their longer-term, deeper engagement in that virtual world help them build a more integrated understanding of the different subjects? If so, this would help people build more effective virtual worlds for learning, and would also help provide insight into how learners develop either integrated or fragmented understanding of science.The research will include integration of the EcoMUVE ecology learning virtual world with chemistry curriculum derived from the Project-Based Inquiry Science project Living Together. A qualitative exploratory study using middle school classrooms will examine processes related to transfer, grounded in the theory of figured worlds and encoding specificity in case-based reasoning. The qualitative study will focus on conditions that generate intense and sustained emotional engagement in the virtual world, the memories generated by this engagement after the fact, and ways that these memories are triggered in related but different curricular activities. Observation of learners, directly and with lightweight cameras; interviews and challenges designed to be memory probes; and design-based research strategies will be used to work towards design principles for the types of cognitive processes that underly transfer and knowledge integration. The broader impact of the project will be to inform educators and technologists how to better design for long-term, problem-based engagement in science topics and to support transfer and integrated understanding.

网络学习和未来的学习技术计划资助的工作将有助于设想下一代学习技术，并促进我们对人们在技术丰富的环境中学习的了解。已经努力使用虚拟世界来教授课堂上无法访问或不切实际的科学概念。该项目研究了一个重要的问题：如果学生随着时间的流逝在同一虚拟世界中学习不同的科学主题，他们的长期，更深层次的虚拟世界会帮助他们建立对不同主题的更一体化的理解吗？如果是这样，这将有助于人们建立更有效的虚拟世界，并有助于提供有关学习者如何发展对科学的综合或分散理解的洞察力。研究将包括将生态生态学习虚拟世界与来自基于项目的探究科学项目的化学课程的整合。使用中学教室的定性探索性研究将研究与转移有关的过程，该过程基于成像世界理论，并在基于案例的推理中编码特异性。定性研究将集中于在虚拟世界中产生激烈而持续的情感参与的条件，事实之后这种参与产生的记忆以及这些记忆是在相关但不同的课程活动中触发的方式。直接和轻巧的摄像头观察学习者；旨在成为记忆探针的访谈和挑战；基于设计的研究策略将用于为基础转移和知识整合的认知过程类型的设计原理致力于设计原则。该项目的更广泛的影响是通知教育者和技术人员如何更好地设计基于问题的科学主题，并支持转移和综合理解。