I-Corps: Interactive Tutoring for Virtualized STEM Labs

I-Corps：虚拟化 STEM 实验室的互动辅导

• 批准号: 1933424
• 负责人: Sue Carter
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1933424&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Interactive; Tutoring; Virtualized; STEM

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to provide educational developers, who may not be familiar with psychological and pedagogical theories, a design framework to help forge a new way of designing learning activities that will engage students and help them to accelerate and solidify their understanding of Science Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) concepts being taught in lab setting. The anticipated improvement of STEM education will be particularly beneficial to learners of disparate backgrounds who are traditionally less likely to pursue STEM degrees and for those who face learning challenges traditionally viewed as disabilities. Success will mean institutions and departments of learning, both academic and corporate, will engage in more efficient ways of instilling knowledge and engendering skills to achieve a better trained and more inclusive STEM work force.This I-Corps project will further develop a framework for the creation of effective educational software running in a three dimensional Virtual Learning Environment. A set of design heuristics has been created that combine existing usability heuristics for general software design, educational software design, and software designed for virtual spaces, along with principles of human learning and memory taken from cognitive science. The applications developed using this framework are Learning Machines that are deployed into a(three dimensional Virtual Learning Space. The effectiveness of these applications are maximized through controlled implementation of evidence based principles of learning and memory during application design and user testing.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该 I-Corps 项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为可能不熟悉心理学和教学理论的教育开发人员提供一个设计框架，帮助打造一种设计学习活动的新方式，吸引学生并帮助他们加速并巩固他们对实验室环境中教授的科学技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 概念的理解。 STEM 教育的预期改进将特别有利于那些传统上不太可能攻读 STEM 学位的不同背景的学习者，以及那些面临传统上被视为残疾的学习挑战的人。 成功将意味着学术和企业的学习机构和部门将采用更有效的方式灌输知识和培养技能，以实现训练有素、更具包容性的 STEM 劳动力。这个 I-Corps 项目将进一步开发一个框架创建在三维虚拟学习环境中运行的有效教育软件。 我们创建了一套设计启发法，将通用软件设计、教育软件设计和虚拟空间设计软件的现有可用性启发法与来自认知科学的人类学习和记忆原理相结合。 使用此框架开发的应用程序是部署到三维虚拟学习空间中的学习机。通过在应用程序设计和用户测试过程中受控地实施基于证据的学习和记忆原则，可以最大限度地提高这些应用程序的有效性。该奖项反映了 NSF法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。