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GOODWIN PROFESSORS RECEIVE
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION GRANT, OCTOBER 2, 2006
Goodwin College of Professional Studies faculty
members (from left to right) Drs. Yongjin
(James) Kwon, assistant professor of applied engineering technology; Richard
Chiou, associate professor of applied engineering technology;
Horacio Sosa,
former senior associate dean; and Fredricka
Reisman, professor, received a three-year, $412,484, U.S. Department
of Education (DOED) grant for the project “Enhancement in
Online Laboratory Learning.”
The project aims to enhance online distance laboratory learning
in engineering education. It will do this “through the synergistic
integration of a stereoscopic telepresence system for sufficient
visual and auditory communications,” Dr. Kwon explained. In
order for the students to feel that the laboratory co-exists in
one unified world model, the controls for the remote system will
function in an intuitive and natural manner.
“Its goal is to develop an agent-based tutorial system and
infuse research into the curriculum,” Dr. Kwon said.
The project seeks to overcome the current limitations in online
laboratory education by advancing the understanding of pedagogy
to acquire knowledge of:
• How remotely located, technologically sophisticated systems
work.
• How cognitive learning develops under the lack of face-to-face
interactions with teachers.
• Design assessments that incorporate effective evaluation
methodology from K-12 education research.
In short, Dr. Kwon said, Goodwin’s DOED project will benefit
its partnership schools and other institutions in the nation by
allowing them to share expensive lab facilities with enhanced educational
value through use of the Internet.
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