Distributed Development of a Virtual Science Museum with Guide Applied to Education in Acoustics: First Year's Experience

Introduction New technologies  new forms of learning: personal experience learning to learn group exercise virtual experiments

Major goal Major goal Develop learning environment for specialized studies using these new possibilities Requirements: flexible level of depth thematic/problem guided approach tune to needs studentgroup

Distributed development –Distributed effort –Different expertise  quality  Partners Internet ? Why?

Distributed development Acoustics Win win philosophy High quality

tip Requirements Script –look and feel

illustration Requirements Script –look and feel

self test Requirements Script –look and feel

Requirements Script –look and feel –used technologies html & Java wide dissemination internet & CD-rom

Requirements Script –look and feel –used technologies –didactical principles flexible level of depth level 1  general background level 2  practical applications level 3  detailed study

Requirements Script –look and feel –used technologies Script –look and feel –used technologies –didactical principles Review –to assure the script is followed –to assure high standards

Science Museum Acoustics Science Museum

central web for developed material thematic, library like way no course structure

Science Museum guide

Guide Java-applet intelligent browser What? course noise pollution course building acoustics definition illustration self test application illustration application definition case study introductory example self test case study experiment

Guide navigatio n

Guide place in course table of contents

Guide

Guide symbols definitions course web

Examples look

Examples Measureme nt instruments

Examples Draw Change parameters

Conclusions & future “distributed museum with guide” –flexible and cost-effective –allows new ways of learning future –new functionality's in guide (database,…) –wider cooperation network