Groundwater Interactive: Interdisciplinary Web-Based Software Incorporating New Learning Methodologies and Technologies

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dc.contributor.authorMendez, Eduardoen
dc.contributor.committeechairGallagher, Daniel L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWiddowson, Mark A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberHolzer, Siegfried M.en
dc.contributor.departmentEnvironmental Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:48:14Zen
dc.date.adate2002-12-06en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:48:14Zen
dc.date.issued2002-11-08en
dc.date.rdate2003-12-06en
dc.date.sdate2002-11-22en
dc.description.abstractGroundwater related courses are offered through several colleges at Virginia Tech. These classes enroll a diverse group of students with varied academic backgrounds and educational levels. Though these classes emphasize different aspects of groundwater resources, they lack a unified approach in instructional materials and learning methodologies for knowledge they do share. The goals of this research are to lessen the impact of variable student backgrounds and to better integrate the courses to improve teaching and learning, through the development of a multi-tiered, interdisciplinary website, Groundwater Interactive (GWI). GWI, as an educational technology, employs a variety of interactive multimedia. The primary educational components of the website include interactive and graphical models and quizzes, and a student-authored primer. An implementation strategy based on experiential and cooperative learning models is developed for application of the GWI tool in the classroom. An assessment methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of these new learning methods and techniques was also developed, but was not implemented as part of this work.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-11222002-162254en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11222002-162254/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/35796en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartemendezETD.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectExperiential Learningen
dc.subjectGroundwater Contaminationen
dc.subjectEducational Technologyen
dc.subjectCooperative Learningen
dc.subjectGroundwater Transporten
dc.titleGroundwater Interactive: Interdisciplinary Web-Based Software Incorporating New Learning Methodologies and Technologiesen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineEnvironmental Planningen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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