Design and Implementation of CAl Title for Learning Basics of AC Electricity

공업계 고등학교 전기이론 교과의 교류의 기본성질 단원에 관한 CAI 교재 설계 및 구현

Many teachers at vocational high schools have had difficulties overcoming the gap between what students know and what students have to achieve in many topics. Mathematics is toughest of all, since most of textbooks in electronics are assuming student's basic knowledge in math. Considering that many students with very low achievements are entering vocational high schools, reality is far from such assumption. Inevitably, we have to face two difficult questions; do we have enough time to teach these kids all the math that they need in two years? If not, what alternatives we should adopt? We just do not have enough time and therefore find out a way to cope with harsh reality. According to our preliminary study, we suggest that multimedia-based CAI may be the best way to attack this problem. From hardware point of view, fortunately, many of vocational high schools are reasonably equipped for multimedia-based education. However there have been hardly any effort to develop courseware for vocational education in Korea. In this paper, a CAI title for learning basic characteristics of alternating current has been designed and implemented. The developed multimedia-based CAI title has been applied with respect to first grade students at local vocational high schools. A survey after classes shows that CAI could help student feel much comfortable with Basic Electricity course and grasp physical understanding much easily. Accordingly we conclude that classes adopting CAI would be of great help to put education in vocational high schools on the right track.

공업계 고등학교 전기이론 교과 중에서 교류전기에 관한 단원은 수학과 물리에 대한 기본적인 이해를 바탕으로 하며 눈에 보이지 않는 다양한 현상들에 대한 개념적인 이해가 요구되는 부분이다. 반면 이를 학습하는 공업계 고등학교 학생들은 교류회로를 이해하는데 필요한 충분한 기초학력을 보유하고 있지 못할 뿐만 아니라 교재 또한 지나치게 이론중심으로 기술되어 있어 대부분의 학생들이 교류회로를 어렵게 느끼도록 하는 원인이 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 교류회로를 이론보다는 원인-결과를 중심으로 설명하고 CAI 교재를 개발하여 교류신호의 기본 성질을 직접 보고 또 가상 실습을 통해 학생들이 보다 쉽게 개념을 파악할 수 있도록 하였다.