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PhET Interactive Simulations, a project at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a non-profit〔(Support PhET )〕 open educational resource (OER) project founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman. PhET began with Wieman’s vision to improve the way science is taught and learned. Their stated mission is "To advance science and math literacy and education worldwide through free interactive simulations." The project acronym "PhET" originally stood for "Physics Education Technology," but PhET soon expanded to other disciplines. The project now designs, develops, and releases over 125 free interactive simulations for educational use in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and mathematics. The simulations have been translated into over 65 different languages, including Spanish, Chinese, German, and Arabic; and in 2011, the PhET website received over 25 million visitors. In October 2011, PhET Interactive Simulations was chosen as the 2011 Microsoft Education Tech Award laureate. The Tech Awards, presented by The Tech Museum of Innovation, honor innovators from around the world for technology benefitting humanity. ==History== In 2001, Wieman won the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Eric Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle for fundamental studies of the Bose-Einstein condensate.〔http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2001/public.html〕 After winning his Nobel prize, Wieman became particularly involved with efforts at improving science education and has conducted educational research on science instruction. He helped write Physics 2000〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl )〕 to provide simulations to explain his work in creating the Bose-Einstein Condensate. As he gave public lectures, some incorporating simulations, he noticed that "often the simulations would be the primary thing people would remember from my talk. Based on their questions and comments, it appeared that they consistently learned the physics represented in the simulations." He then used money from a grant from the National Science Foundation Distinguished Teaching Scholars program, the Kavli Foundation, and a portion of his Nobel Prize money to found PhET to improve the way that physics is taught and learned. The PhET simulations differ from the Physics 2000 ones because users can interact with the simulation to change conditions whereas the Physics 2000 simulations are just videos. In 2007, Wieman moved to Vancouver, British Columbia while retaining 20% faculty position at the University of Colorado Boulder. The current director of PhET is Dr. Katherine Perkins. Perkins received her B.A. in 1992 and Ph.D. in 2000 from Harvard University. She has been with PhET since January 2003. Perkins hopes that the simulations’ accessibility and interactive nature will increase scientific literacy and promote student engagement in the classroom. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「PhET Interactive Simulations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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