Special Projects: Workshop to Establish a Research Agenda in Learning Science and Technology

EIA-0004280van Dam，AndriesBrown University特别项目：建立学习科学和技术研究议程的研讨会该奖项支持一个研讨会，以确定学习科学和技术的主要研究领域，特别是大规模的研究领域，确定最紧迫的研究需求，并提出将这些主题结合到主题中的方法。这是一个及时而非常重要的项目，因为大学和其他提供培训和教育的机构正在努力重新定义他们的教学方法，因为无处不在的高性能计算和网络刚刚开始带来非凡的变化。这个研讨会与NSF和其他机构促进学习联合会(LF)发展的整体努力有关，LF是一个羽翼未丰的研究组织，旨在进行这一领域的研究。按照组织者的设想，学习联合会将仿照半导体行业的Sematech等财团的模式；它将支持由行业、政府、基金会和大学组成的财团进行竞争前的非营利性研究，并将由财团成员管理和治理。LF的目标是通过为跨学科研究团队提供长期、稳定、“大颗粒”的资金来实现项目的临界量。学习基金将资助基础学习、科学和技术以及适当使用技术和实验内容，如学习对象和课程的图书馆。最初的重点将是本科生、研究生和终身学习。其结果将是适应网络环境的下一代学习环境。

EIA-0004280van Dam, AndriesBrown UniversitySpecial Projects: Workshop to Establish a Research Agenda in Learning Science and TechnologyThis award supports a workshop to define major research areas in learning science and technology, in particular at large scale, identifying the most pressing research needs and suggest ways of combining these topics into themes. This is a timely and very important project, as universities and other deliveries of training and education struggle to re-define their teaching methods given the extraordinary changes just beginning due to ubiquitous high-performance computing and networking.This workshop is related to an overall effort by NSF and others to foster the development of the Learning Federation (LF), a fledgling research organization designed to undertake research in this area. As envisioned by the organizers, the Learning Federation will model itself after consortia such as Sematech in the semiconductor industry; it will support pre-competitive, not-for-profit research among a consortium of industry, government, foundations and universities and will be managed and governed by the consortium members. The LF goal is to achieve a critical mass of projects by providing long-term, stable, "large-grain" funding for interdisciplinary research teams. The LF will fund basis learning science and technology as well as appropriate uses of technology and experimental content such as libraries of learning objects and courses. The focus will initially be on undergraduate, graduate, and life-long learning. The result will be a next generation of learning environments suited to a network context.