SBIR Phase II: Enabling Pedagogical Choice and Cost-Efficiency in the Development of Web-based Curricula

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目将建立一个基于Web的第一个发布的内容创作和交付系统，该系统支持多种教学实践方法，并提供高效、易于使用的方法，课程设计者可以使用这些方法来使用系统功能。具体地说，该项目将继续在第一阶段开始并被证明是可行的工作，以创建在线创作和补充课程管理系统，这些系统具有创新的教学设计人员立即可以使用的特点和好处。其目标是通过具有成本效益的方法开发以技术为媒介的教学，以制作新的内容，并将重点放在支持教学设计创新而不损害技术的能力上。目标是一项创新，使内容提供商能够使用有原则的学习理论和教学实践来创建支持技术中介教学的新在线课程。该项目将产生一种新型的创作和交付系统，其中可用于创建课程结构的功能；管理多媒体内容开发；将课程规范转换为可靠的生产交付；以及为学习者及其教师或导师访问与课程相关的活动，包括动态学习交互和实时行为跟踪和报告，反映作者首选的学习理论和教学。该项目寻求提供一套使能工具，通过具有成本效益的内容制作方法支持技术中介教学的开发，重点支持教学设计创新，而不损害技术的能力。研究结果的商业应用是向内容开发商、出版商以及初中和高中、学区和其他本地实体销售和许可创建的系统，包括内容和不带内容的系统，供希望为实践社区创建和发布内容和评估的个人和团体使用，并受到成本和时间限制的阻碍。由此产生的系统将解决教育中的一个主要问题：将内容开发和传播合并到少数出版集团手中，并因此而缺乏质量和选择的多样性。有了可扩展的创作系统，该公司将定位于利用既支持新业务开发又支持出版商和电子学习提供商的传统资产的商业模式进入一个巨大的市场，并为许多其他类型的内容提供商创造重大的新机会。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will build a first-release Web-based system for content authoring and delivery that supports multiple approaches to pedagogical practice and provides efficient, easy to use methodologies with which course designers can employ system capabilities. Specifically, this project will continue the work started and demonstrated to be feasible in Phase I to create online authoring and complementary course management systems, which have features and benefits that are immediately available to innovative instructional designers. The goal is to enable the development of technology-mediated instruction through cost-effective means for producing new content and to do so with a focus on supporting instructional design innovation without compromising the capabilities of the technology. The goal is an innovation that will empower content providers to use principled learning theories and pedagogical practices for creating new online curricula that support technology-mediated instruction. The project will produce a new type of authoring and delivery system in which the functionality available to create course structure; manage multimedia content development; translate course specification into reliable production delivery; and access course-related activities for learners and their teachers or mentors, including dynamic learning interactions and real-time behavior tracking and reporting reflects the authors' preferred learning theories and pedagogies.This project seeks to provide a set of enabling tools that support the development of technology-mediated instruction through cost-effective means for producing content, focused on supporting instructional design innovation without compromising the capabilities of the technology. The commercial applications of the research result are sales and licenses of the created systems, both with and without content, to content developers, publishers, and also middle and high schools, districts, and other local entities for use by individuals and groups who desire to create and to publish content and assessments for communities of practice and who are impeded by cost and time constraints. The resulting systems will address a major problem in education: the consolidation of content development and dissemination in the hands of a small number of publishing conglomerates and the consequent lack of quality and diversity of choice that have been a result of that consolidation. With an extensible authoring system, the company would be positioned to tap into a large market with a business model that supports both new business development and the legacy assets of publishers and eLearning providers, and to create major new opportunities for many other types of content providers.