SGER: Affinity Learning Authoring Tools

国家教育信息技术中心(NCITE)通过CCLI概念验证赠款开发了亲和力学习系统。他们报告说，它已被证明是一个非常有效的教育研究工具，为学生提供了对学习策略和误解的洞察。为了加强这一能力，他们需要资金来大幅加强和修改方案。这样的努力将揭示这些工具是否能得到充分实施，以及它是否会造福于研究，为教育工作者提供信息，并改善在线教育。该项目的目标是设计和试点测试一个创作界面，该界面提供课程组成部分的图形表示，并允许抽象或信息隐藏，以减少亲和力学习设计过程中固有的复杂性；并通过研究新的概念性方法，如基于识别学生误解的分解，来克服课程分解中的内在挑战。这笔赠款使私人投资机构能够克服技术障碍，一旦克服这些障碍，将允许继续发展教育环境和研究方案。这个机会现在就存在，必须完成，才有可能进一步发展。

The National Center for Information Technology in Education (NCITE) has developed the Affinity Learning System through a CCLI proof-of-concept grant. They report that it has proven to be a very effective educational research tool that has provided insight into student learning strategies and misconceptions. In order to build on this capability they need funding to substantially enhance and modify the programming. Such an effort will reveal if the tools can be fully implemented and if it will then serve to benefit research, inform educators and improve online education. The project objectives are to design and pilot-test an authoring interface that provides a graphical representation of lesson components and allows abstraction or information hiding to mitigate the complexity inherent in the Affinity Learning design process; and to overcome intrinsic challenges in lesson decomposition by investigating new conceptual approaches such as basing decomposition on the identification of student misconceptions. This grant allows the PIs to overcome technical barriers that, once accomplished, will allow development of education environments and research protocols to proceed. This opportunity exists now and must be completed before further development is possible.