SBIR Phase I: Social Marketplace for E-learning

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段研究项目旨在创建第一个电子学习社交社区，使专业人士和业余爱好者能够通过协作和社交互动生成，分发和分享更有效的电子学习体验。该应用程序侧重于高等教育。该社区将包括学生，教师和校友从事点对点辅导关系，提供和消费的补充指令的形式，用户生成的教程。具体来说，SBIR第一阶段项目将通过与一家主要机构的试点部署来证明这一概念的可行性，并使用一系列规则来评估技术、用户体验和市场可行性。该研究项目将联合收割机理论和实践相结合，在一个无缝的用户友好的环境，将授权个人用户学习，创造和分享他们的知识。电子学习市场正面临着所谓的Web 2.0社会社区的颠覆性变化。据领先的市场分析师称，供应链植根于旧的商业惯例，无法满足新买家的需求。需要重大的技术和商业创新，将用户生成的内容引入这一市场，同时保持材料的质量和电子学习软件设计的认知原则。该研究项目的成果将提供一个平台，以实现这一变化，建立一个同行对同行的学习社区，将产生各种各样的学习材料，提供个性化的学习经验，其成员。利用群众的智慧，该平台将使学生，教师和校友参与全国性的对话，重点是学习，创建和分享一系列和数量的电子学习材料，这是迄今为止还不可行的。这将对教育产生重大和持续的影响。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I research project seeks to create the first social community for e-learning, enabling professionals and amateurs to generate, distribute, and share more effective e-learning experiences through collaboration and social interaction. The application is focused on higher education. The community will include students, faculty and alumni engaged in peer-to-peer tutoring relationships, providing and consuming supplementary instruction in the form of user-generated tutorials. Specifically this SBIR Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of the concept using a pilot deployment with a major institution, using a range of rubrics to evaluate the technology, user experience, and market viability. The research project will combine both theory and practice in a seamless user-friendly environment that will empower the individual user to learn, create and share their knowledge.The e-learning market is facing disruptive change from so-called Web 2.0 social communities. According to leading market analysts, the supply chain is rooted in old business practices and unable to meet the needs of the new buyers. Significant technical and business innovation is required to introduce user-generated content into this market, while maintaining quality of materials and cognitive principles of e-learning software design. The outcome of the research project will provide a platform to accomplish this change, creating a peer-to-peer learning community that will generate a diversity of learning materials to provide individualized learning experiences to its members. Leveraging the wisdom of crowds, the platform will enable students, faculty and alumni to engage in a national conversation focused on learning, creating and sharing a range and quantity of e-learning materials that has not been feasible till now. This will have significant and sustained impact on education.