SBIR Phase II: Social Marketplace for E-learning

SBIR 第二阶段：电子学习社交市场

• 批准号: 0923847
• 负责人: Christopher Sprague
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Inquus Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0923847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Social; Marketplace

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project seeks to create the first on-line social studying platform that allows students to connect, share and learn together. The application is focused on high school and college students. The proposed platform, called OpenStudy, combines both theory and practice in a seamless user-friendly environment that empowers the individual user to learn, create and share their knowledge. OpenStudy will make education accessible, by connecting students of varying levels of expertise, age, location, and social graph; and fun, by providing a social learning experience with peer-to-peer sharing and validation.In the face of globalization and Thomas Friedman's 'flat earth' economy, competing through education is a fundamental need whose importance is being recognized at a national level. Students and educators alike recognize the need for innovative technologies in addressing this problem. Yet according to leading market analysts, the e-learning supply chain is rooted in old business practices and unable to meet the needs of the new buyers. 'The State of Our Nation's Youth' survey reports that high school students feel the pressure to compete with better grades. Despite the rapid adoption of learning management systems by institutions and of social networks by individual students, there is no systematic solution to this problem nor an application in the education field. Significant technical and business innovation is required to introduce a solution to this problem. The OpenStudy platform seeks to accomplish this change by creating a peer-to-peer learning community to provide a social learning experience for its members. Leveraging the wisdom of a community, OpenStudy will enable students, faculty and alumni to engage in a national conversation focused on learning.

该奖项根据 2009 年《美国复苏和再投资法案》（公法 111-5）提供资助。这个小型企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第二阶段项目旨在创建第一个在线社交学习平台，让学生能够相互联系、分享和学习。该应用程序主要针对高中生和大学生。拟议的平台称为 OpenStudy，将理论和实践结合在一个无缝的用户友好环境中，使个人用户能够学习、创造和分享他们的知识。 OpenStudy 将通过连接不同专业水平、年龄、地点和社交图谱的学生，让教育变得更容易获得；面对全球化和托马斯·弗里德曼的“平地球”经济，通过教育进行竞争是一项基本需求，其重要性正在国家层面得到认识。学生和教育工作者都认识到解决这一问题需要创新技术。然而，根据领先的市场分析师的说法，电子学习供应链植根于旧的商业惯例，无法满足新买家的需求。 “我国青年状况”调查报告称，高中生感受到了争取更好成绩的压力。尽管学习管理系统被机构和学生个人迅速采用，但这个问题还没有系统的解决方案，也没有在教育领域的应用。需要重大的技术和业务创新来解决这个问题。 OpenStudy 平台旨在通过创建点对点学习社区为其成员提供社交学习体验来实现这一变革。 OpenStudy 充分利用社区的智慧，让学生、教师和校友能够参与到以学习为主题的全国性对话中。