Imagining the Future of Learning: Systems, People, and Technology

实现网络学习改变教育的力量需要愿景、战略和一个参与的、有才华的社区。需要开展活动来激励社区，完善和加强前进的道路，并提供一个更积极和持续的论坛，以澄清重大想法和具有挑战性的问题。为响应这一需要，SRI国际将与劳伦斯科学馆一起，在国家地理学会的关键支持下，组织一系列活动，以推动对未来学习的共同愿景，包括任何可扩展和持久的教育进步所需的系统、人员和技术层面。这些活动的创新形式受到了TED演讲、维基百科和社交网络的启发。就像在TED一样，一小群顶尖的研究人员将被挑选出来发表非常简短、非常高质量、令人兴奋的演讲。这些网络学习讲座将在华盛顿特区举行的为期一天的峰会上亮相，并发布在网站上，供当地网络学习研究社区远程参与。与维基百科一样，将创建网络学习页面，每个页面都简要介绍了网络学习的一个大想法和相关的研究挑战。在为期一天的会议之后，将举行为期一天的小型研讨会，重点是如何评估网络学习努力、确定进展和确定重要的新方向。最后，为了传播和促进有关视频演讲和维基百科条目的讨论，将在社交网站上创建社区。这项努力的目标成果将是：(I)建立一个网络学习研究社区，参与者来自目前许多组成社区，并培养对更广泛社区中广泛的专业知识和兴趣的认识和欣赏；(Ii)持续讨论重大想法、见解和挑战的基础，以帮助这个新的社区为自己的未来定义一个更积极、更清晰的愿景；(Iii)一个社区资源，可以成为网络学习社区中的利益攸关方相互联系的一个网站，并支持调查人员改进实地生成的建议；以及(Iv)在更广泛的领导者受众中，对网络学习的方向感正在形成。这样的社区建设和意识预计将促进合作，从而导致以创新和研究为基础的方式利用技术改变教育--正式和非正式的，并贯穿终身。

Realizing the power of CyberLearning to transform education will require vision, strategy, and an engaged, talented community. Activities are needed to energize the community, refine and sharpen the path forward, and provide a more active and ongoing forum for clarifying the big ideas and challenging questions. In response to this need, SRI International, together with the Lawrence Hall of Science and with key support from the National Geographic Society, will organize a set of activities to advance a shared vision of the future of learning, encompassing the systems, people, and technology dimensions mutually necessary for any scalable and lasting advances in education. The innovative format for these activities is inspired by the TED talks, Wikipedia, and social networking. As in TED, a small set of leading researchers will be selected to give very short, very high quality, stimulating talks. These CyberLearning Talks will be featured at a 1-day summit meeting in Washington, DC, streamed so that local cyberlearning research communities may participate at a distance, and posted on a website. As in Wikipedia, CyberLearning Pages will be created, each page featuring a synopsis of a big idea in CyberLearning and the relevant research challenges. The 1-day conference will be followed by a small 1-day workshop focusing on how to evaluate cyberlearning efforts, identify progress, and identify important new directions. Finally, to disseminate and stimulate conversation about both the video talks and Wikipedia entries, a presence for the community will be created on social networking sites.The target outcomes of the effort will be (i) a cyberlearning research community with participants from across the many current constituent communities, and fostered awareness and appreciation of the broad range of expertise and interests across that wider community; (ii) foundations for sustained discussion of big ideas, insights, and challenges to help this new community define a more engaged, crisper vision of its own future, (iii) a community resource that can become a site for interconnecting stakeholders in the CyberLearning community and supporting investigators in improving field-generated proposals, and (iv) an emerging sense of direction for CyberLearning among a wider audience of leaders. Such community building and awareness is expected to foster collaborations that will lead to innovative and research-grounded ways of using technology to transform education -- formal and informal and across a lifetime.