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

实现网络学习的力量，以改变教育将需要远见，战略，并参与，有才华的社区。需要开展各种活动来激励社区，完善和加强前进的道路，并提供一个更积极和持续的论坛，以澄清重大想法和挑战性问题。为了满足这一需求，SRI国际，与劳伦斯科学大厅一起，并在国家地理学会的关键支持下，将组织一系列活动，以推进对学习未来的共同愿景，包括系统，人员和技术方面，这些方面对于教育中任何可扩展和持久的进步都是必要的。这些活动的创新形式受到TED演讲、维基百科和社交网络的启发。就像在TED一样，一小部分领先的研究人员将被选择来做非常简短，非常高质量，刺激性的演讲。这些网络学习讲座将在华盛顿举行的为期一天的首脑会议上播出，以便当地网络学习研究社区可以远程参与，并在网站上发布。与维基百科一样，将创建网络学习页面，每个页面都有一个网络学习的大想法和相关研究挑战的概要。为期一天的会议之后将举行一个为期一天的小型研讨会，重点是如何评估网络学习的努力，确定进展，并确定重要的新方向。最后，为了传播和促进关于视频讲座和维基百科条目的对话，将在社交网站上为社区创建一个存在，这一努力的目标成果将是㈠一个网络学习研究社区，参与者来自目前的许多组成社区，并促进对更广泛社区的广泛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，以帮助这个新社区定义一个更加参与，批判性的未来愿景，（iii）社区资源，可以成为网络学习社区利益相关者相互联系的网站，并支持调查人员改进现场生成的提案，及（iv）更广泛的领导者对网上学习的方向有了新的认识。这种社区建设和认识预计将促进合作，从而导致以创新和以研究为基础的方式利用技术来改变教育-正规和非正规以及终身教育。

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.