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

实现网络学习改变教育的力量需要远见、战略和一个积极参与、有才能的社区。需要开展活动来激励社区，完善和锐化前进的道路，并提供一个更加活跃和持续的论坛，以澄清重大思想和具有挑战性的问题。为了满足这一需求，SRI国际将与劳伦斯科学馆（Lawrence Hall of Science）以及美国国家地理学会（National Geographic Society）的大力支持，组织一系列活动，以促进对学习未来的共同愿景，包括系统、人员和技术维度，这些维度对于任何可扩展和持久的教育进步都是相互必需的。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。和TED一样，我们会选出一小部分顶尖的研究人员来做简短、高质量、令人振奋的演讲。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进行，并通过流媒体进行直播，以便当地的网络学习研究社区可以远程参与，并发布在网站上。与维基百科一样，将创建网络学习页面，每个页面都有一个关于网络学习的重要思想和相关研究挑战的摘要。在为期1天的会议之后，将有一个为期1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，为了传播和激发关于视频演讲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。这项工作的目标成果将是(i)一个网络学习研究社区，其参与者来自许多现有的组成社区，并在更广泛的社区中培养对广泛的专业知识和兴趣的认识和欣赏；（ii）持续讨论重大思想、见解和挑战的基础，以帮助这个新的社区定义一个更参与、更清晰的未来愿景；（iii）一个社区资源，可以成为网络学习社区中利益相关者相互联系的网站，并支持研究人员改进实地提出的建议；（iv）在更广泛的领导者群体中，为网络学习提供一种新兴的方向感。这种社区建设和意识有望促进合作，从而引领创新和以研究为基础的方式，利用技术改变教育——无论是正式的还是非正式的，以及终身的教育。

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.