SBIR Phase I: weCompute Content Authoring System: Facilitating User-Created Content in an Intelligent Tutoring System

SBIR 第一阶段：weCompute 内容创作系统：在智能辅导系统中促进用户创建内容

• 批准号: 1225632
• 负责人: Christy McGuire
• 金额: $ 4.91万
• 依托单位: Tutor Technologies, inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-12-31 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1225632&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; weCompute; Content; Authoring

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project focuses on the creation of a Teacher Content Authoring System for an Intelligent Tutoring System designed for math, science, and computer science education. Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are becoming an increasingly larger part of the education landscape. EDalytics, LLC is developing a Content Authoring System that allows teachers to integrate their own content into the cognitive modeling architecture of the ITS for computational thinking. The weCompute ITS (wITS) Content Authoring System offers a new perspective to the ITS community, and potentially transform the ways that commercial companies and research institutions approach content creation. The research plan is constructed to solicit teachers? feedback throughout the design stages to ensure their needs are met. This SBIR project focuses on teachers? ability to transform meaningful content that can be easily integrated with pre-created content models in an intelligent tutoring system. An iterative development process including user studies will help tie together content authors and software designers to produce a well-balanced product. Overall, the wITS Content Authoring System has the potential to make content authoring a distributed task in tutoring environments.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is an educational tool that will build an effective pedagogical system for STEM educators that is affordable and accessible to schools and students across the economic spectrum. A major drawback in developing intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) is the enormous investment in expert hours required to build a full library of curriculum content. Ultimately, the customers pay for the ITS publishers to recoup their investment, yet they have no way to adapt that content to their specific needs. Our solution - the the weCompute Content Authoring System - addresses both of these obstacles by improving the weCompute Intelligent Tutoring System (wITS) with a tool that educators and students can afford and modify. In addition, the wITS provides more pedagogical support for schools lacking teachers knowledgeable in the emerging content areas that define 21st century skills. Students will enjoy effective individualized instruction on subjects at low cost, since the curriculum development cost is subsidized by leveraging the power of teachers who already create curriculum materials. The decreased cost of development coupled with the inexpensive web-based delivery mechanism will allow for more content hours and wider dissemination of quality instruction.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的重点是创建一个教师内容创作系统的智能辅导系统，专为数学，科学和计算机科学教育。 智能教学系统（ITS）正在成为教育领域越来越大的一部分。EDalytics，LLC正在开发一个内容创作系统，允许教师将自己的内容整合到ITS的认知建模架构中，以实现计算思维。 weCompute ITS（wITS）内容创作系统为ITS社区提供了一个新的视角，并可能改变商业公司和研究机构处理内容创作的方式。 研究计划是为了征求教师而构建的？在整个设计阶段的反馈，以确保他们的需求得到满足。这个SBIR项目的重点是教师？转换有意义的内容的能力，可以很容易地与智能教学系统中预先创建的内容模型集成。 包括用户研究在内的迭代开发过程将有助于将内容作者和软件设计师联系在一起，以产生一个平衡良好的产品。 总的来说，wITS内容创作系统有潜力使内容创作成为辅导环境中的分布式任务。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是一种教育工具，将为STEM教育工作者建立一个有效的教学系统，该系统对经济范围内的学校和学生都是负担得起的。开发智能教学系统（ITS）的一个主要缺点是建立一个完整的课程内容库所需的专家小时的巨大投资。最终，客户为ITS出版商支付费用以收回投资，但他们无法根据自己的具体需求调整内容。我们的解决方案-weCompute内容创作系统-通过改进weCompute智能辅导系统（wITS）来解决这两个障碍，该工具是教育工作者和学生可以负担和修改的工具。此外，WITS为缺乏对定义21世纪世纪技能的新兴内容领域有知识的教师的学校提供更多的教学支持。学生将以低成本享受有效的个性化科目教学，因为课程开发成本通过利用已经创建课程材料的教师的力量得到补贴。开发成本的降低，加上基于网络的廉价交付机制，将使更多的内容小时和更广泛地传播高质量的教学。