EXP: Digital Lofts: Online Learning Environments for Real-World Innovation

EXP：数字阁楼：现实世界创新的在线学习环境

• 批准号: 1320693
• 负责人: Matthew Easterday
• 金额: $ 54.88万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1320693&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EXP; Digital; Lofts; Online; Learning

In this Cyberlearning: Transforming Education EXP project, researchers focus on developing the civic innovators of the future. To become civic innovators, learners must gain experience tackling complex, ill-structures design challenges that are not easily solved by a single individual within a fixed time frame. Such education is challenging, and these researchers take advantage of Web 2.0, crowdsourcing, badges, and social media to design means of supporting the learning of young engineers as they tackle civic problems. Supporting learning from design and complex problem solving activities includes providing support for successfully solving problems and achieving goals as well as providing support for reflecting on those experiences to grasp the collaboration and communication skills and begin to learn strategies and tactics for innovating. The Digital Loft being designed for this purpose includes facilities for identifying peer experts who might collaborate on new problems, assigning expertise badges to make it easy to identify potential experts, extracting key design principles from design and problem solving cases and illustrating and indexing them in a case library that is made available as a resource, helping participants identify when they need instruction, and providing means of finding appropriate mentors to provide necessary help. Research focuses on the identifying important characteristics of the human-machine learning ecosystem that promote successful design and problem solving, successful learning, successful innovation, and sustainability of the infrastructure. The research will produce empirically-grounded principles for designing Digital Lofts for civic innovation education and advance understanding of the roles that digital badges, crowd-sourcing, learning by cases, design practice, and social networking can play in promoting innovation learning. Research and development is being done in the context of Design for America, a multi-university collaborative focused on promoting civic innovation among undergraduate engineering students.There is an urgent need for educating civic innovators who can solve our greatest societal challenges. This project explores the feasibility of a Digital Loft for supporting such education. In such a learning environment, engineering students at the undergraduate level participate in addressing community issues together with both local students and participants in other locations who are solving problems in their own communities. Software tools support the kinds of interactions between student engineers that are needed to promote success and learning and the creation of shared resources that will allow participants to build community knowledge that will help them become better innovators. Research addresses issues in the design and integration of several software functions for successfully promoting innovation education.

在这个网络学习：转变教育实验项目中，研究人员将重点放在培养未来的公民创新者上。要成为公民创新者，学习者必须获得应对复杂的、结构不良的设计挑战的经验，这些挑战不是单个人可以在固定的时间框架内轻易解决的。这样的教育具有挑战性，这些研究人员利用Web 2.0、众包、徽章和社交媒体来设计方法，支持年轻工程师在解决公民问题时进行学习。支持从设计和复杂问题解决活动中学习，包括为成功解决问题和实现目标提供支持，以及为反思这些经验提供支持，以掌握协作和沟通技能，并开始学习创新的战略和策略。为此目的设计的数字阁楼包括以下设施：识别可能在新问题上合作的同行专家；分配专家徽章以便于识别潜在专家；从设计和解决问题的案例中提取关键设计原则并将其作为资源提供给案例库中的图解和索引；帮助参与者确定他们何时需要指导；以及提供找到适当导师以提供必要帮助的手段。研究的重点是确定人机学习生态系统的重要特征，这些特征可以促进成功的设计和问题解决、成功的学习、成功的创新和基础设施的可持续性。这项研究将为公民创新教育设计数字阁楼提供经验依据的原则，并增进对数字徽章、众包、案例学习、设计实践和社交网络在促进创新学习中所起作用的理解。研究和开发是在为美国设计的背景下进行的，这是一个多所大学合作的组织，专注于在本科工程专业学生中促进公民创新。迫切需要培养能够解决我们最大社会挑战的公民创新者。该项目探索了支持这种教育的数字阁楼的可行性。在这样的学习环境中，本科水平的工程学学生与当地学生和其他地方的参与者一起参与解决社区问题，他们正在解决自己社区的问题。软件工具支持学生工程师之间的互动，这是促进成功和学习所必需的，并支持创建共享资源，使参与者能够建立社区知识，帮助他们成为更好的创新者。研究解决了几个软件功能的设计和集成问题，以成功地促进创新教育。