I-Corps: Investigating the Viability of an Integrated Tool for Content Creation and Aggregation

向数字化学习的转变正在如火如荼地进行。教学材料市场包括教科书和补充材料；然而，随着内容格式和采用周期的变化，这个市场正在发生变化，但专家预计这一市场在未来几年将保持强劲。所有类型和规模的组织都可以从内容管理策略中受益，因为它们可以调整其实践和基础设施，使其远离仓促组织的网页、有限的访问数据库，或者更糟糕的是--打印在纸上的URL。每年都有数以百万计的高质量数字学习资源被创造出来，但其中只有一小部分被美国教师和学童发现和使用。随着将教室改造成21世纪教育空间的压力越来越大，迫切需要一种工具来提高识别和组织能力，帮助互联网上的大量内容成为创新和引人入胜的教育体验的“大量内容”。拟议的Web2MARC技术具有强烈影响当前和未来市场的潜力。通过像Web2MARC这样的工具，这些组织可以同时保留学习资产，实现数字内容的优势，并打破每次需要更新课程或创建新内容时从头开始重新开发内容的循环。Web2MARC是一个数据库插件，可以安装在教育内容存储库中。该插件将允许用户以元数据记录的形式下载有关内容的信息，元数据记录可以使用共同核心国家标准链接等信息进行定制，并导入到多种类型的内容管理系统中。Web2MARC是一种易于使用的工具，它将允许用户快速、轻松地为数字内容片段创建描述性记录，这些记录可以用关键字标记，使其易于查找和使用。Web2MARC将允许用户轻松有效地将博客文章、状态更新、演示文稿、文章、推文和其他多媒体内容分组到他们最喜欢的汇编网站中：组织网站、个人网站、图书馆目录--用户选择的任何组织和宣传信息的地方。

The move to digital learning is well underway. The instructional materials market includes both textbooks and supplemental materials; however, this market is changing as content formats and adoption cycles change, but experts expect it to remain strong in years to come. Organizations of all kinds and sizes can benefit from content management strategies as they adapt their practices and infrastructures away from hastily organized web pages, limited access databases, or worse--URLs printed on paper. Each year, millions of high quality digital learning resources are created but only a tiny fraction of those materials are found and used by American teachers and school children. With growing pressures to transform classrooms into 21st Century education spaces, desperately needed is a tool to improve identification and organization to help "great piles of stuff" on the Internet become "piles of great stuff" for innovative and engaging educational experiences. The proposed Web2MARC technology has the potential to strongly impact current and future markets.With a tool like the Web2MARC,, these organizations can simultaneously retain learning assets, realize the advantages of digital content, and break the cycle of redeveloping content from the ground up at great expense every time curriculum needs to be updated or new content is created. The Web2MARC is a database plug-in that can be installed in repositories of educational content. The plug-in will allow users to download information about the content in the form of metadata records that can be tailored with information such as Common Core State Standards linkages and imported into many types of content management systems. Web2MARC is an easy-to-use tool that will allow users to quickly and easily create descriptive records for pieces of digital content that can be tagged with keywords that make them easily findable and usable. The Web2MARC will allow users and to easily and efficiently group contents such as blog posts, status updates, presentations, articles, tweets and other multimedia content into their favorite compilation site: an organization website, a personal website, a library catalog--any place users choose to organize and promote information.