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顺利进行。教材市场包括教材和辅助教材；然而，随着内容格式和采用周期的变化，这个市场也在发生变化，但专家们预计，它在未来几年仍将保持强劲。各种类型和规模的组织都可以从内容管理策略中受益，因为它们调整了自己的实践和基础设施，避免了匆忙组织的网页、访问受限的数据库，或者更糟的是——打印在纸上的url。每年，数以百万计的高质量数字学习资源被创造出来，但这些材料中只有一小部分被美国教师和学生发现和使用。随着将教室转变为21世纪教育空间的压力越来越大，迫切需要一种工具来改进识别和组织，以帮助互联网上的“大堆东西”成为创新和吸引人的教育体验的“大堆好东西”。提出的Web2MARC技术有可能对当前和未来的市场产生巨大影响。有了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都要花费大量资金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Common Core State Standards链接等信息进行定制，并导入到许多类型的内容管理系统中。Web2MARC是一个易于使用的工具，它允许用户快速轻松地为数字内容创建描述性记录，这些记录可以用关键字标记，使它们易于查找和使用。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编译网站：组织网站，个人网站，图书馆目录-用户选择组织和推广信息的任何地方。

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.