DIP: Digital Studios for Social Innovation Networks

网络学习和未来学习技术计划资助的工作将有助于设想下一代学习技术，并推进我们对人们如何在技术丰富的环境中学习的了解。开发和实施（DIP）项目建立在概念验证工作的基础上，展示了所提议的新型学习技术的可能性，项目团队建立并完善了他们所提议的创新的最小可行示例，使他们能够理解未来应该如何设计和使用此类技术，并允许他们回答有关人们如何学习，如何促进或评估学习，以及/或如何为学习设计的问题。一个重要的学习问题是帮助人们学习如何创新和应用多学科方法来解决复杂的现实问题。该提案研究了如何使用虚拟设计工作室来支持人们学习如何成为未来的公民创新者的网络。从设计和复杂问题解决活动中支持学习，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以掌握协作和沟通技巧并开始学习创新的战略和战术提供支持。该提案研究了技术如何帮助人们学习创新的几种策略：设定共同目标，制定解决问题的策略，制定行动计划，获得对他们想法的帮助或反馈，以及发展领导技能。该项目将与两个全国性的公民创新网络合作：一个是“为美国设计”组织，研究人员此前曾与该组织合作，该组织应用工程方法解决公民问题。第二个是罗斯福研究所校园网络（Roosevelt Institute Campus Network），致力于解决公民问题的政策创新。这个项目的智力价值来自于Loft数字工作室学习平台的迭代改进，以及基于设计的研究，研究了与脚手架网络创新社区相关的六个设计命题。该研究将使用参与者观察、访谈和文件分析来检查这些工具是如何构建学习过程的，以及对一部分学习者及其设计技能的前后评估。这项工作计划在宏观层面（2-3个月的周期）和微观层面（1-2周的周期）使用一套嵌入式调查周期来响应两个试点受众（DFA和RICN）对Loft的实施情况，包括对这两个组织在芝加哥地区的四个章节使用该平台的深入分析。这项工作的更广泛的影响在于描述了如何支持网络创新社区，并提供了这些社区可以使用的工具（该项目开发的所有软件都是在开源许可下发布的）。

The Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies Program funds efforts that will help envision the next generation of learning technologies and advance what we know about how people learn in technology-rich environments. Development and Implementation (DIP) Projects build on proof-of-concept work that showed the possibilities of the proposed new type of learning technology, and project teams build and refine a minimally-viable example of their proposed innovation that allows them to understand how such technology should be designed and used in the future and that allows them to answer questions about how people learn, how to foster or assess learning, and/or how to design for learning. One important learning problem is helping people learn how to innovate and apply multidisciplinary approaches to complex, real-world problems. This proposal studies how virtual design studios can be used to support networks of people learning how to become the civic innovators of the future. 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. This proposal is studying several strategies for how technology can help people learn to innovate: in setting common goals, developing problem solving strategies, developing action plans, getting help or feedback on their ideas, and developing leadership skills. The project will work with two national networks of civic innovators: one, the Design For America organization, which the researchers have previously collaborated with, applies engineering methods to solve civic problems. The second, the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, works on policy innovations to civic problems. The intellectual merit of this project comes from iterative refinement of the Loft digital studio learning platform, and design-based research examining six design propositions related to scaffolding networked innovation communities. The research will use participant observation, interviews, and document analysis to examine how the tools are scaffolding learning processes, and pre-post assessment of a subset of learners and their design skills. The work plans to use a set of embedded cycles of investigation at a macro-level of 2-3 month cycles and a micro-level of 1-2 week cycles in responding to the implementation of the Loft in the two pilot audiences, DFA and RICN, including intensive analysis of use of the platform in four Chicago area chapters of these two organizations. The broader impacts of the work are in characterizing how networked innovation communities can be supported, and in providing tools that such communities could use (all software being developed by the project is being released under an open-source license.)