CAP: AccessCyberlearning

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。能力建设（CAP）项目提高了研究人员了解未来应该如何设计和使用这类技术的能力，并支持新的能力，使研究人员能够回答有关人们如何学习、如何促进或评估学习和/或如何为学习而设计的问题。设计和研究基于技术的学习环境面临的一个挑战是，如何将技术如何支持（或阻碍）残障人士的最新知识结合起来。该项目将通过对网络学习研究人员进行面对面和在线培训，帮助网络学习社区的研究人员进行研究，考虑到对技术和残疾的了解。无障碍网络学习项目将提高当前和未来的网络学习和类似项目的能力，使其研究能够了解学生的差异/残疾；设计创新的学习技术和教学策略，让包括残障人士在内的所有人都能接受、使用和使用；确保项目资料（如项目网站、视频）和活动（培训、会议）受所有参与者欢迎、访问和使用。该项目的智力价值在于将华盛顿大学DO-IT（残疾、机会、互联网和技术）中心的专业知识与网络学习研究人员结合在一起，帮助制定该领域未来的研究议程，并向那些在该领域经验有限的研究人员介绍有关平等访问的研究文献，并设计最佳实践。这将通过与CIRCL（网络学习创新研究中心）协调的一系列面对面研究所和开发供该领域更广泛使用的基于网络的培训材料来实现。

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. Capacity-building (CAP) projects increase the ability of researchers to understand how such technology should be designed and used in the future and supports new capacity in allowing researchers to answer questions about how people learn, how to foster or assess learning, and/or how to design for learning. One challenge in designing and studying technology-based learning environments is incorporating state of the art knowledge about how technology can support (or hinder) those with disabilities. This project will help researchers in the cyberlearning community do research that takes into account what is known about technology and disability by conducting training for cyberlearning researchers both face to face and online.The AccessCyberlearning project will increase the capacity of current and future Cyberlearning and similar projects to inform their research with what is known about student differences/disabilities; to design innovative learning technologies and teaching strategies that are welcoming to, accessible to, and usable by everyone, including people with disabilities; and ensure that project materials (e.g., project websites, videos) and activities (training, meetings) are welcoming to, accessible to, and usable by all participants. The intellectual merit of the project lies in bringing together the expertise of the DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) Center at the University of Washington together with Cyberlearning researchers to help shape future research agendas in the field and to inform those researchers with limited experience in the area to the research literature on, and design best-practices for, equal access. This will take place through a set of face-to-face institutes coordinated with the CIRCL (Center for Innovative Research in CyberLearning) and through development of web-based training materials for use by the field more broadly.