STTR Phase I: Team-Based Learning and Collaboration with Video Documents

该项目将解决关键的研究和开发问题，以推动一个创新的软件平台的商业化，以便对视频材料进行详细和准确的小组讨论。围绕视频的沟通是一个主要问题，因为社交和内容渠道是断开的。协作目前通过电子邮件或共享文本文档进行，这些文档与正在讨论的视频中的相关片段分开。这种脱节阻碍了深入的沟通，并导致错误。该项目的重点是将视频内容和协作讨论集成在同一页面上，并具有多个注释功能，以便讨论和协作可以像共享文本文档一样详细和高效。视频在教育竞技场和其他领域的重要性日益增加和扩散，战略性地将该项目置于科学发现的前沿，以建立一个服务于社会的技术工具。在教育领域之外，该项目将影响个人或团体使用视频作为培训、分析或评估一部分的工作场所，如公司/制造业、法律的/刑事司法、医疗等。该项目拥有一项专利，是一所大学的衍生产品。它具有无限的国内和国际商业化潜力，从而产生税收和创造就业机会。 该项目的重点是开发一个商业化的视频协作平台，用于基于团队的学习和协作，以轻量级团队模型的视频文档为中心，用于小组学习。该项目将开发用于学习者团队管理的支持工具、团队间协作机制、选择性的跨团队注释传播以及基于团队的分析，包括用于视频参与监控的讲师仪表板指标。该项目的目标是解决工具中确定的知识差距，以支持以视频为中心的协作，目标是STEM高等教育的翻转课堂模式。在这种情况下，必须理解和支持自动化组创建的最佳实践机制，大型班级的双向话语扩散以及视频内容的参与和有效性的测量。该项目的分项目小组将负责拟定和测试拟议研究里程碑的技术可行性。对于每个研究里程碑，该团队将分析来自大学原型部署和其他beta测试人员的数据。形成性评价将通过分析日志文件、非正式访谈和与beta测试人员的焦点小组进行。根据反馈，在最终部署到生产系统之前，将在测试服务器上创建和测试编码的原型。

This project will address key research and development issues necessary to advance the commercialization of an innovative software platform for detailed and accurate group discussion of video material. Communication around video is a major problem, because the social and content channels are disconnected. Collaboration currently happens through email or shared text documents that are separated from the relevant segments in the video being discussed. This disconnect hampers in-depth communication and leads to errors. This project's focus is to integrate video content and collaborative discussion on the same page with multiple annotation features so that discussion and collaboration can be as detailed and efficient as with a shared text document. The increasing importance and proliferation of video in the educational arena and other domains strategically places this project at the vanguard of scientific discovery in building a technology tool that will serve society. Outside the field of education, this project will impact workplaces where videos are used by individuals or groups as part of training, analysis or assessment such as corporate/manufacturing, legal/criminal justice, medical and others. The project holds a patent and is situated as a spin-out from a university. It has unlimited potential for national and international commercialization, thus generating tax revenue and creating jobs. This project focuses on the development of a commercial-ready Video Collaboratory platform for team-based learning and collaboration centered on video documents for the Lightweight Teams model for group learning. This project will develop support tools for the management of teams of learners, mechanisms for inter-team collaboration, selective cross-team propagation of annotations, and team-based analytics, including instructor dashboard metrics for video engagement monitoring. The goal of the project is to address knowledge gaps identified in tools to support video-centered collaboration, targeting the flipped classroom model for STEM higher education. In this context it is essential to understand and support best practice mechanisms for automated group creation, bidirectional discourse proliferation for large class sizes and measurement of engagement and effectiveness for video content. The project's subaward team will be responsible for development and testing of technical feasibility aspects of the proposed research milestones. For each of the research milestones, the team will analyze the data from prototype deployments at the University and from other beta testers. Formative evaluation will be conducted through analysis of log files, informal interviews and focus groups with beta testers. Based on the feedback, a coded prototype will be created and tested on the test server before final deployment to the production system.