EAGER: Partnerships for Urban STEM Learning Hubs

网络学习和未来学习技术计划资助的努力将有助于展望下一代学习技术，并促进我们对人们在技术丰富的环境中如何学习的了解。该项目将开始为研究伙伴关系建立一个试验台，为智能和互联社区的学习设计和测试网络学习系统。做这种类型的研究需要教育工作者、研究人员、技术专家和年轻人之间的合作伙伴关系，以及城市内部组织之间的持久关系。德保罗的数字青年网络设计学习系统，旨在确保所有青年，特别是未得到充分服务的青年，培养必要的关键技能、识字能力和能力，以便有机会创造参与、赋权和成功的生活。在之前在芝加哥全市测试自己的学习技术倡议的成功基础上，该项目将帮助Dyn成为其他研究人员的试验台，这些研究人员正在努力利用大城市规模的技术来建立学习模型。这将使更多的研究人员能够更有效地构建和研究部署技术的创新方法，以增强该规模的不同学习者的能力。该项目将探索创建框架和协议，以减少创建研究伙伴关系时的摩擦，以支持创建支持跨空间、跨地点和跨时间学习所需的技术、学习框架、活动结构、课程和人力资本的流动集成的生态系统。为实现这一目标，该项目将开展四项活动：(1)与DYN正式和/或非正式学习伙伴一起，对现有的三个由NSF资助的项目进行试行测试和试点，并根据这些经验改进试验台伙伴关系的模式；(2)开发案例研究，阐明在社区学习中心内创建和实施城市规模的试验台的实践问题；(3)制定协议，与中心伙伴不同地分享学生学习数据，并与更大的网络学习社区汇总学习数据；以及，(4)主办一个由两部分组成的研讨会，将包括中心合作伙伴在内的不同利益攸关方群体聚集在一起，为开发和实施以研究为手段的创新中心制定一个可测试的模式，以支持对仍在发展中的NSF干预措施与资源不足的社区进行实际测试。

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. This project will begin to build a testbed for research partnerships to design and test cyberlearning systems for smart and connected communities for learning. Doing this type of research requires partnerships between educators, researchers, technologists, and youth, and enduring relationships between organizations within a city. The Digital Youth Network at DePaul designs learning systems aiming to ensure that all youth, especially the underserved, cultivate the critical skills, literacies and agency necessary to have the opportunity to create lives that are engaged, empowered and successful. Building on prior successes of testing its own learning technology initiatives across the city of Chicago, this project will help DYN serve as a testbed for other researchers working towards models of learning with technologies at the scale of a large city. This will allow many more researchers to more effectively build and study innovative ways to deploy technology to empower diverse learners at that scale.The project will explore the creation of frameworks and protocols to reduce the friction in creating research partnerships to support the creation of ecosystems that support the fluid integration of the technologies, learning frameworks, activity structures, curriculum, and human capital, necessary to support learning across space, place, and time. To achieve this goal, the project will conduct four activities: (1) Playtest and pilot three existing NSF-funded projects with DYN formal and/or informal learning partners, and refine models for testbed partnerships based on these experiences; (2) Develop case studies that shed light on the problems of practice (from diverse stakeholder perspectives) around the creation and implementation of a city-scale testbed within a community learning hub; (3) Develop protocols for differential sharing of student learning data with hub partners and aggregate learning data with the larger cyberlearning community; and, (4) Host a two-part workshop that brings together a diverse group of stakeholders, including hub partners, to develop a testable model for the development and implementation of research-instrumented innovation hubs designed to support playtesting of still-in-development NSF interventions with under-resourced communities.