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。该项目将开始为研究伙伴关系建立一个试验平台，以设计和测试网络学习系统，用于智能和互联的学习社区。 进行这种类型的研究需要教育工作者、研究人员、技术人员和青年之间的伙伴关系，以及城市内各组织之间的持久关系。德保罗的数字青年网络设计了学习系统，旨在确保所有青年，特别是服务不足的青年，培养必要的关键技能，识字率和机构，以创造参与，赋权和成功的生活。在芝加哥测试自己的学习技术举措的成功经验的基础上，该项目将帮助DYN作为其他研究人员的试验平台，致力于在大城市规模上使用技术进行学习的模型。这将使更多的研究人员能够更有效地建立和研究创新的方法来部署技术，使不同的学习者能够在这种规模上获得能力。该项目将探索建立框架和协议，以减少建立研究伙伴关系的摩擦，以支持建立生态系统，支持技术，学习框架，活动结构，课程和人力资本的流体整合，支持跨空间、地点和时间的学习。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，对国家科学基金会资助的三个现有项目进行测试和试点，并根据这些经验完善试验平台伙伴关系模式;（2）开展个案研究，阐明实践中的问题（从不同利益攸关方的角度）围绕在社区学习中心内创建和实施城市规模的试验平台;（3）制定协议，以便与中心伙伴有区别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）举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各种利益攸关方聚集在一起，开发一个可测试的模型，用于开发和实施研究仪器化的创新中心，旨在支持对资源不足社区的仍在开发中的NSF干预措施进行测试。

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.