Strengthening Impact, Supporting Collaboration, and Sustaining Access in the ATE Community

由于高级技术教育(ATE)计划社区对集中资源门户的需求而诞生，ATE中心最初是由一组ATE中心和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的互联网童子军研究小组合作发展而来的。ATE Central提供了一个可浏览和可搜索的门户网站，以及一套支持受赠人工作的工具和服务，以及一个数字档案，以保存和维持NSF在ATE上的宝贵投资。ATE中心将继续支持已经在进行的成功努力，包括存档服务、资源收集和PI会议应用程序，但也将以新的和创新的解决方案来回应，以满足不断发展的ATE社区需求。ATE中心将支持社区响应工具、服务和解决方案。社区建设技术将有助于通过聊天服务和每月在线“办公时间”将受赠者聚集在一起，以帮助支持受赠者之间的合作和沟通。一年一度的Spotlight Focus研讨会和网络研讨会将提供ATE内外关于受赠者指出的对其工作至关重要的主题的专业知识。新的课程传播服务将开发和部署文件和机制，以帮助ATE项目和中心确保他们开发的内容是学习管理系统(LMS)友好的，并向当地LMS内的教职员工提供访问这些ATE编写的材料和课程的机会。这些工具和服务以及许多其他工具和服务将创造新的方法来支持受赠人的工作，并利用各种途径传播社区的成果和成果。ATE中心将继续扩大ATE受赠人工作的影响，展示数据和交付成果，传播有关项目和中心及其开发和收集的资源的元数据。ATE计划和ATE中心的共同工作影响了包括学生、教师、行业合作伙伴和评估人员在内的不同利益攸关方。通过利用从会议到社交媒体再到网络研讨会的各种途径，以及对通用设计的坚定承诺，该项目将确保能够接触到所有利益相关者，包括那些残疾人士。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Born out of a need recognized by the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program community for a centralized resource portal, ATE Central initially grew out of a collaboration between a group of ATE centers and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Internet Scout Research Group. ATE Central provides a browseable and searchable portal and a suite of tools and services that support grantee work, along with a digital archive that preserves and sustains NSF's valuable investment in ATE. ATE Central will continue to support the successful efforts already under way, including the archiving service, resource collection, and PI meeting app, but will also respond with new and innovative solutions to meet evolving ATE community needs. ATE Central will support community-responsive tools, services, and solutions. Community-building technology will help bring grantees together with a chat service and monthly online "office hours" to help support collaboration and communication amongst grantees. Annual Spotlight Focus workshops and webinars will provide expertise from within and beyond ATE on topics indicated by grantees as critical to their work. The new Curriculum Dissemination Service will develop and deploy documentation and mechanisms to help ATE projects and centers ensure the content they develop is Learning Management System (LMS)-friendly, and to provide access to those ATE-authored materials and curriculum to faculty within their local LMS. These and a host of other tools and services will create neoteric approaches to supporting grantee work and take advantage of diverse pathways for disseminating the deliverables and results of the community. ATE Central will continue to broaden the impact of the work of ATE grantees by showcasing data and deliverables, and disseminating metadata about the projects and centers and the resources they develop and collect. The collective work of the ATE program and ATE Central impacts a diverse set of stakeholders including students, faculty, industry partners and evaluators. By utilizing a variety of pathways, from conferences to social media to webinars, and with a deep commitment to Universal Design, the project will ensure access to all stakeholders, including those with disabilities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.