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

由于先进技术教育（ATE）项目社区认识到需要一个集中的资源门户，ATE Central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侦察研究小组之间的合作发展起来的。ATE Central提供了一个可浏览和可搜索的门户，以及一套支持被授权工作的工具和服务，以及保存和维持NSF在ATE的宝贵投资的数字档案。ATE Central将继续支持已经取得成功的工作，包括存档服务、资源收集和PI会议应用程序，但也将提供新的创新解决方案，以满足ATE社区不断发展的需求。ATE Central将支持响应社区的工具、服务和解决方案。社区建设技术将通过聊天服务和每月在线“办公时间”帮助受资助者聚集在一起，以帮助支持受资助者之间的协作和交流。年度焦点研讨会和网络研讨会将提供来自ATE内外的专业知识，讨论受资助者指出的对其工作至关重要的主题。新的课程传播服务将开发和部署文件和机制，以帮助学习管理系统项目和中心确保他们开发的内容对学习管理系统（LMS）友好，并向当地LMS中的教师提供访问这些学习管理系统编写的材料和课程。这些工具和许多其他工具和服务将创造新的方法来支持受资助的工作，并利用各种途径来传播社区的成果和成果。科技创新中心将通过展示数据和可交付成果，传播有关项目和中心及其开发和收集的资源的元数据，继续扩大科技创新受助人工作的影响。ATE计划和ATE中心的集体工作影响着包括学生、教师、行业合作伙伴和评估人员在内的各种利益相关者。通过利用各种途径，从会议到社交媒体再到网络研讨会，以及对通用设计的坚定承诺，该项目将确保所有利益相关者，包括残疾人都能进入。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.