SBIR Phase I: An E-Learning Program for High School Equivalency (GED) and Remedial Education for Prisoners

SBIR 第一阶段：高中同等学历 (GED) 电子学习计划和囚犯补习教育

• 批准号: 1821213
• 负责人: Noah Freedman
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Nucleos Incorporated
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1821213&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Learning; Program; Equivalency

This SBIR Phase I project addresses the pressing need for providing incarcerated youth and adults with continual systematic and secure personal education and training opportunities, giving inmates the skills they need to productively re-enter society. It will also reduce recidivism rates, and increase their confidence and the potential for contributing to local communities. Every year, more than 700,000 state and federal prisoners are released back into their communities, often with no greater skills than when they went in. The majority of prisoners lack basic high school degrees. The goal of the project is to provide the most effective, secure and flexible offline e-Learning applications for acquiring high school equivalency, the area of greatest need, within the constraints of the prison environment; covering both instructor-led and self-directed learning sessions. At the completion of Phase I, correctional facilities will have an opportunity to utilize a secure, easy-to-administer, offline e-Learning solution for the General Education Development (GED) or for any other education and training in a digital format. A wealth of high-quality instructional programs will be incorporated into the platform that will ultimately lead to a high school equivalency diploma, and additional support to address technical and vocational skills.The Phase I project innovation is centered around the delivery of a single, highly-flexible, secure learning management platform, where multiple applications can be stored on a single server. It will provide the General Education Development (GED) content and will be expandable to incorporate additional e-Learning applications including those that can address recidivism. The adaptable learning management platform will automate the provisioning and installation of these GED and non-GED educational applications on private servers, either on-site at the correctional facility or on off-site private server networks. Different sets of content would be automatically customized for each prison, with no outside Internet connectivity required. Another key innovation will be the ability to have the e-Learning system follow the inmate as they are moved. They will always have access to their specific content and progress status as their data will be centrally-hosted on the fully secured prison servers. Their individual records can be confirmed and reviewed for parole evaluations. By providing uniform student analytics and continuous monitoring of learning outcomes with different content and educational application vendors, the system will advance the capability of offline learning to be a data-driven endeavor and will deliver a personalized experience comparable to systems in civilian life.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.

SBIR第一阶段项目解决了迫切需要为被监禁的青年和成年人提供持续、系统和安全的个人教育和培训机会，使囚犯掌握他们重新进入社会所需的技能。它还将降低累犯率，增加他们的信心和为当地社区作出贡献的潜力。每年有70多万名州和联邦囚犯被释放回他们的社区，他们通常没有比入狱时更好的技能。大多数囚犯没有基本的高中学历。该项目的目标是提供最有效、安全和灵活的离线电子学习应用程序，以便在监狱环境的限制范围内获得高中同等学历，这是最需要的领域;包括教师主导和自我指导的学习课程。在第一阶段完成时，惩教设施将有机会利用安全、易于管理的离线电子学习解决方案，用于普通教育发展或任何其他数字形式的教育和培训。该平台将整合大量高质量的教学课程，最终将为学生提供高中同等学历文凭，并为学生提供额外的技术和职业技能支持。第一阶段项目创新的核心是提供一个单一的、高度灵活的、安全的学习管理平台，在该平台上，多个应用程序可以存储在一台服务器上。它将提供普通教育发展（GED）的内容，并将可扩展到纳入其他电子学习应用程序，包括那些可以解决累犯。适应性强的学习管理平台将自动配置和安装这些GED和非GED教育应用程序的私人服务器上，无论是在现场的惩教设施或场外的私人服务器网络。将为每个监狱自动定制不同的内容，不需要外部互联网连接。另一个关键的创新将是有能力让电子学习系统跟随囚犯，因为他们被移动。他们将始终可以访问他们的具体内容和进度状态，因为他们的数据将集中托管在完全安全的监狱服务器上。他们的个人记录可以确认和审查假释评估。通过提供统一的学生分析和对不同内容和教育应用程序供应商的学习成果的持续监控，该系统将把离线学习能力提升为一个数据-该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。