Collaborative Research: Empowering faculty to run online learning experiments

在NSF改善本科STEM教育计划：教育和人力资源(IUSE：EHR)的支持下，该项目旨在通过创建和改进位于开放式数据驱动的教育技术平台上的开放式数学教育内容来服务于国家利益。该项目将使教师能够设计和实施在线学习实验，以测试新内容和创新教学策略的有效性。关于学生如何使用和学习这些材料的数据将帮助教师有效地利用课堂上的材料，并使作者能够发展引人入胜的教育经验，以最大限度地提高学习效果。利用这一平台，教师将能够根据快速变化的STEM领域随时修改他们的材料，并使这些材料适应学生的需求。该项目将开发分布式开放教育网络(DONET)，其核心是一种测量和共享学生与网页的互动并将匿名数据存储在开放的分布式数据仓库中的机制。Doenet平台将包括用于(A)创作互动教育内容，(B)使用内容进行教育研究，以及(C)根据研究结果发现最有效内容的工具。Doenet将减少开发和访问在线内容和学习实验的障碍。来自不同机构的教职员工和研究人员将利用Doenet开发开放式互动教育内容，并进行小规模学习实验，包括调查不同引导学生通过互动内容的方式的影响的实验。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。该项目属于该计划的参与学生学习轨道，该轨道使有前途的实践和工具得以创建、探索和实施。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。

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this project aims to serve the national interest by creating and improving open educational content in mathematics that resides on an open data-driven educational technology platform. The project will empower faculty to design and implement online learning experiments to test the effectiveness of new content and innovative teaching strategies. The data on how students use and learn from these materials will help instructors make effective use of the material in the classroom and enable authors to develop engaging educational experiences to maximize learning. Using this platform, instructors will be able to readily modify their materials in line with rapidly changing STEM fields and to adapt those materials to students' needs.The project will develop the Distributed Open Education Network (Doenet), which is, at its core, a mechanism for measuring and sharing student interactions with web pages and storing anonymized data in an open distributed data warehouse. The Doenet platform will include tools for (a) authoring interactive educational content, (b) conducting educational research using the content, and (c) discovering the most effective content based on the research results. Doenet will reduce barriers to the development and access of online content and learning experiments. Faculty and researchers from a variety of institutions will employ Doenet to develop open interactive educational content and conduct small scale learning experiments, including experiments to investigate the influence of different ways of guiding students through the interactive content. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. This project falls in the program's Engaged Student Learning track, which enables the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.