POSE: Phase I: Open Source Ecosystem of Inclusive Interactive Media with PhET's MVC (Physics Education Technology's Model-View-Controller) Framework

POSE：第一阶段：采用 PhET 的 MVC（物理教育技术的模型-视图-控制器）框架的包容性互动媒体开源生态系统

• 批准号: 2229613
• 负责人: Emily Moore
• 金额: $ 29.96万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2229613&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: POSE; Phase; Open; Source; Ecosystem

This project is funded by Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) which seeks to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Over the past 10 years, the PhET (Physics Education Technology) Interactive Simulations group at the University of Colorado Boulder has developed an open-source codebase, the PhET Model-View-Controller (MVC) Framework. This codebase has been used to create a suite of interactive simulations used around the world for teaching and learning science and math topics. This project will examine the potential for building an open-source ecosystem around the PhET MVC Framework. The project’s novelties include an emphasis on the technical infrastructure and design patterns supporting visual, auditory, and haptic displays with diverse input modalities including traditional mouse and touch, alternative input, and through computer vision, object tracking and naturalistic gesture. These features can support users of interactive media created from the PhET MVC Framework across a broad span of human diversity in sensory, mobility, and cognitive abilities. This project will also serve as a critical catalyst, enabling the discovery of specific user, contributor, and governance needs for growth. The project’s impacts will include an amplification of the awareness and use of accessibility features for educational media, potentially leading to greater inclusion of people with disabilities in educational contexts and beyond.In this project, investigators with expertise in open-source licensing, PhET’s codebase, and qualitative research methods will advance multiple avenues of investigation to inform the transition of the PhET MVC Framework to an open source ecosystem. These include: 1) identifying existing community characteristics, community needs, and potential growth of new communities through surveys, focus groups, and market research; 2) exploring existing and potential member processes, structure, and governance models through workshops, discussions with the board of advisors, and participation in NSF training on open source ecosystems; and 3) developing community building mechanisms across existing and new communities through surveys and focus groups; and 4) exploration of utility and feedback on exemplar documentation, onboarding materials, and structures for regional community supports.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.

该项目由开放源代码生态系统之路（POSE）资助，旨在利用开放源代码开发的力量，为国家和社会重要问题创造新的技术解决方案。在过去的10年里，科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的PhET（物理教育技术）交互式仿真小组开发了一个开源代码库，即PhET模型-视图-控制器（MVC）框架。该代码库已被用于创建一套交互式模拟，用于世界各地的科学和数学主题的教学和学习。该项目将研究围绕PhET MVC框架构建开源生态系统的潜力。该项目的新颖之处包括强调技术基础设施和设计模式，支持视觉，听觉和触觉显示，具有不同的输入方式，包括传统的鼠标和触摸，替代输入，并通过计算机视觉，对象跟踪和自然手势。这些功能可以支持从PhET MVC框架中创建的交互式媒体的用户，这些交互式媒体跨越了人类在感官，移动性和认知能力方面的广泛多样性。该项目还将作为一个关键的催化剂，能够发现特定的用户，贡献者和治理需求的增长。该项目的影响将包括扩大对教育媒体无障碍功能的认识和使用，可能导致残疾人更多地融入教育环境及其他领域。在该项目中，具有开源许可专业知识的调查人员，PhET的代码库，和定性研究方法将推进多种调查途径，为PhET MVC框架向开源生态系统的过渡提供信息。这些措施包括：1）通过调查、焦点小组和市场研究，确定现有的社区特征、社区需求和新社区的潜在增长; 2）通过研讨会、与顾问委员会的讨论以及参加NSF关于开源生态系统的培训，探索现有和潜在的成员流程、结构和治理模式;（三）透过调查及焦点小组，在现有及新成立的社区发展社区建设机制;以及4）探索范例文档、入职材料该奖项反映了NSF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。