POSE: Phase I: An Open-Source Ecosystem for the Creation and Use of Accessible Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Open Education Resources

该项目由开放源代码生态系统之路（POSE）项目资助，该项目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技术解决方案。科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育材料是开源的，并免费提供给学习者和教育者，被称为开放教育资源（OER），需要一个超过商业替代品质量的基础设施。该项目的范围是创建一个开源生态系统（OSE），由两个现有的开源产品组成：用于编写适用于STEM所有领域的学术文档和教科书的，以及用于发布支持K-12和高等教育教学和教育研究的OER教科书的Runestone学习工程和分析门户。通过开源生态系统对教师、作者和研究人员的支持，开源教科书可以免费提供给全国的STEM教室和学生。此外，通过消除研究人员、作者、教师和学生之间的障碍，OER有可能反映STEM教育研究的前沿进展。pretext编写的作品可以转换为HTML、打印和盲文格式，从而使广泛的学习者可以免费访问由此产生的开放教育资源，这是确保所有学生都有同等受教育机会的公平方法。范围界定活动包括策划方法，以创建多方面的、可访问的和交互式的STEM教育内容，并为学生、教师、内容作者和研究人员提供与教科书材料无缝交互的机制，以产生和利用分析。团队将在项目的前半部分与利益相关者举行虚拟会议，并在项目结束时举行面对面的峰会。该项目的评估将包括来自更大的STEM OER社区的会议参与者和专家的定性反馈，包括来自其他OER平台和聚合器的反馈。该项目旨在支持基础设施和治理结构的发展，为开放教育资源社区服务的可持续和强大的开源生态系统。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。

This project is funded by Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program which seeks to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) educational materials that are open-sourced and made freely available to learners and educators, known as Open Educational Resources (OER), require an infrastructure that exceeds the quality of commercial alternatives. This project scopes the creation of an Open-Source Ecosystem (OSE) consisting of two existing open-source products: PreTeXt for authoring scholarly documents and textbooks suitable for all areas of STEM, and the Runestone learning engineering and analytics portal for publishing OER textbooks that support both instruction and education research in K-12 and higher education. The long-term societal impacts of this OSE are open-source textbooks that are made freely available to the nation’s STEM classrooms and students through the Open-Source Ecosystem’s support of instructors, authors, and researchers. Furthermore, the OER has the potential to reflect cutting-edge advancements in STEM education research by removing the barriers between researchers, authors, instructors, and students. PreTeXt-authored works can be converted into HTML, print, and braille formats, enabling the resulting Open Educational Resources to be accessible to a wide range of learners at no cost, an equitable approach to ensuring that all students have the same access to education. The scoping activities include curating methods to create multifaceted, accessible, and interactive STEM education content, and providing mechanisms for students, instructors, content authors, and researchers to seamlessly interact with textbook materials to produce and utilize analytics. The team will hold virtual meetings of stakeholders throughout the first half of the project, culminating in an in-person summit at the end of the project. Evaluation of the project will include qualitative feedback from meeting participants and experts across the larger STEM OER community, including those from alternative OER platforms and aggregators. The project aims to support the development of an infrastructure and governance structure for a sustainable and robust Open-Source Ecosystem in service of Open Educational Resources communities.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.