Incubating Infrastructure to Improve STEM Learning by Leveraging Data from Digital Educational Games

利用数字教育游戏的数据孵化基础设施以改善 STEM 学习

• 批准号: 2243668
• 负责人: David Gagnon
• 金额: $ 49.91万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2243668&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Incubating; Infrastructure; Improve; STEM; Learning

Digital educational games provide a unique opportunity to study STEM learning in context. However, infrastructure is needed to systematically collect, store, and process data from digital educational games so that it can be leveraged by STEM researchers. This Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Incubator is developing a data and distribution infrastructure that will enable researchers to study how STEM learning occurs in these contexts and how digital interventions can be designed to serve different audiences and address different learning goals. The Incubator activities will include asynchronous discussion/surveys, in-person workshop events, and report-writing workgroups geared toward planning of the infrastructure. Six focal research areas will guide the planning: (1) using digital educational games as instruments for developing and refining learning and cognitive science; (2) understanding how these games support STEM learning; (3) developing and evaluating digital assessments; (4) understanding how these games are and can be leveraged in classrooms; (5) developing practices, tools, and methods to support educational data mining; and (6) understanding the affordances of educational game-based learning for diverse audiences. By addressing the most significant gaps in the conduct of STEM educational research with digital educational games, this project will allow for entirely new forms of research to be conducted and provide mechanisms for new researchers to participate. This project is supported through a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and the Walton Family Foundation. Funding is also provided by the Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning (RETTL) program at NSF.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.

数字教育游戏提供了一个独特的机会来研究背景下的STEM学习。然而，需要基础设施来系统地收集、存储和处理来自数字教育游戏的数据，以便STEM研究人员可以利用这些数据。这个中型研究基础设施孵化器正在开发一个数据和分发基础设施，使研究人员能够研究STEM学习如何在这些背景下发生，以及如何设计数字干预措施来服务于不同的受众并解决不同的学习目标。 孵化器活动将包括异步讨论/调查、面对面研讨会活动以及面向基础设施规划的报告编写工作组。六个重点研究领域将指导规划：（1）使用数字教育游戏作为开发和完善学习和认知科学的工具;（2）了解这些游戏如何支持STEM学习;（3）开发和评估数字评估;（4）了解这些游戏如何在课堂上发挥作用;（5）开发支持教育数据挖掘的实践，工具和方法。（6）了解教育游戏学习对不同受众的启示。通过利用数字教育游戏解决STEM教育研究中最重要的差距，该项目将允许进行全新形式的研究，并为新研究人员提供参与机制。这个项目是通过与比尔梅林达盖茨基金会，施密特期货，沃尔顿家族基金会的合作伙伴关系支持。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。