ISLS 2023: Building Knowledge and Sustaining Our Community: ISLS Doctoral Consortium and Early Career Workshops

美国历来在学习科学领域处于全球领先地位，这是一个利用多种理论和方法观点的跨学科领域，目的是在各种教育环境中，经常是在新兴技术的背景下，促进关于人类学习和发展的知识。这一领域的杰出会议是国际学习科学学会(ISLS)年会。在这次会议上，介绍了最新的研究成果，从业者了解了学习科学研究的最新技术，以及计算机支持的协作学习的相关研究领域。该项目为ISLS会议提供部分差旅支持，六名来自美国的博士生通过竞争程序被选中，作为博士联盟的一部分，在他们的学位论文委员会之外展示他们的工作并接受额外的指导。该项目还为来自美国的五名早期职业研究人员提供部分旅行支持，与该领域的同行和资深研究人员讨论他们的研究计划和职业轨迹。这项工作的智力价值在于改善了研究生的论文研究，并为早期职业研究人员创造了影响和机会；在这两个方面，工作都得到了世界级导师的指导，他们以结构化的形式与学生会面，以改进他们的研究。更广泛的影响包括增加在学习科学领域开展合作的机会，支持在这一跨学科领域工作的多学科中一些最优秀和最聪明的研究人员的职业发展。通过支持来自多个学科的高质量美国学者进入这个跨学科领域，这项提议有助于确保美国在这个富有成效和至关重要的研究领域的参与和平等。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。

The United States has historically been a global leader in the field of the learning sciences, an interdisciplinary field that draws on multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives with the goal of advancing knowledge about human learning and development in a variety of educational settings, frequently in the context of emerging technologies. The preeminent conference in this field is the Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS). At this conference the latest research is presented and practitioners learn the state of the art techniques in learning science research, and the related research area of computer-supported collaborative learning. The project provides partial travel support to the ISLS Meeting for six Ph.D. students from the United States, selected through a competitive process, to present their work and receive additional mentoring outside of their dissertation committees as part of a doctoral consortium. The project also supports partial travel support for five early career researchers from the United States, to discuss their research programs and career trajectories with peers and senior researchers in the field. The intellectual merit of the work is in improving the dissertation research of the graduate students and building impact and opportunity for early career researchers; in both tracks the work is enhanced by guidance from world-class mentors who meet with the students in a structured format to improve their research. The broader impact includes multiplying opportunities to develop collaborations in the field of learning sciences, and supporting the career development of some of the best and brightest researchers in multiple disciplines who work in this interdisciplinary area. By supporting a pipeline of high-quality US scholars from multiple disciplines into this interdisciplinary field, this proposal helps ensure US participation and parity in this productive and vital area of research.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.