Workshop on Effective Practices to Support Open Educational Documents, Technologies, and Research

该项目旨在通过召开一次旨在支持开发和维护开放源码教育文件和技术的会议，为国家利益服务。开源材料不仅向任何潜在用户免费提供，而且还可以进行修改，以适应新用户的需求。即使创建者共享开源内容，新用户也可能遇到与材料托管技术、文档不清楚或不完整或其他因素相关的意外挑战。该项目将汇集24名专业人士参加一次混合会议，重点是有效开发和分享开放材料和通过STEM教育、研究和开发努力创造的成果。在三天的时间里，内容创作者和技术专家将接受关于开源平台的培训，讨论管理用户社区的有效实践，并探索创作开源产品的技术。STEM教育研究人员将参加这些讨论，并将探索如何最好地利用数字教科书等开放教育资源进行学习实验和其他研究。对于从事支持STEM教育研究的新型开放教育技术开发的学者来说，专业发展机会相对较少。这个项目直接满足了这种需求。这次会议将有三组参与者参加：文档作者、技术开发人员和研究人员。每个小组的成员将共同解决问题和挑战，并将为参与者小组之间提供充分的讨论机会，以加强正在进行的项目和为未来的合作提供种子。参与者将通过专业协会、会议和现有的开源生态系统招募，重点是确定代表不同经验和专业知识的广泛参与者。NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。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。

This project aims to serve the national interest by convening a conference aimed at supporting the development and maintenance of open-source educational documents and technologies. Open-source materials are not only made freely available to any potential user, but can also be modified to fit new users' needs. Even when creators share open-source content, new users can encounter unintended challenges associated with hosting technologies for materials, unclear or incomplete documentation, or other factors. This project will bring together 24 professionals for a hybrid conference centered on the effective development and sharing of open materials and outcomes created through STEM education research and development efforts. Over three days, content creators and technology experts will undergo training on open source platforms, discuss effective practices for managing user communities, and explore technologies for authoring open source products. STEM education researchers will participate in those discussions and will also explore how to best conduct learning experiments and other studies using open educational resources, such as digital textbooks. Professional development opportunities are relatively rare for scholars engaged in the development of novel open educational technologies that support STEM education research. This project speaks directly to that need. The conference will be designed to engage three groups of participants: document authors, technology developers, and researchers. Members of each group will work together on questions and challenges, and ample opportunities for discussion between participant groups will be provided to strengthen ongoing projects and seed future collaborations. Participants will be recruited through professional societies, conferences, and existing open-source ecosystems with an emphasis on identifying a breadth of attendees representing diverse experiences and expertise. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students.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.