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

支持开放教育文档、技术和研究的有效实践研讨会

• 批准号: 2333297
• 负责人: Steven Clontz
• 金额: $ 4.98万
• 依托单位: University of South Alabama
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2333297&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Effective; Practices; Support; Open

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.

该项目旨在通过召集旨在支持开源教育文件和技术的开发和维护的会议来为国家利益提供服务。开源材料不仅可以免费提供给任何潜在用户，而且可以修改以满足新用户的需求。即使创作者共享开源内容，新用户也会遇到与托管材料，不清楚或不完整文档或其他因素相关的意外挑战。 该项目将汇集24个专业人员，以进行混合会议，该会议的有效开发和共享通过STEM教育研究和开发工作创造的开放材料和成果。在三天的时间里，内容创建者和技术专家将在开源平台上接受培训，讨论管理用户社区的有效实践，并探索为创建开源产品的技术。 STEM教育研究人员将参加这些讨论，还将探索如何使用开放的教育资源（例如数字教科书）最好地进行学习实验和其他研究。 专业发展机会对于从事支持STEM教育研究的新型开放教育技术的学者相对较少。该项目直接说明了需求。会议将旨在与三组参与者互动：文件作者，技术开发人员和研究人员。每个小组的成员将在问题和挑战上共同努力，并将为参与者小组之间的讨论机会提供足够的机会，以加强正在进行的项目和种子的未来合作。参与者将通过专业社会，会议和现有的开源生态系统招募，重点是确定代表各种经验和专业知识的参与者。 NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来获得支持的。