Proto-OKN Theme 3: An Education Gateway for the Proto-OKN

这个原型开放知识网络（OKN）项目旨在确保以OKN为中心的学习和实践社区的发展，并利用OKN解决关键的、现实世界的问题。这个原型OKN教育门户（EduGate）的努力将提供一个全面的教育平台，也将促进当前OKN项目之间的密切合作和融合，以及未来进入网络的项目。作为原型okn环境和社区的切入点，EduGate可以产生广泛的影响，并可以直接为原型okn工作的整体成功做出贡献。虽然一些OKN项目将部署较新的技术，包括分布式账本、区块链技术和大型语言模型（llm），但许多支持OKN的底层技术和标准已经建立并存在了一段时间。有大量现存的教育材料、教程、参考文本和技术论文描述了这些技术的现状。教育门户将通过OKN课程知识图谱（CurrKG）将这些不同的材料汇集在一起并连接起来，这将是专门为教育所有背景的学习者而建立的。教育门户提供了一个统一的基础学习平台，为来自政府、行业、非营利组织和其他部门的用户和其他利益相关者提供了定制的途径。该项目包括四个主要举措：(1)社区发展、外展和参与(2)行业联系、外展和参与(3)OKN项目队列中的教育和支持活动，以及(4)OKN课程知识图谱（CurrKG）的开发，以帮助通过这些材料进行导航。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 Prototype-Open Knowledge Network (OKN) project seeks to ensuring the growth of a community of learning and practice centered on the OKN and its use in solving critical, real-world problems. This Proto-OKN Education Gateway, EduGate, effort will provide a comprehensive education platform that would also facilitate close collaborations and convergence among current OKN projects, as well as future entrants to the network.As the entry-point to the Proto-OKN environment and community, EduGate can have widespread impact and can contribute directly to the overall success of the Proto-OKN effort. While some of the OKN projects will be deploying newer technologies, including distributed ledgers, blockchain technology, and large language models (LLMs), many of the underlying technologies and standards that power OKN are well-established and have been around for some time. There is a plethora of extant educational material, tutorials, reference texts, and technical papers describing the state of the art of these technologies. The Education Gateway will bring together and link these different materials via the OKN Curriculum Knowledge Graph (CurrKG), which will be purpose-built for educating learners of all backgrounds.The Education Gateway provides a unified, foundational learning platform, with customized pathways for users and other stakeholder from various sectors including government, industry, non-profit and other sectors. The project encompasses four major initiatives: (1) Community Development, Outreach, and Engagement (2) Industry Connection, Outreach, and Engagement (3) Education and Support activities among the cohort of OKN projects, and (4) Development of an OKN Curriculum Knowledge Graph (CurrKG) to assist with navigation through these materials.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.