SBIR Phase I: Enabling Pedagogical Choice and Cost-Efficiency in the Development of Web-based Curricula

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将回答以下问题：是否可行，建立一个有效的方法和基于计算机的系统，内容创作和基于Web的交付，真正支持多种方法的教学实践？ 具体来说，它是可行的设计一个在线创作系统和一个互补的课堂管理系统，这两个系统的功能和好处是立即提供给创新的教学设计师？ 其目标是研究一种创新，使内容提供商能够使用有原则的学习理论和相关的教学实践来创建新的在线课程，支持以技术为媒介的教学。具体来说，该研究将产生一种新型的创作和交付系统，其中的功能-创建课程结构，管理多媒体内容开发，将课程规范转化为可靠的生产交付，为学生和他们的老师访问课程相关的活动，包括动态学习互动，和实时行为跟踪和报告--反映了作者偏爱的学习理论和方法。敏捷思维提供了一套支持技术发展的使能工具--通过具有成本效益的手段，以制作新的课程，这样做的重点是支持教学设计创新，而不损害技术的能力。 将生产的系统将解决教育中的一个主要问题，即，内容的开发和传播集中在少数出版集团手中，结果造成质量和选择多样性的缺乏。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will answer the following question: Is it feasible to build an efficient methodology and computer-based systems for content authoring and Web-based delivery that truly support multiple approaches to pedagogical practices? Specifically, is it feasible to design an online authoring system and a complementary classroom management system, where the features and benefits of both systems are immediately available to innovative instructional designers? The goal is to research an innovation that will empower content providers to use principled learning theories and associated pedagogical practices for creating new online curricula that support technology-mediated instruction. Specifically, the research will produce a new type of authoring and delivery system where the functionality available--creating course structure, managing multi-media content development, translating course specification into reliable production delivery, accessing course-related activities for students and their teachers, including dynamic learning interactions, and real-time behavior tracking and reporting--reflects the authors' preferred learning theories and pedagogies.Agile Mind proffers a set of enabling tools that support the development of technology-mediated instruction through cost-effective means for producing new curriculum, doing so with a focus on supporting instructional design innovation without compromising the capabilities of the technology. The systems to be produced will address a major problem in education, i.e., the consolidation of content development and dissemination in the hands of a small number of publishing conglomerates and the resulting consequent lack of quality and diversity of choice.