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

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将建立一个首次发布的基于web的内容创作和交付系统，该系统支持多种教学实践方法，并提供有效、易于使用的方法，课程设计者可以利用系统功能。具体来说，这个项目将继续第一阶段开始的工作，并证明是可行的，即创建在线创作和补充课程管理系统，这些系统具有创新教学设计师可以立即使用的功能和好处。其目标是通过生产新内容的具有成本效益的手段，使以技术为媒介的教学得以发展，并在不损害技术能力的情况下，重点支持教学设计创新。目标是一项创新，使内容提供者能够使用有原则的学习理论和教学实践来创建新的在线课程，以支持技术为媒介的教学。该项目将产生一种新型的创作和交付系统，其中的功能可用于创建课程结构；管理多媒体内容开发；将课程规范转化为可靠的产品交付；并为学习者和他们的老师或导师访问与课程相关的活动，包括动态学习互动和实时行为跟踪和报告，反映了作者首选的学习理论和教学法。该项目旨在提供一套启用工具，通过具有成本效益的生产内容的方式来支持技术中介教学的发展，重点是在不损害技术能力的情况下支持教学设计创新。研究结果的商业应用是将创建的系统（包括有内容和没有内容）销售和许可给内容开发商、出版商、初中和高中、地区和其他地方实体，供希望为实践社区创建和发布内容和评估的个人和团体使用，并且受到成本和时间限制。由此产生的系统将解决教育方面的一个主要问题：将内容的发展和传播合并到少数出版集团手中，合并后的结果是选择缺乏质量和多样性。有了一个可扩展的创作系统，该公司就可以利用一个既支持新业务开发又支持出版商和电子学习提供商遗留资产的商业模式，开拓一个巨大的市场，并为许多其他类型的内容提供商创造重要的新机会。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will build a first-release Web-based system for content authoring and delivery that supports multiple approaches to pedagogical practice and provides efficient, easy to use methodologies with which course designers can employ system capabilities. Specifically, this project will continue the work started and demonstrated to be feasible in Phase I to create online authoring and complementary course management systems, which have features and benefits that are immediately available to innovative instructional designers. The goal is to enable the development of technology-mediated instruction through cost-effective means for producing new content and to do so with a focus on supporting instructional design innovation without compromising the capabilities of the technology. The goal is an innovation that will empower content providers to use principled learning theories and pedagogical practices for creating new online curricula that support technology-mediated instruction. The project will produce a new type of authoring and delivery system in which the functionality available to create course structure; manage multimedia content development; translate course specification into reliable production delivery; and access course-related activities for learners and their teachers or mentors, including dynamic learning interactions and real-time behavior tracking and reporting reflects the authors' preferred learning theories and pedagogies.This project seeks to provide a set of enabling tools that support the development of technology-mediated instruction through cost-effective means for producing content, focused on supporting instructional design innovation without compromising the capabilities of the technology. The commercial applications of the research result are sales and licenses of the created systems, both with and without content, to content developers, publishers, and also middle and high schools, districts, and other local entities for use by individuals and groups who desire to create and to publish content and assessments for communities of practice and who are impeded by cost and time constraints. The resulting systems will address a major problem in education: the consolidation of content development and dissemination in the hands of a small number of publishing conglomerates and the consequent lack of quality and diversity of choice that have been a result of that consolidation. With an extensible authoring system, the company would be positioned to tap into a large market with a business model that supports both new business development and the legacy assets of publishers and eLearning providers, and to create major new opportunities for many other types of content providers.