HSD: Research Community Development: Distributed Learning and Collaboration (DLAC) for Next Generation Educational Settings

该项目旨在为下一代教育环境开展分布式学习和协作领域的研究社区发展。该项目是2006年6月由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）牵头资助、上海交通大学（SJTU）主办的国际分布式学习与协作研讨会（DLAC，详见http://dlac-research.net）的后续项目。这个新项目跨越了人工智能、认知神经科学、基于网络的通信系统、在线学习、教学代理系统、科学、数学和工程教育改革以及国际教育发展等领域。研究人员认为，如果这些学习环境要让学习者沉浸在充满挑战和变化的科学、数学或工程形式中，使新形式的有意义的合作成为日常体验节奏的一部分，并使教师能够承担新的、更有意义的任务，那么未来的高性能学习环境将需要深刻的整合步骤。在对这些新的学习环境至关重要的领域中，一些最重要的进展是美国国家科学基金会和其他机构战略投资的结果，但许多最重要或最成功的先行者是其他国家的研究人员。他们拥有实验方法、数据、发现以及分析和解决问题的方法，这些对美国调查人员的工作至关重要。该项目的目标是建立一个综合的、富有成效的国际研究社区，使参与者熟悉彼此的语言、传统、方法和前沿。该项目将通过多种机制实施。一个正式的研究研讨会“placc - ii”将在德国图宾根的知识媒体研究中心（KMRC）举行。KMRC将共同资助本次研讨会。在第二届国际法会议之前和之后将举行一系列有国际参与者参加的基于网络的研究研讨会。该项目还将为早期职业研究者之间的一系列国际合作提供种子支持。

This project seeks to carry out research community development in the area of distributed learning and collaboration for next-generation educational settings. The project is a follow-up to the international Distributed Learning and Collaboration Symposium (DLAC, reported at http://dlac-research.net) lead-funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in June 2006. This new project cuts across domains like artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, net-based communication systems, online learning, pedagogical agent systems, science, mathematics and engineering education reform, and international education development. The investigators contend that high-performance learning environments of the future will require profound steps of integration if those learning environments are to immersively and fully engage learners in the challenging and changing forms of science, mathematics, or engineering, to enable new forms of meaningful collaboration become part of the rhythm of daily experience, and to enable teachers to undertake new and more meaningful tasks.Some of the most important advances in fields critical to these new learning environments have come as a result of strategic investments by NSF and others in the U.S.A., but many of the most important or successful pacesetters are researchers in other nations. They possess experimental approaches, data, discoveries and ways of analyzing and resolving problems that are crucial to the work of U.S. investigators. This project's goal is to build an integrative and productive international research community whose participants are at home with the language, traditions, approaches, and frontiers of each other. The project will be carried out through multiple mechanisms. A formal research symposium, "DLAC-II" will take place at the Knowledge Media Research Centre (KMRC) in Tuebingen, Germany. KMRC will co-fund this symposium. A series of web-based research seminars with participants internationally will take place before and after the DLAC-II. The project will also provide seed support for a series of international collaborations among early career investigators.