Teachers Domain: Pathways Stage II

WGBH教育基金会正在通过一套综合的研究、开发和传播活动，扩大教师领域途径到NSDL的范围、影响和稳定性。该项目正在扩展为K-12 STEM教育工作者（以及中学后受众）定制的丰富媒体材料的管理，这项服务于2004年通过NSDL途径奖成功启动，并得到了NSF和其他资助机构最近的额外支持。为了满足目标受众不断变化的需求，WGBH正在通过整合社交媒体工具以促进用户参与和互动，进一步提高教师领域的实用性和吸引力。Teachers' Domain也在扩大其内容和用户群，主要是通过补充资金倡议和生产合作伙伴关系，并通过提供一系列面对面和在线研讨会，以支持在K-12教室，中学后校园和全国各地的专业发展环境中积极使用Pathway。代表其他NSDL项目和工作组、公共电视台和组织的顾问为TD提供在教育中使用参与式媒体的专业知识。在对最初的“途径”倡议和其他几个教师领域项目进行研究的基础上，教育发展中心的儿童与技术中心正在进行评估，以评估目标受众的需求以及由此产生的产品和服务的影响。建立在教师领域的广泛和不断增长的影响力基础上，这项免费的在线服务拥有来自163个国家（包括美国55%的公立学校）的256，000多名注册用户。随着人们对其可用性的了解的传播，使用率迅速增长，累积访问率每六个月翻一番。传播，推广和营销活动将通过合作组织，WGBH和PBS的既定渠道以及公共电视台新兴的EDCAR倡议进行，吸引K-12教师和学生以及专业协会，促进全国各地的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育。

The WGBH Educational Foundation is expanding the reach, impact, and stability of the Teachers' Domain Pathway to the NSDL, through an integrated set of research, development, and dissemination activities. This project is extending the stewardship of rich-media materials customized for K-12 STEM educators (and post-secondary audiences as well), a service successfully initiated through a NSDL Pathways award in 2004 and supplemented by recent additional support from NSF and other funding agencies. Addressing the evolving needs of the target audience, WGBH is further enhancing the utility and appeal of Teachers' Domain (TD) by integrating social media tools to promote user engagement and interaction. Teachers' Domain is also expanding its content offerings and user base, primarily through complementary funding initiatives and production partnerships and by providing a series of in-person and online workshops to support active use of the Pathway in K-12 classrooms, post-secondary campuses, and professional development settings across the country. Advisors representing other NSDL projects and working groups, public television stations, and organizations provides TD with specialized expertise in the use of participatory media in education. Building upon research conducted on the original Pathways initiative and several additional Teachers' Domain projects, the Center for Children and Technology (CCT) at EDC is conducting ongoing evaluation to assess needs of the target audience and the impact of the resulting products and services. Building on the extensive and growing reach of Teachers' Domain, this free online service has over 256,000 registered users from more than 163 countries (including 55% of the public schools in the U.S.). Usage is growing rapidly as knowledge of its availability spreads with the rate of cumulative visits doubling every six months. Dissemination, promotion, and marketing activities will be conducted through partnering organizations, established channels of WGBH and PBS, and public television's emerging EDCAR initiative, engaging K-12 teachers and students as well as professional associations promoting enhanced science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education across the country.