SBIR Phase I: Career Simulation Environment

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在创建一个内容和交付平台，以促进职业教育的互动学习-解决支持教学和/或学习子主题的应用。该项目将开发职业模拟环境（CSE）的原型-一个参与，探索和建构主义的环境，将更好地告知青年，他们长大后将提供什么样的机会。此外，它还将加强他们为迎接这些机会而应掌握的习惯、技能和价值观。据推测，学生将更积极地探索职业生涯中积极的方式和更积极地追求职业生涯，他们已经能够'taste'.职业生涯模拟必须足够复杂，以获得学生的信誉，是全面的，足以模拟职业技能，并满足课程要求，但高度可用。这个项目是唯一适合解决这个问题，结合最佳做法和研究领域的青少年职业准备，人机交互，游戏和电子学习。拟议的研究将大大扩展以前的研究和实践，通过跨学科的方法来开发和评估职业探索模拟工具的职业探索。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to create a content and delivery platform to facilitate interactive learning for career education - addressing the application in support of teaching and/or learning subtopic. The project will develop a prototype of the Career Simulation Environment (CSE) - an engaging, exploratory and constructivist environment that will better inform youth about the kind of opportunities that will be available to them when they grow up. In addition, it will reinforce the habits, skills and values that they should acquire in preparation for those opportunities. It is hypothesized that students will be more motivated to explore careers in an active manner and more motivated to pursue careers that they have been able to 'taste'.Career simulations must be complex enough to gain credibility with students, be comprehensive enough to model career skills and satisfy curriculum requirements, and yet be highly usable. This project is uniquely suited to address this problem by combining best practices and research from the fields of adolescent career preparation, human computer interaction, gaming and e-learning. The proposed research will substantially extend previous research and practice in career exploration through an interdisciplinary approach to the development of and evaluation of career explorations simulation tools.