Workshop: Transitioning Research-Developed Learning Technologies into Broad Use Phases, Challenges, and Needed Infrastructure

我们提议举办一次为期一天的研讨会，旨在为将研究开发的学习技术广泛应用所需的基础设施的跨机构分析提供种子。虽然美国国家科学基金会和教育部都有技术转移计划，但我们认为，将学习技术推广到广泛应用的挑战远远超出了通用技术转移组织的设计目标。研讨会将于2010年12月14日在华盛顿特区举行。它将把那些成功地将其研究开发的学习技术广泛应用于市场的个人与以下组织的代表聚集在一起：这些组织已将其中一些技术推向市场，帮助研究人员开发具有规模的学习技术，为将技术从研究转化为使用提供基础设施，以及资助学习技术的设计和开发以及利用技术进行学习的研究的组织(国家科学基金会(NSF)、美国教育部(ED)和教育科学研究所(IES))。我们这次研讨会的目标如下：(1)确定将研究开发的技术广泛应用的途径，(2)确定这些途径中的每一个阶段，并为每个阶段确定成功完成它所面临的挑战；(3)确定可用于解决这些挑战的基础设施；(4)确定基础设施中的差距；以及(5)为NSF、IES和AND的广泛项目官员提供机会，共同考虑这一组重要问题。研讨会的最终成果将是一份文件，其中确定了将学习技术转化为广泛使用的途径、每条途径上的阶段以及每个阶段成功的挑战、启用过程和缓解挑战的可用基础设施，以及缺失的基础设施。我们希望这些清单将使适当的社区能够继续讨论并规划所需的基础设施。智力优势：研讨会将以那些致力于将学习技术广泛应用的人的经验和研究为基础，并确定挑战和一些解决这些挑战的方法。广泛目标：一个能够帮助研究人员将有价值的学习技术转化为广泛使用的基础设施，将为整个国家-S学龄人口和其他人-提供丰富而有效的学习体验。

We propose a 1-day workshop designed to seed a cross-agency analysis of the infrastructure that is needed to bring research-developed learning technologies to broad use. While technology transfer programs exist within NSF and the Department of Education, we believe the challenges of bringing learning technologies to broad use go beyond what general-purpose technology transfer organizations are designed to provide.The workshop will be held on December 14, 2010, in Washington, DC. It will bring together individuals who have successfully taken their research-developed learning technologies to broad use with representatives of organizations that have brought some of those technologies to market, that help researchers develop learning technologies with scale-up in mind, that provide infrastructure for transitioning technologies from research to use, and organizations that fund design and development of learning technologies and research on learning with technology (the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Education (ED), and the Institute for Education Science (IES)).Our objectives for this workshop are as follows: (1) Identify pathways for taking research-developed technology to broad use, (2) Identify phases in each of those pathways, and for each phase, identify thechallenges to successfully completing it, (3) Identify infrastructure that is available for addressing those challenges, (4) Identify gaps in that infrastructure, and (5) Provide an opportunity for a broad range of program officers at NSF, IES, andED to come together to consider this set of important issues.The end product of the workshop will be a document that identifies pathways for transitioning learning technologies to broad use, phases along each pathway and the challenges to success at each phase, available infrastructure for enabling the processes and mitigating the challenges, and infrastructure that is missing. Our hope is that these lists will enable and empower appropriate communities to continue the discussion and plan toward the needed infrastructure.Intellectual Merit: The workshop will build on the experiences and research of those who have worked towards bringing learning technologies to broad use and identify challenges and some of the ways of addressing those.Broader Objectives: An infrastructure that can help researchers transition worthy learning technologies to broad use will enable rich and effective learning experiences for the entirety of the country?s school-age population and beyond.