SBIR Phase II: Developing a web-based authoring framework for animated interactive university STEM web content via curated crowdsourcing

SBIR第二期项目开发了一种新的基于网络的出版模式，为大学水平的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域创建交互式学习内容。交互式内容，包括动画、交互式问题集和在线工具，以及一些文本，可能取代或增强传统教科书，研究表明，在学生参与度和学习成果方面有显著改善。该项目解决了STEM学生在全国范围内的高辍学率，部分原因是过时的学习材料。这样的辍学率不仅阻碍了学生实现他们的职业目标，而且导致了对国家至关重要的STEM领域的大学毕业生短缺。该项目创建了新颖的基于网络的工具，使教师甚至学生能够直接贡献新的互动内容，从而挖掘成千上万人的潜在才能和能量。该项目创建了自动化和人工监督的流程，有效地将最高质量的贡献渗透到列表的顶部，使内容能够以大规模和低成本的方式创建和维护。该项目的新出版模式可能会颠覆现有的出版行业。互动的优质内容可以增加在STEM领域成功毕业的学生数量，这可以加强国家的经济和竞争力。该项目开发了一个新的基于web的内容创作和交付框架，支持一种新颖的策划众包出版范式。该框架将基于web的协作创作与基于web的动画交互式内容的交付紧密集成在一起。该项目为教师，甚至学生开发了优雅的工具，以贡献新的交互式项目。这些工具包括一种新颖的基于浏览器的动画创建工具，它允许通过任何web浏览器轻松快速地创建强大的动画，而不需要安装应用程序或需要广泛的工具培训。该项目创建并测试新的过程，通过同行评估、使用数据和评估的组合，自动将高质量的贡献渗透到顶部，以便由讲师、作者或编辑进行最终管理。这种渗透式众包可以在规模和成本效益上产生优质的学习材料，同时比传统教科书的价格低得多。

This SBIR Phase II project develops a new web-based publishing paradigm that creates interactive learning content for university-level science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. The interactive content, featuring animations, interactive question sets, and online tools, along with some text, may replace or enhance traditional textbooks, with studies showing significant improvements in student engagement and learning outcomes. The project addresses the nationwide high dropout rates of STEM students, due in part to outmoded learning materials. Such dropout rates not only prevent students from achieving their career goals, but result in a shortage of college graduates in nationally-critical STEM fields. The project creates novel web-based tools that empower teachers, and even students, to straightforwardly contribute new interactive content, thus tapping the latent talent and energy of many thousands of people. The project creates automated and human-overseen processes that efficiently and effectively percolate the highest-quality contributions to the top of lists, enabling content to be created and maintained at large scale and low cost. The project's new publishing paradigm can disrupt the existing publishing industry. The interactive quality content can increase the number of students who successfully graduate in STEM fields, which can strengthen the nation's economy and competitiveness. The project develops a new web-based content authoring and delivery framework that supports a novel curated-crowdsourced publishing paradigm. The framework tightly integrates collaborative web-based authoring with delivery of animated interactive web-based content. The project develops elegant tools for instructors, and even students, to contribute new interactive items. Such tools include a novel browser-based animation creation tool, which allows powerful animations to be easily and quickly created via any web browser without requiring application installation or requiring extensive tool training. The project creates and tests new processes that, via a combination of peer evaluations, usage data, and assessments, automatically percolate quality contributions to the top, for final curation by instructors, authors, or editors. Such percolation crowdsourcing can yield superior learning materials, at scale and cost-effectively, while simultaneously yielding substantially lower prices than traditional textbooks.