SBIR Phase I: A Massive Open Online Authoring Platform for Language Learning Content

SBIR第一阶段项目将决定如何开发一个系统，以智能、个性化的解决方案直接将定制内容从教师提供给学生，从而取代第二语言教科书。该系统将解决学生参与度低、材料成本高、个性化学习需求以及移动设备上缺乏可用内容所带来的挑战。它将是第一个将开放教育资源(OER)大规模应用于第二语言习得的平台。这为观察OER的采用提供了机会，并了解了覆盖与作者合作、分叉和合并项目以及保持质量的编辑系统的动态。该系统可以将该领域从一个由自上而下的出版过程驱动的封闭系统转变为一个更能响应教育工作者和学生不断变化的需求的开放系统。这将降低材料成本，增加内容的可用性(特别是关键语言的内容)，并使材料能够针对每个课程模式、班级和个别学生进行定制，从而提高学习效率。教育工作者还将能够在大型课程开发项目上进行合作，并将其分享给教育界。其他领域，包括数学、科学和社会研究，如果被证明可行，可能能够使用类似的系统。SBIR第一阶段项目将为第二语言学习内容建立一个基于云的平台，旨在颠覆目前的出版模式，并改变教师的教学方式和学生的学习方式。它将使语言教育工作者社区能够将内容贡献给一个共享的储存库，所有人都可以使用软件开发中广泛使用的克隆-分叉-合并方法在自己的课程、单元和课程中重复使用、修改或重新混合。它还使快速部署到包括移动设备在内的多平台学习环境以及与教育信息系统集成成为可能。正如开源软件所证明的那样，大规模协作释放的创造力可以比自上而下的出版更快地提高内容可用性--而且成本更低，灵活性和定制化程度更高。第一阶段的研究目标是衡量学生和教师的参与度、影响力和商业可行性。研究人员将在4个月的时间里间接观察1000名测试版用户的匿名行为，测量非个人数据，并征求参与调查的教育工作者的子组的调查回应。通过分析受影响最小的总体公共行为，研究人员旨在模拟一个强大的开放教育社区的动态。

This SBIR Phase I project will determine how a system can be developed that replaces second-language textbooks with an intelligent, personalized solution that delivers custom content directly from teacher to student. This system would address challenges posed by low student engagement, high material costs, a need for personalized learning, and a lack of content availability on mobile devices. It will be the first platform to apply open educational resources (OER) to second-language acquisition at scale. This affords an opportunity to observe OER adoption and to understand the dynamics of mulch-author collaboration, forking and merging projects, and editorial systems for maintaining quality. The system could transform the field from a closed system driven by top-down publishing processes into an open system that is more responsive to the evolving needs of educators and students. This will reduce material costs, increase content availability (particularly in critical languages), and enable customization of materials to each program model, class and individual student, thus improving learning efficacy. Educators will also be able to collaborate on large-scale course development projects and share back to the education community. Other fields, including math, science and social studies may be able to utilize a similar system, if proven feasible. This SBIR Phase I project will result in a cloud-based platform for second-language learning content that aims to disrupt the current publishing model and produce a transformation in how teachers teach and how students learn. It will empower the community of language educators to contribute content to a shared repository that all may reuse, revise or remix in their own lessons, units and courses using the clone-fork-merge methodology widely used in software development. It further enables rapid deployment to mufti-platform learning environments, including mobile devices, and integration with education information systems. As proven by open-source software, the creativity unleashed by massive-scale collaboration can increase content availability at a faster pace than top-down publishing can -- and at a lower cost and with a far greater degree of flexibility and customization. The Phase I research goals are to measure student and teacher engagement, impact and commercial viability. Researchers will indirectly observe 1,000 beta users' anonymous behavior over 4 months and measure non-personal data, as well as solicit survey responses from a sub-group of participating educators. By analyzing aggregate public behaviors that are minimally influenced, researchers aim to simulate the dynamics of a robust open education community.