SBIR Phase I: Nurturing student learning by bringing relevant academic content to the consumer

SBIR第一阶段项目旨在开发一个基于网络的系统，使学生、教育者和家长能够发现符合K-12教育资源的标准，以满足学生的优势、需求和热情。在过去的几年里，通过丰富的教育技术产品（包括移动应用程序），K-12教育资源的范围迅速扩大。尽管移动应用程序和在线教育内容与学生的参与度很高，但由于它们的非结构化性质，它们不被视为课程学习。在盖茨基金会的一项研究中，71%的高中辍学生报告说，他们在9年级和10年级时对学习缺乏兴趣，该研究建议通过现实世界的体验式学习来吸引学习者。辍学的学生无法胜任90%的工作。通过SBIR第一阶段开发的解决方案将赋予学生选择和多样化的内容，并将与学生的热情保持一致，例如，为有抱负的音乐家选择声音工程视频和/或基于音乐的数学。使用这种符合学生热情的标准的技术有望提高学生的毕业率，并为整个社区带来相关的经济增长。第一阶段的SBIR将提供一个基于网络的系统，这是同类中第一个集成和个性化的学习解决方案，可以为学生和教师策划各种类型的教育资源，并以一种适合学生兴趣的方式呈现这些资源。它将为学区和家庭提供一个可持续的、具有成本效益的解决方案，以有效利用有限的资源和预算，获得符合标准的、对学生具有高度吸引力的内容。由此产生的系统将被组织为一个消费者应用程序，它可以促进发现符合标准的教育资源，这些资源与学生的力量和速度相匹配，并在学生层面实现个性化学习。该系统将使所有学生，无论其社会经济地位如何，都能在课堂内外获得相关的教育材料。第一阶段将进行初步测试、试点研究和涉及教师和学生的分析数据收集，以研究开发的解决方案的功效。这项研究的目标是验证系统的特性、易用性，并了解第一阶段的活动是否会产生一个原型，该原型提供了解决尝试问题的技术可行性。

This SBIR Phase I project is aimed at developing a web-based system that enables students, educators and parents to discover standards aligned K-12 educational resources that meet the strengths, needs and passions of students. The universe of K-12 educational resources has rapidly expanded in the last few years through the abundance of education technology products (including mobile applications). Though mobile applications and online educational content have high levels of engagement with students, they are not considered as curricular learning because of their unstructured nature. In a study by the Gates foundation, 71% of high school dropouts reported lack of interest by 9th and 10th grade and the study recommends engaging learners through real-world, experiential learning. Students who drop out of school do not qualify for 90% of available jobs. The solution developed through this SBIR Phase 1 will empower students with choices and variety in content, and will be aligned to student's passion, e.g., choice of sound engineering videos and/or music-based math for an aspiring musicians. The use of such technology which is standards aligned and tuned to the student's passion is expected to improve student graduation rates and associated economic growth for the communities at large.The Phase 1 SBIR will provide a web-based system that is a first-of-its-kind integrated and personalized learning solution that can curate various types of educational resources for students and teachers and present these resources in a manner that is tuned to student's passions. It will provide school districts and families a sustainable and cost effective solution to make efficient use of limited resources and budgets to procure standards aligned content that are highly engaging to students. The resulting system will be organized as a consumer application that can facilitate the discovery of standards-aligned educational resources that work with the strength and the pace of a student, and personalize learning at the student level. This system will enable, ALL students, regardless of socioeconomic status to have access to relevant educational materials both inside and outside the classroom. An initial alpha launch, a pilot study and analytical data gathering involving teachers and students will be conducted over Phase 1 to study the efficacy of the developed solution. The goal of this research is to verify the system features, the ease of use and understand if Phase 1 activities result in a prototype that offers technical feasibility to solve the attempted problem.