DIP: Digital Studios for Social Innovation Networks

网络学习和未来学习技术计划资助的努力将有助于展望下一代学习技术，并促进我们对人们在技术丰富的环境中如何学习的了解。开发和实施(DIP)项目建立在概念验证工作的基础上，这些工作展示了拟议的新型学习技术的可能性，项目团队建立和完善了拟议创新的最低可行范例，使他们能够了解未来应如何设计和使用这种技术，并使他们能够回答关于人们如何学习、如何促进或评估学习、和/或如何为学习而设计的问题。一个重要的学习问题是帮助人们学习如何创新并应用多学科方法来解决复杂的现实世界问题。这项提案研究了如何使用虚拟设计工作室来支持人们学习如何成为未来的公民创新者的网络。支持从设计和复杂问题解决活动中学习，包括为成功解决问题和实现目标提供支持，以及为反思这些经验提供支持，以掌握协作和沟通技能，并开始学习创新的战略和策略。这项提案正在研究技术如何帮助人们学习创新的几种策略：设定共同目标、制定解决问题的策略、制定行动计划、就他们的想法获得帮助或反馈，以及发展领导技能。该项目将与两个全国性的公民创新者网络合作：一个是研究人员此前曾与之合作的美国设计组织，该组织应用工程方法来解决公民问题。第二个是罗斯福学院校园网络，致力于解决公民问题的政策创新。该项目的智力优势来自对Loft数字工作室学习平台的迭代改进，以及基于设计的研究，审查了与脚手架网络创新社区相关的六个设计主张。该研究将使用参与者观察、访谈和文档分析来检验这些工具是如何支撑学习过程的，并对部分学习者及其设计技能进行事后评估。这项工作计划在宏观一级使用一套2-3个月周期的嵌入式调查周期，在微观一级使用1-2周周期，以回应在两个试点受众--DFA和RICN--中实施LOFT的情况，包括对这两个组织芝加哥地区四个分会的平台使用情况进行深入分析。这项工作的更广泛的影响是描述如何支持网络创新社区，以及提供这些社区可以使用的工具(该项目开发的所有软件都是在开放源码许可下发布的)。

The Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies Program funds efforts that will help envision the next generation of learning technologies and advance what we know about how people learn in technology-rich environments. Development and Implementation (DIP) Projects build on proof-of-concept work that showed the possibilities of the proposed new type of learning technology, and project teams build and refine a minimally-viable example of their proposed innovation that allows them to understand how such technology should be designed and used in the future and that allows them to answer questions about how people learn, how to foster or assess learning, and/or how to design for learning. One important learning problem is helping people learn how to innovate and apply multidisciplinary approaches to complex, real-world problems. This proposal studies how virtual design studios can be used to support networks of people learning how to become the civic innovators of the future. Supporting learning from design and complex problem solving activities includes providing support for successfully solving problems and achieving goals as well as providing support for reflecting on those experiences to grasp the collaboration and communication skills and begin to learn strategies and tactics for innovating. This proposal is studying several strategies for how technology can help people learn to innovate: in setting common goals, developing problem solving strategies, developing action plans, getting help or feedback on their ideas, and developing leadership skills. The project will work with two national networks of civic innovators: one, the Design For America organization, which the researchers have previously collaborated with, applies engineering methods to solve civic problems. The second, the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, works on policy innovations to civic problems. The intellectual merit of this project comes from iterative refinement of the Loft digital studio learning platform, and design-based research examining six design propositions related to scaffolding networked innovation communities. The research will use participant observation, interviews, and document analysis to examine how the tools are scaffolding learning processes, and pre-post assessment of a subset of learners and their design skills. The work plans to use a set of embedded cycles of investigation at a macro-level of 2-3 month cycles and a micro-level of 1-2 week cycles in responding to the implementation of the Loft in the two pilot audiences, DFA and RICN, including intensive analysis of use of the platform in four Chicago area chapters of these two organizations. The broader impacts of the work are in characterizing how networked innovation communities can be supported, and in providing tools that such communities could use (all software being developed by the project is being released under an open-source license.)