SBIR Phase I: Online curriculum for creating purpose-driven Start-ups

这个SBIR第一阶段项目更深入地研究了“目的”的概念及其与市场、失业和初创企业孵化器的关系。它打算开发一个多问题自我评估工具，通过免费、在线、现场和自定进度的混合课程教学帮助个人找到有意义的目标。课程将使用增强现实和3D视频来激励个人重新思考目标，将其作为就业和创业的核心动机。该项目与美国国家科学基金会S的使命相一致，即以科学技术促进国家健康、繁荣和福利。这些结果可能会产生新一代企业主，他们通过创业的双重底线方法致力于意义和金钱。该项目首次将自助寻找目标的教育工作与3-D视频和增强现实技术相结合。这个独特的项目提供免费的在线实时同步教育，结合混合的自定进度在线课程作业，帮助个人找到有意义的自我雇佣解决方案。这个项目使用了一种专有的培训方法，旨在帮助个人快速找到他们的生活目标，并发明一个有用的企业或非营利组织来解决世界上的问题。这项研究可以帮助学生重新调整他们的动机，通过商业或非营利性初创企业来规划有意义的人生历程。课程从这项活动开始，扩展到为学生提供通过微型企业或非营利性创造进入市场的机会。这些课程将利用预测分析来合成学生数据(例如每个学生在目的练习中输入的四个问题的答案)。这些数据将被重新组织和自动化，为学生提供一个明确和有针对性的目标声明。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This SBIR Phase I project takes a deeper look at the concept of 'purpose' and its relationship to the marketplace, unemployment, and start-up incubators. It intends to develop a multi-question self-assessment tool to help individuals find meaningful purpose through free, online, live and self-paced hybrid course instruction. The coursework will use augmented reality and 3-D video to motivate individuals to re-think purpose as a central motivation to employment and entrepreneurship. This project aligns with the NSF?s mission to advance national health, prosperity, and welfare with science and technology. These outcomes could potentially generate a new generation of business owners that are dedicated to meaning and money through a double bottom-line approach to entrepreneurship.This project combines the educational work of finding purpose through self- help and the technology of 3-D video and augmented reality for the first time. This unique project provides free online live synchronous education combined with hybrid self-paced online course work to help individuals find meaningful self-employment solutions. This project utilizes a proprietary training method designed to quickly help individuals find their purpose in life and invent a useful business or nonprofit to solve problems in the world. This research can help students re-center their motivations to chart a meaningful life course through a business or nonprofit start-up. The curriculum starts with this activity and extends to provide students an opportunity to enter the marketplace through micro-enterprise or nonprofit creation. The courses will utilize predictive analytics to synthesize student data (such as the answers each student inputs for the four questions in the purpose activity). The data will be reorganized and automated into a clear and targeted purpose proposition statement for the student.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.