EAGER: Partnerships for Urban STEM Learning Hubs

网络学习和未来学习技术计划资助的工作将有助于设想下一代学习技术，并推进我们对人们如何在技术丰富的环境中学习的了解。该项目将开始为研究伙伴关系建立一个试验台，以设计和测试面向智能和互联学习社区的网络学习系统。进行这类研究需要教育工作者、研究人员、技术人员和青年之间的合作，以及城市内各组织之间的持久关系。德保罗大学的数字青年网络设计了学习系统，旨在确保所有青年，特别是服务不足的青年，培养必要的关键技能、素养和能动性，使他们有机会创造参与、赋权和成功的生活。基于之前在芝加哥市测试自己的学习技术计划的成功，该项目将帮助DYN成为其他研究人员在大城市规模上使用技术学习模型的测试平台。这将使更多的研究人员能够更有效地建立和研究创新的方法，以部署技术，从而在这种规模上赋予不同的学习者权力。该项目将探索框架和协议的创建，以减少在创建研究伙伴关系时的摩擦，以支持创建支持技术、学习框架、活动结构、课程和人力资本流动整合的生态系统，这些都是支持跨空间、地点和时间学习所必需的。为了实现这一目标，该项目将开展四项活动：(1)与DYN正式和/或非正式的学习伙伴一起测试和试点三个现有的nsf资助项目，并根据这些经验完善测试平台伙伴关系的模型；(2)开展案例研究，阐明在社区学习中心内创建和实施城市规模测试平台的实践问题（从不同利益相关者的角度）；(3)制定与中心合作伙伴差异共享学生学习数据的协议，并与更大的网络学习社区聚合学习数据；(4)举办一个由两部分组成的研讨会，将包括中心合作伙伴在内的不同利益相关者聚集在一起，为研究仪器创新中心的开发和实施开发一个可测试的模型，旨在支持在资源不足的社区中对仍在开发中的NSF干预措施进行游戏测试。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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. This project will begin to build a testbed for research partnerships to design and test cyberlearning systems for smart and connected communities for learning. Doing this type of research requires partnerships between educators, researchers, technologists, and youth, and enduring relationships between organizations within a city. The Digital Youth Network at DePaul designs learning systems aiming to ensure that all youth, especially the underserved, cultivate the critical skills, literacies and agency necessary to have the opportunity to create lives that are engaged, empowered and successful. Building on prior successes of testing its own learning technology initiatives across the city of Chicago, this project will help DYN serve as a testbed for other researchers working towards models of learning with technologies at the scale of a large city. This will allow many more researchers to more effectively build and study innovative ways to deploy technology to empower diverse learners at that scale.The project will explore the creation of frameworks and protocols to reduce the friction in creating research partnerships to support the creation of ecosystems that support the fluid integration of the technologies, learning frameworks, activity structures, curriculum, and human capital, necessary to support learning across space, place, and time. To achieve this goal, the project will conduct four activities: (1) Playtest and pilot three existing NSF-funded projects with DYN formal and/or informal learning partners, and refine models for testbed partnerships based on these experiences; (2) Develop case studies that shed light on the problems of practice (from diverse stakeholder perspectives) around the creation and implementation of a city-scale testbed within a community learning hub; (3) Develop protocols for differential sharing of student learning data with hub partners and aggregate learning data with the larger cyberlearning community; and, (4) Host a two-part workshop that brings together a diverse group of stakeholders, including hub partners, to develop a testable model for the development and implementation of research-instrumented innovation hubs designed to support playtesting of still-in-development NSF interventions with under-resourced communities.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.