Collaborative Research: Empowering faculty to run online learning experiments

在美国国家科学基金会改进本科STEM教育计划：教育与人力资源（IUSE: EHR）的支持下，该项目旨在通过创建和改进位于开放数据驱动的教育技术平台上的开放数学教育内容，为国家利益服务。该项目将授权教师设计和实施在线学习实验，以测试新内容和创新教学策略的有效性。关于学生如何使用和学习这些材料的数据将帮助教师在课堂上有效地利用这些材料，并使作者能够开发引人入胜的教育体验，以最大限度地提高学习效果。使用这个平台，教师将能够根据快速变化的STEM领域随时修改他们的材料，并使这些材料适应学生的需求。该项目将开发分布式开放教育网络（Doenet），其核心是一种机制，用于测量和共享学生与网页的互动，并将匿名数据存储在开放的分布式数据仓库中。Doenet平台将包括以下工具：(a)编写交互式教育内容，(b)使用内容进行教育研究，以及(c)根据研究结果发现最有效的内容。Doenet将减少开发和获取在线内容和学习实验的障碍。来自各种机构的教师和研究人员将使用Doenet开发开放式互动教育内容，并进行小规模的学习实验，包括实验来调查通过互动内容引导学生的不同方式的影响。NSF IUSE: EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。该项目属于该计划的“参与学生学习”轨道，该轨道使有前途的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施成为可能。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。

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this project aims to serve the national interest by creating and improving open educational content in mathematics that resides on an open data-driven educational technology platform. The project will empower faculty to design and implement online learning experiments to test the effectiveness of new content and innovative teaching strategies. The data on how students use and learn from these materials will help instructors make effective use of the material in the classroom and enable authors to develop engaging educational experiences to maximize learning. Using this platform, instructors will be able to readily modify their materials in line with rapidly changing STEM fields and to adapt those materials to students' needs.The project will develop the Distributed Open Education Network (Doenet), which is, at its core, a mechanism for measuring and sharing student interactions with web pages and storing anonymized data in an open distributed data warehouse. The Doenet platform will include tools for (a) authoring interactive educational content, (b) conducting educational research using the content, and (c) discovering the most effective content based on the research results. Doenet will reduce barriers to the development and access of online content and learning experiments. Faculty and researchers from a variety of institutions will employ Doenet to develop open interactive educational content and conduct small scale learning experiments, including experiments to investigate the influence of different ways of guiding students through the interactive content. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. This project falls in the program's Engaged Student Learning track, which enables the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.