STEM for All Collaboratory: Accelerating Dissemination and Fostering Collaborations for STEM Educational Research and Development

STEM for All合作实验室将通过创建和促进两个相关的互动平台来推动教育研究和发展：STEM for All视频展示和STEM for All Multiplex。视频展示提供了一个年度，在线，为期一周的互动活动，数百名教育研究人员和开发人员创建，分享和讨论他们的联邦资助工作的3分钟视频，以改善科学，数学，工程，技术和计算机科学教育。多年来成功的视频展示为丰富的视频数据库做出了贡献，展示了STEM教育的创新方法。为了利用不断增长的资源并扩大其影响，该项目将创建一个STEM for All Multiplex，这是对STEM教育的独特贡献。Multiplex将借鉴过去和未来的视频展示视频，为专业和公共交流创造一个多媒体环境，并为任何人提供一种方式来搜索不断增长的视频数据库，创建主题播放列表，并在新的教育和研究环境中重新使用内容。Multiplex将举办与新兴研究和实践相关的互动式每月主题在线活动，以改善正式和非正式环境中的STEM和计算机科学教育。每个专题活动将包括选定的视频介绍、专家小组讨论、资源、互动讨论和经验教训综述。所有活动都将向公众开放。该项目将继续主办和促进年度视频展示活动，该活动在一年内吸引了来自180多个国家的70，000多人。这项工作将由与NSF资源中心，学习网络和STEM专业组织的合作指导，并将推进11个合作组织的STEM研究和教育任务。视频展示和多重将促进联邦资助工作的传播，并将有效地分享NSF旨在改善STEM教育的投资。它将使演讲者相互学习，提供和接收反馈，批评和查询，这将改善正在进行的工作，并促进教育研究的新合作。它将把研究人员与从业人员联系起来，使两个群体能够从彼此的知识和观点中受益。此外，它将连接经验丰富的调查人员与来自不同背景的有抱负的调查人员，包括来自少数民族服务机构的调查人员。因此，它将使新的研究人员能够扩大他们对目前资助的工作的了解，同时也为他们提供与调查人员讨论资源、方法和影响措施的机会。因此，该项目有可能扩大未来STEM教育研究的调查人员。这项工作将通过研究这种多媒体环境如何改善目前资助的项目，促进新的努力和合作，建立新兴的多元化领导能力，该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

The STEM for All Collaboratory will advance educational research and development through the creation and facilitation of two related and interactive platforms: the STEM for All Video Showcase, and the STEM for All Multiplex. The Video Showcase provides an annual, online, week-long, interactive event where hundreds of educational researchers and developers create, share, and discuss 3-minute videos of their federally funded work to improve Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Technology and Computer Science education. Several years of successful Video Showcases have contributed to a rich database of videos showcasing innovative approaches to STEM education. To capitalize on the growing resource and extend its impact, this project will create a STEM for All Multiplex, a unique contribution to STEM education. The Multiplex will draw on past and future Video Showcase videos to create a multimedia environment for professional and public exchange, as well as to provide a way for anyone to search the growing database of videos, create thematic playlists, and re-use the content in new educational and research contexts. The Multiplex will host interactive, monthly, thematic online events related to emerging research and practices to improve STEM and Computer Science education in formal and informal environments. Each thematic event will include selected video presentations, expert panels, resources, interactive discussions and a synthesis of lessons learned. All events will be accessible and open to the public. The project will continue to host and facilitate the annual Video Showcase event which has attracted over 70,000 people from over 180 countries over the course of a year. This effort will be guided by a collaboration with NSF resource centers, learning networks, and STEM professional organizations, and will advance the STEM research and education missions of the 11 collaborating organizations. The Video Showcase and the Multiplex will foster increased dissemination of federally funded work and will effectively share NSF's investments aimed at improving STEM education. It will enable presenters to learn with and from each other, offering and receiving feedback, critique, and queries that will improve work in progress and to facilitate new collaborations for educational research. It will connect researchers with practitioners, enabling both groups to benefit from each other's knowledge and perspective. Further, it will connect seasoned investigators with aspiring investigators from diverse backgrounds, including those from Minority Serving Institutions. It will thereby enable new researchers to broaden their knowledge of currently funded efforts while also providing them with the opportunity to discuss resources, methodology and impact measures with the investigators. Hence, the project has the potential to broaden the future pool of investigators in STEM educational research. This work will further contribute to the STEM education field through its research on the ways that this multimedia environment can improve currently funded projects, catalyze new efforts and collaborations, build the capacity of emerging diverse leadership, and connect research and practice.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.