SBIR Phase II: Digital rehabilitation platform for higher education, mental health, and workforce readiness

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将为美国220万被监禁者和7000万有犯罪记录的人提供安全可靠的学习，职业培训和重返社会解决方案，以确保他们拥有重新进入劳动力市场所需的技能和信心。确保这些被边缘化和代表性不足的人口获得强有力的教育和康复机会，对美国的公共安全、稳定的社区和劳动力发展至关重要。最近的研究得出结论，每1美元用于矫正教育计划可以为国家节省4 - 5美元。这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目旨在提高在线/离线应用程序集成平台的能力，这些平台是为被监禁或以前被监禁的个人定制的，包括：应用程序集成，安全过滤，汇总学习者记录保存，使用跟踪，消息记录和劳动力机会匹配。在离线和在线环境中提供内容的能力为市场上可用的学习技术平台提供了技术进步。此外，该平台正在解决从多个应用程序中获取广泛的学习数据并处理这些数据以确定学生的表现和能力的难题，以使能力和兴趣与劳动力机会保持一致。这使得Nucleos能够更容易地集成第三方应用程序，为在各种安全限制的设施中被监禁的学习者提供更广泛的电子学习机会，并促进更好的学习成果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will deliver safe and secure learning, vocational training, and re-entry solutions to America’s 2.2 million incarcerated people and 70 million people with criminal records in order to ensure they have the skills and confidence needed to re-enter the workforce. Ensuring these marginalized and underrepresented populations has access to robust education and rehabilitation opportunities is critical for American public safety, stable communities, and workforce development. Recent studies have concluded that every $1 spent on corrections education programs can yield $4-$5 in savings to the state. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project seeks to increase the capability of online/offline application integration platforms which are customized for incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals, including: application integrations, security filtering, aggregated learner record keeping, usage tracking, message-logging, and workforce opportunity matching. The ability to deliver content in offline and online environments offers a technical advance in the learning technology platforms available on the market. Additionally, the platform is tackling the difficult issues of ingesting a wide range of learning data from multiple applications and processing this data to determine student performance and aptitude to align capabilities and interests with workforce opportunities. This allows Nucleos to more easily integrate third-party applications, provide a greater range of e-learning opportunities for incarcerated learners at facilities with a wide variation in security restrictions, and promote better learning outcomes.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.