NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Project ACCESS: Accessible Cyber Content Expanded through State Synergies

NSF包括规划补助金：项目访问：通过州协作扩大可访问的网络内容美国STEM劳动力的增长对经济和全球竞争力至关重要。为了实现这些目标，需要在社会各阶层中培养STEM人才。这一规划赠款项目将推进无障碍网络教育活动的使用，并为内容创作者、活动领导人、国家机构、非营利组织、教育工作者、残疾STEM专业人员、劳动力发展计划、无障碍STEM设备制造商和其他人建立能力，以合作并扩大残疾学习者在STEM劳动力中的参与。合作组织将共享可访问的网络教育资源，促进职业发展机会，并主办虚拟同行学习社区。该项目的总体目标是加强和扩大合作，促进无障碍网络教育资源和活动，以加强残疾人士为STEM职业生涯做准备。该项目将采用实践社区的方法，将人们聚集在一起，相互学习。规划赠款活动包括协作制定计划，以实施支持大规模网络所需的基础设施；吸引更多的战略合作伙伴；探索扩大和持续使用无障碍网络教育活动的机会，以帮助残疾人为参加STEM劳动力做好准备。该项目还将继续努力传播无障碍内容，以便在非正式学习环境和劳动力发展方案中使用。预期的项目成果是增加对可访问网络教育内容的了解，并增强扩大残疾人参与美国STEM工作队伍的能力。这项NSF包括规划拨款由NSF纳入全国工程和科学领域未被充分代表的发现者的学习社区(NSF Includes)资助，这是一项综合性的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和扩大对STEM的参与来增强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。该奖项反映了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。

NSF INCLUDES Planning Grant: Project ACCESS: Accessible Cyber Content Expanded through State SynergiesThe growth of the United States STEM workforce is important to economic and global competitiveness. Developing STEM talent among all sectors of society is needed in order to reach these goals. This planning grant project will advance the use of accessible cyber education activities and build capacity for a national network of content creators, event leaders, state agencies, non-profits, educators, STEM professionals with disabilities, workforce development programs, manufacturers of accessible STEM equipment, and others to collaborate and broaden the participation of learners with disabilities in the STEM workforce. Partnering organizations will share accessible cyber education resources, promote professional development opportunities, and host virtual peer learning communities. The overall goal of the project to strengthen and expand collaborations that promote accessible cyber education resources and activities to enhance the preparation of individuals with disabilities for STEM careers.The project will use a communities of practice approach, which brings people together to learn with and from each other. Planning grant activities include collaboratively developing plans for implementing the infrastructure needed to support a large-scale network; engaging additional, strategic partners; and exploring opportunities to scale and sustain the use of accessible cyber education activities to prepare individuals with disabilities to participate in the STEM workforce. The project will also include continuing efforts to disseminate accessible content for use in informal learning environments and workforce development programs. Expected project outcomes are increased knowledge of accessible cyber education content and enhanced capacity for broadening the participation of individuals with disabilities in the U.S. STEM workforce.This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale.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.