POSE: Phase I: An Open-Source Ecosystem for the Creation and Use of Accessible Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Open Education Resources

该项目由启用开源生态系统路径(POST)计划资助，该计划旨在利用开源发展的力量，为国家和社会重大问题创造新的技术解决方案。科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教育材料是开源的，免费提供给学习者和教育工作者，称为开放教育资源(OER)，需要超过商业替代方案质量的基础设施。该项目的范围是创建一个由两个现有的开源产品组成的开源生态系统(OSE)：一个是创作适用于STEM所有领域的学术文件和教科书的借口，另一个是Runstone学习工程和分析门户网站，用于出版支持K-12和高等教育的教学和教育研究的OER教科书。这种OSE的长期社会影响是开源教科书，通过开源生态系统的教师、作者和研究人员的支持，免费提供给全国的STEM教室和学生。此外，OER通过消除研究人员、作者、教师和学生之间的障碍，有可能反映STEM教育研究的前沿进展。可以将借口创作的作品转换为HTML、印刷和盲文格式，从而使广泛的学习者可以免费访问所产生的开放教育资源，这是确保所有学生都有平等的教育机会的公平方法。范围界定活动包括策划方法，以创建多方面、可访问和互动的STEM教育内容，并为学生、教师、内容作者和研究人员提供与教科书材料无缝互动的机制，以产生和利用分析。该团队将在项目的前半部分举行利益相关者的虚拟会议，最终在项目结束时举行面对面的峰会。对该项目的评估将包括来自更大的STEM OER社区的与会者和专家的定性反馈，包括来自替代OER平台和聚合器的反馈。该项目旨在支持为开放教育资源社区服务的可持续和强大的开源生态系统的基础设施和治理结构的发展。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。

This project is funded by Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program which seeks to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) educational materials that are open-sourced and made freely available to learners and educators, known as Open Educational Resources (OER), require an infrastructure that exceeds the quality of commercial alternatives. This project scopes the creation of an Open-Source Ecosystem (OSE) consisting of two existing open-source products: PreTeXt for authoring scholarly documents and textbooks suitable for all areas of STEM, and the Runestone learning engineering and analytics portal for publishing OER textbooks that support both instruction and education research in K-12 and higher education. The long-term societal impacts of this OSE are open-source textbooks that are made freely available to the nation’s STEM classrooms and students through the Open-Source Ecosystem’s support of instructors, authors, and researchers. Furthermore, the OER has the potential to reflect cutting-edge advancements in STEM education research by removing the barriers between researchers, authors, instructors, and students. PreTeXt-authored works can be converted into HTML, print, and braille formats, enabling the resulting Open Educational Resources to be accessible to a wide range of learners at no cost, an equitable approach to ensuring that all students have the same access to education. The scoping activities include curating methods to create multifaceted, accessible, and interactive STEM education content, and providing mechanisms for students, instructors, content authors, and researchers to seamlessly interact with textbook materials to produce and utilize analytics. The team will hold virtual meetings of stakeholders throughout the first half of the project, culminating in an in-person summit at the end of the project. Evaluation of the project will include qualitative feedback from meeting participants and experts across the larger STEM OER community, including those from alternative OER platforms and aggregators. The project aims to support the development of an infrastructure and governance structure for a sustainable and robust Open-Source Ecosystem in service of Open Educational Resources 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.