Conference: Transforming Educational Technology Through Convergence

通过融合变革教育技术会议将召集研究人员，资助者，开发人员和从业者在线讨论教育技术的未来。为了最大限度地发挥影响力，会议将集中在三个轨道上选择他们的重要性，以整体学生的成功和他们的承诺作为研究和发展的目标。这些轨道是：课程嵌入式评估、中学数学和数据科学教育。学习科学已经取得了相当大的进步，围绕间隔学习、社交和情感学习、主动学习以及形成性反馈的价值等方面产生了重要的见解。然而，学习工具很少完全整合这些见解。开发人员通常也不会在一个强大的研究环境中构建工具，该环境鼓励实验，严格的评估和一致的迭代改进。融合研究和协作可以帮助更好地将研究整合到开发过程中，同时利用技术发展，例如学习分析和自然语言处理。本次会议旨在创建一个融合加速器轨道，促进教育技术变革所需的融合研究和合作。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标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Transforming Educational Technology Through Convergence Conference will convene researchers, funders, developers, and practitioners online to discuss the future of educational technology. In order to maximize impact, the conference will focus on three tracks chosen for both their importance to overall student success and their promise as targets of research and development. These tracks are: course-embedded assessment, middle school math, and data science education.The learning sciences have advanced considerably, producing significant insights around, for example, spaced learning, social and emotional learning, active learning, and the value of formative feedback. However, learning tools rarely fully integrate these insights. Nor do developers typically build tools in a robust research environment that encourages experimentation, rigorous evaluation, and consistent, iterative improvement. Convergence research and collaboration can help better integrate research into thedevelopment process while leveraging technological development in, for example, learning analytics and natural language processing. This conference seeks to enable the creation of a Convergence Accelerator track that facilitates the convergence research and collaboration that is required to transform educational technology.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.