InstAcademy: connecting informal learning spaces

连贯性学习有限公司计划推出其新的云平台InstAcademy，将家庭、社区和学校的学习联系起来。InstAcademy使任何学生和幼儿的父母能够在任何地点和时间找到学习机会，并通过“即时”辅导将其与课堂上的正式学习联系起来。InstAcademy平台将课堂上的学习与每天发生在任何地方的学习联系起来，比如博物馆、画廊、公园和游戏中心、足球场和女童军团体。InstAcademy使教师能够了解学生对当地和社区的兴趣，并将其带入课堂，进行有意义的、地区性的、个性化的、即时相关的学习。它使父母能够在参观博物馆或在公园玩耍时了解他们如何支持孩子的学校学习。它使学生能够分享对他们有意义的东西，并将其纳入课堂学习，使学校课程更具相关性和吸引力。生成的学习数据将使非正式教育工作者和机构能够了解参与者如何参与与其正式学习经验相关的活动、事件、对象和空间。后接触数据将证明用户/访客在一个地方的体验如何被视为与其他空间或不同时间的同一空间相关。这反过来又可以为区域、组织和个人的学习目标提供有针对性的学习设计，并为学校和正规教育机构的课程规划提供信息。该项目将开发一个解释性的“连接内容”库，我们的平台支持，可用于支持学习和家长参与他们的课程概念的学习，特别关注STEAM科目。这将证明该内容对家长、导师、儿童保育员和其他非正式教育者的价值，并在现有证据的基础上证明该内容对教师的价值。该项目还将使我们能够通过更好地了解用户如何与关联内容互动，有效地将AI图像识别和地理定位设计到平台开发路线图中。Cohere和InstAcademy的原型是由Amanda Banks Gatenby博士和Sara Jackson博士创建的，她们都是STEAM的教育讲师，她们都热衷于通过参与课堂之外的社区活动，让所有学生的学习变得有意义。

Cohere Learning Ltd plans to launch its new cloud-based platform InstAcademy, connecting the learning that happens at home, in the community and at school. InstAcademy enables any student and parent of young children to find the learning opportunity in any place and moment and connects this to the formal learning in a classroom through 'just-in-time' tutoring.The InstAcademy platform connects learning in classrooms to the learning that happens everywhere, everyday, such as in museums, galleries, parks and play centres, on football pitches and in Girl Guiding groups. InstAcademy enables teachers to understand their students' interests in relation to their local places and communities and bring this into the classroom for meaningful, regional and personally, immediately relevant learning. It enables parents to understand how they can support their childrens' school learning while visiting a museum or playing in a park. It enables pupils to share what is meaningful to them and for this to be included in classroom learning, making school lessons more relevant and engaging.The learning data generated will enable informal educators and institutions to understand how participants engage with their activities, events, objects and spaces in relation to their formal learning experiences. Post encounter data will evidence how a user/visitor experience in one place is seen as related to other spaces or the same space at a different time. This can in turn inform targeted learning design for regional, organisational and individual learning objectives as well as informing lesson planning in schools and formal education settings.This project will develop a bank of the explanatory 'connective content' that our platform enables, which can be used to support learning and parental engagement in their learning of curricular concepts, with a particular focus on STEAM subjects. This will evidence the value of this content to parents, tutors, child minders and other informal educators and build on existing evidence of the value to teachers. The project will also enable us to effectively design AI image recognition and geolocation into the platform development roadmap, through better understanding of how users engage with the connective content.Cohere and the InstAcademy prototype was set up by Dr Amanda Banks Gatenby and Dr Sara Jackson who are STEAM Lecturers in Education, both passionate about making learning meaningful for all students by engaging communities beyond the classroom.