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Cyberlearning Workshop Series
Motivation
View the final report: Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Learning for the Future: a Vision and Research Agenda (170 KB PDF).Technology holds, and has held, the promise of radically changing the learning of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This claim has certainly been made before, but we argue that it is dramatically more valid this time: we now know far more about how learning occurs, so can target development and implementation far more effectively; and the technology is radically different and phenomenally more powerful than that which has been available previously.
Given this, how should the National Science Foundation respond to the emerging opportunity to dramatically improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education? CRA and ISLS organized a series of workshops on core issues to help identify where their investments in educational technology would be most effective. The outcome of the proposed workshop series will help NSF develop programs for cyberlearning. NSF provided funding for the series.
Workshop Topics
There were a series of five workshops, four in subject areas and a fifth to bring together a small group to develop summative outcomes from the four subject area workshops.
Subject area workshops included:
- Modeling, Simulation and Gaming Technologies Applied to Learning (September 27-29, 2004, agenda, questions, attendees list)
- Cognitive Implications of Virtual or Web-enabled Environments (November 29 - December 1, 2004, agenda, questions, attendees list)
- Technologically Enabled Assessment (February 16-17, 2005, questions)
- Communities of Practice Enabled By Technology (March 24-25, 2005, draft agenda, questions)
There also were cross-cutting themes, such as the differential impact, if any, of technology on women and minorities.
Workshop Participation
The workshops were by invitation only and each was limited to approximately 20 non-NSF participants—small enough that everyone could participate in the discussions, but large enough that the group represented a good cross-section of the relevant community. An effort was made to ensure group diversity: in areas of specialization, in institutions represented (universities, commercial vendors, institutes, etc.), in gender and ethnicity, in ties to other academic disciplines and application areas, etc.
Final Outcome
The ultimate goal of the workshop series was to provide NSF with the proper community input to guide NSF’s investment in cyberlearning over the coming decade. The reports from the four workshops, including on-line discussions, were the input used at the fifth workshop. Participants in the fifth workshop consisted of participants from the first four workshops who had particularly impressed the Leadership Team with their insight, thoughtfulness and understanding of the ultimate goal of the effort.
This selected group met to develop the final workshop report (170 KB PDF), which included the results of the four preliminary workshops, appropriate NSF portfolio analysis and other relevant factors.
NSF was provided with a solid, community-wide planning document to aid in the development of NSF’s cyberlearning programs.
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