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2. Our Current State: Islands of Innovation
2. Our Current State: Islands of Innovation
Pages 13-22
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Multidisciplinary strategies for improving TT-enabled products put forward by workshop discussants addressed technological, cultural, legal, and economic issues. The following sections include brief descriptions of the existing environment for developers and users and the challenges that must be overcome.
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standards for web-based learning applications, the Instructional Management Systems Global Learning Consortium (TMS) standards for online distributed learning networks, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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Tools are used to help users build new modules, adapt existing modules for new purposes, and assemble collections of modules to for a specific educational activity. NSDL and MERLOT are large-scale initiatives that store educational content for STEM educators.
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Many of the tools for authoring, repurposing, maintaining, and distributing learning content do not use technology consistently to support content-oriented markup. For example, many people are familiar with web-authoring applications, such as Adobe PageMill, Microsoft Frontpage, and Macromedia Dreamweaver, that produce hypertext markup language (HTML)
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In spite of the explosion and popularity of electronic games and electronic learning aids for all students, beginning with pre-schoolers, and despite the modern practice of including CDROM textbook supplements, references to internet sites in textbooks, and other electronic features to enhance texts and other traditional educational materials, most students and teachers have had minimal exposure to TT-based practices and resources in the classroom. Moreover, once students and teachers have developed successful classroom learning strategies, they expect to continue learning the way they have always learned.
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Social models for growing and nurturing communities of practicecollective groups of practitioners united by a common goal and models for realizing specific behavioral changes in target populations or organizational cultures have been developed. However, environments.
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and DSpace are examples of institutional commitments to support the broad dissemination and sharing of learning materials through online media. The Creative Commons initiative is an example of a structure that supports users who wish to provide open access to learning materials and addresses the most common obstacles related to ownership and intellectual property rights.
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Connexions at Rice University has developed its own modular approach for delivering domainspecific lesson materials to engineering faculty. The Sooner City Project at the University of Oklahoma is an online curriculum for civil engineering students from freshman through senior year.
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Our Current State: Islands of Innovation 21 the artificial intelligence community, we know that plausible systems should be developed before large-scale changes are proposed. And based on the difficulties encountered by the NSF engineering research centers and engineering education coalitions, we know that we must create an economically sustainable infrastructure to make a lasting change.
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The workshop participants agreed on the need to embrace a scholarship of learning to create the intellectual capital that would support effective STEM education and the development of better tools to assess STEM learning outcomes. Human, Cultural, and Organizational Issues Even if we had easy-to-use tools for developing content, efficient architectures that supported sharing and reuse, and valid pedagogical models for achieving advanced STEM learning outcomes, there would still be significant barriers to the use of IT in the service of education.
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