STEM Videohall: Connecting Communities and Disseminating Cutting Edge Work Through Video and Discourse

STEM 视频厅：通过视频和话语连接社区并传播前沿工作

基本信息

批准号：
1642187
负责人：
Joni Falk
金额：
$ 179.38万
依托单位：
TERC Inc
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-10-01 至 2020-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1642187&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
STEM Videohall Connecting Communities Disseminating

项目摘要

Video has become a key tool for scientific communication because it increases the outreach and impact of projects, furthers scientific research within and across fields of study, and offers an accessible medium to engage the public in the understanding of science. This project supports the expansion of an interactive, online STEM Videohall where hundreds of NSF-funded researchers share their work through brief video narratives and interactive discussion. While the Videohall is accessible year-round, periodic annual Showcase events are used to drive visitors to the site where they can engage with one another, the project investigators and trained facilitators. The Videohall is a multiplier of NSF's investments in individual projects because it allows STEM education researchers to become aware of, and learn from, related work that is funded across NSF programs and directorates, and other federal agencies. In 3-minute video narratives, investigators share ideas, resources, data, evidence of impact, strategies and challenges. The Videohall platform supports open access and is designed to foster communication in ways that scale beyond traditional formats such as academic conferences. Moreover, because the online STEM Videohall is open to the public, it allows STEM investigators to share their work with multiple stakeholder communities including K-12 educators and school leaders, informal educators and community organizations, the STEM industry, education policy makers and families. Finally, because each video narrative is accompanied by a facilitated online discussion thread, investigators have a unique and valuable mechanism for receiving feedback from these various stakeholder communities. The STEM Videohall project is funded by the Discovery Research K-12 program (DRK-12), which seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. This project brings together seven NSF-funded resource centers who work with their respective communities to encourage Principal Investigators to share video narratives of their work through annual NSF STEM Showcase events. Each annual Showcase event presents videos created by 150-230 projects; many of the projects are affiliated with one of the seven resource centers, but others are from projects across NSF directorates and beyond. During a one-week period, Principal Investigators, their project staff, as well as the public at large, are invited to engage in interactive discourse, providing queries, comments, and feedback. Participants also vote for favorite presentations through "Presenters' Choice," "Public Choice," and "Facilitators' Choice," processes. This participant voting system serves to increase engagement and enhances outreach of the event through social media. After the one-week Showcase event concludes, all of the videos along with the related discourse remain available to the public online, who continue to access the Showcase throughout the year. Based on prior pilot work, it is estimated that over the course of a year, over 30,000 visitors, from over 150 countries, will engage with each annual Showcase. Videos from annual showcase events will be shared, reused, and repurposed to create new products with new constituencies. The project includes technical development efforts to iteratively improve its interactive platform, outreach efforts before each annual Showcase event, facilitation of the week-long event, and intensive dissemination efforts. A research component examines the extent of participation on various constituencies, the benefit of participation to projects, and the success of the events in terms of dissemination nationally and internationally.

视频已成为科学沟通的关键工具，因为它增加了项目的外展和影响，进一步促进了研究领域和整个研究领域的科学研究，并提供了一种可访问的媒介，以吸引公众参与科学的理解。该项目支持扩大交互式的在线STEM Videohall，其中数百名NSF资助的研究人员通过简短的视频叙述和互动讨论分享了他们的作品。虽然视频厅全年可访问，但定期的年度展示活动被用来吸引访问者到他们可以互相互动的访客，项目调查人员和训练有素的促进者。 Videohall是NSF对单个项目的投资的乘数，因为它允许STEM教育研究人员意识到并从NSF计划和局以及其他联邦机构资助的相关工作中了解和学习相关工作。在3分钟的视频叙述中，研究人员分享了思想，资源，数据，影响，策略和挑战的证据。 Videohall平台支持开放访问，旨在以扩展传统格式（例如学术会议）的方式来促进交流。此外，由于在线STEM Videohall向公众开放，因此STEM调查人员可以与包括K-12教育者和学校领导者，非正式教育者和社区组织，STEM行业，教育政策制定者和家庭在内的多个利益相关者社区分享他们的工作。最后，由于每个视频叙述都伴随着促进的在线讨论线程，因此调查人员具有从这些利益相关者社区的反馈中获得独特而有价值的机制。 STEM Videohall项目由Discovery Research K-12计划（DRK-12）资助，该计划旨在通过PreK-12学生和教师通过创新资源，模型和工具的研究和开发来大大增强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学。 DRK-12计划中的项目基于STEM教育和先前的研发工作的基础研究，这些研究为拟议项目提供了理论和经验的理由。该项目汇集了七个由NSF资助的资源中心，他们与各自社区合作，鼓励首席调查人员通过年度NSF STEM展示事件分享其工作的视频叙述。每个年度展示活动都会介绍由150-230个项目创建的视频；许多项目隶属于七个资源中心之一，但其他项目来自NSF局及其他地区的项目。在为期一个星期的时间里，主要调查人员，他们的项目人员以及整个公众应邀请参与互动式话语，提供查询，评论和反馈。参与者还通过“演示者的选择”，“公共选择”和“促进者的选择”流程来投票选出最喜欢的演讲。该参与者投票系统旨在通过社交媒体来增加参与度并增强活动的宣传。在为期一周的展示活动结束后，所有视频以及相关的话语都可以在线公众使用，他们将全年继续访问展示柜。根据先前的试点工作，据估计，在一年的时间里，超过150个国家 /地区的30,000多名访客将与每个年度展示柜进行互动。年度展示活动的视频将被共享，重复使用和重新使用，以创建具有新选区的新产品。该项目包括技术开发工作，以迭代地改善其交互式平台，在每次展示活动之前进行宣传工作，为期一周的活动的便利以及密集的传播工作。一个研究部分研究了各种选区的参与程度，参与项目的好处以及在国内和国际上传播事件的成功。