Title: Reflections on Lessons Learned: The Center for Innovative Learning Technologies
1Reflections on Lessons Learned The Center for
Innovative Learning Technologies
Roy Pea Stanford University AERA 2003 Chicago,
Illinois
2Introducing CILT
Mission To serve as a national resource for
stimulating research on innovative,
technology-enabled solutions to critical problems
in K-14 STEM learning
Concord Consortium
3Center for Innovative Learning Technologies
- Uniting people, technology, and powerful ideas
for learning
4CILT Structure
- Core institutions, PI leadership council,
Postdocs, and research community partners in
projects - Encompassing domains CILTs activities and
programs fostered collaboration across
traditional community boundaries.
Practice
Policy
Research Community
Industry
Vanderbilt
SRI
Concord
Berkeley
Stanford
5CILT Mechanisms
- CILT leadership defined Theme Teams for
workshops and projects - Visualization Modeling
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Assessments for Learning
- Community Tools
- CILT's conferences and workshops advanced the
learning sciences and technology field - Provided a collaborative forum in which the
community met to assess the progress of the
field, define research agendas, and initiate new
partnerships. - Dynamic firehose, poster and demo presentations
presented new work and collaboration needs - CILT conducted 13 workshops/conferences with more
than 1,380 participants - These four theme teams spawned other activities
- Synergy Project (integrating work across the
theme-teams) and CILT NetCourses - CILT Knowledge Network (CILT-KN, from Community
Tools) - Design Principles Database (from Visualization
and Modeling)
6CILT Seed Grants
ICSAR (Interoperable Components for Shared
Active Representations (20-person seed and
related work)
- Workshops and conferences defined key areas for
important new collaborative work through group
brainstorming moderated by CILT leadership - Participants determined areas of priority
research by voting on poster-paper with sticky
dots - Defining seed projects People voted with their
feet to form teams based upon personal interests
in community-defined high-priority topics and
worked for most of a day to define projects - Seed grant teams proposed to be funded by CILT in
a rapid turnaround process - 60 CILT Seed Grants were awarded that involved
researchers, industry, and educators from 169
different institutions
7CILT Seed Grants (1997-2002)
8CILT Seeds
- The majority of the 60 seed grants continued
their work beyond the seed grant funding,
submitting follow-on proposals to NSF or other
sources, or leading to other community-wide
activities
9CILT Postdoctoral Fellow Program
- A postdoctoral program trained 8 scholars to work
at the intersection of the sciences of learning,
technology innovation, and technology
appropriation in learning settings including
schools. - Postdoctoral scholars were distributed across the
theme teams and institution, and stimulated both
theme collaborations and research synthesis. - Their contact with the members of the leadership
team, their participation in all CILT
discussions, and their role with respect to seed
grants enabled them to situate their own research
in the context of the field, to better understand
the needs of the field, and to share these views
with their junior colleagues. - They also designed and led Netcourses on the
themes for researchers and educators (6 weeks),
most offered twice.
10CILT Postdoctoral Fellows
11CILT Accomplishments
Raising the bar for what learning technology RD
can be
- Capturing, sharing and advancing the collective
intelligence of the field. - Promoting by requiring and seed funding
generative cross-disciplinary and cross-sector
partnerships. - Training a new generation of leaders.
- Modeling new collaborative approaches to learning
technology innovation Synergy - Engaging industry in CILT projects for mutual
influences to improve education through
research-based innovations.
12Ten CILT Posters
13- Yoko Ono's Wish Tree is part of a series of works
created in the 1990s, in which Ono uses actual
trees as the primary element. - Yoko "As a child in Japan, I used to go to a
temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin
paper and tie it around the branch of a tree.
Trees in temple courtyards were always filled
with people's wish knots, which looked like white
flowers blossoming from afar. - Yoko Ono asks that we, the audience, participate
in this wish tree by identifying our desires and
daring to write them down. - Make a wish about learning technology futures and
CILT-like partnerships. Write it down in this
space. - Ask your friends to do the same.
- Keep wishing until the Wish Tree is filled with
wishes.