Deadline: NSF Data-Intensive Research to Improve Teaching and Learning

NSF Data-Intensive Research to Improve Teaching and Learning
Deadline for Preliminary Proposals (to participate in the Ideas Lab): August 19, 2013
Deadline for Full Proposals (preliminary proposal and participation in Ideas Lab not required): December 9, 2013
Eligible Disciplines: STEM Disciplines, Computer Science, Behavioral Science, Statistics, Database Research, Education Research
Award Amount: Costs of attending the Ideas Lab will be covered for participants accepted to the Lab; Up to 10 full proposals anticipated to be funded in FY 14, the total funding amount anticipated by NSF for all awards is $5,000,000

The goal of this activity is to foster novel, transformative, multidisciplinary approaches that address the use of large data sets to create actionable knowledge for improving STEM teaching and learning environments (formal and informal) in the medium term, and to revolutionize learning in the longer term. These approaches will involve the work of learning scientists, STEM disciplinary experts, computer scientists, statisticians, database experts and educational researchers who design and study learning environments. The new approaches envisioned in this solicitation will require the generation and use of data that range from micro-level data on individual learners, to data from online learning sources (such as massively open online courses), to meso-level data from the classroom that provide information to students and teachers about how learning is progressing, to macro-level data such as school, district, state, and national data, including data from federal science and policy agencies. Participants in the Ideas Lab, selected through an open application process, will engage in an intensive five-day residential workshop, the development of multidisciplinary collaborative proposals through a real-time and iterative review process, and, for the participant teams invited to submit full proposals, the subsequent submission of full proposals.