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Cyberlearning at NSF Cyberlearning explores opportunities for promoting and assessing learning made possible by new technologies, ways to help learners capitalize on those opportunities, new practices made possible by learning technologies, and ways of using technology to promote deep and lasting learning of content, practices, skills,

Cyberlearning at NSF Cyberlearning explores opportunities for promoting and assessing learning made possible by new technologies, ways to help learners

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Cyberlearning at NSF

Cyberlearning explores opportunities for promoting and assessing learning made possible by new technologies, ways to help learners capitalize on those opportunities, new practices made possible by learning technologies, and ways of using technology to promote deep and lasting learning of content, practices, skills, attitudes, and/or dispositions needed for engaged and productive citizenship

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Programs Supporting Cyberlearning

• Cyberlearning Transforming Education• Discovery Research K-12• Research on Learning and Education• Small Business Innovative Research• Transforming Undergraduate Education in

STEM• Intelligent Information Systems

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Cyberlearning Transforming Education

VISION

To transform learning through the use of technology for all

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MISSION

Support research in learning and technology through multi-disciplinary, peer reviewed proposals received from universities, small businesses, and non-profits.

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Strategy

• Develop a cross Directorate program to solicit, evaluate, and award proposals supporting the vision

• Coordinate research support with support provided by other Directorates through a cross-directorate cordination committee

• Build capacity through the funding of a network that serves all cyberlearning supported at NSF and at other agencies

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FY 11 & FY 12 Awards Overview

• Wide variety of learning and education issues addressed

• Wide variety of learners addressed • Learning contexts quite varied • Technologies quite varied