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NSF Cyberlearning Task Force Report

Investigator: Roy Pea, in a contributing role as NSF Cyberlearning Task Force Committee Member
Institution: Stanford University

During the first six months of 2008, the NSF Directorate of Education and Human Resources (EHR) and the Office of Cyberinfructure (OCI) convened the work of an interdisciplinary, public-private sector task force charged with providing advice and guidance to the EHR Directorate and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure on directions NSF should take in formulating a strategy to support transformative cyber-enabled STEM learning. The Task Force was established as a subcommittee of the parent federal advisory committees for both EHR and OCI.

Following the June 2008 publication of the report, to carry this strategic message to a European collection of over 100 research labs (ECTEL), to the UK (Becta), and to an international conference called E-Learn, LIFE researcher Roy Pea provided keynote addresses in the second half of 2008 synthesizing the highlights of the NSF Cyberlearning Task Force Report and the strategies and findings of the LIFE Center on informal learning and formal learning, as well as their implications for technology design and research priorities.

These contributions have brought insights from the research activities and literature networks of the LIFE Center into the synthesis and strategic activities developed by the taskforce committee in developing its framework and recommendations for guiding NSF’s 21st century agenda for transformative research with the potential for “Fostering Learning a Networked World.”

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