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DUE Division Of Undergraduate Education |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 26, 2016 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 26, 2016 |
| Award Number: | 1601456 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
R. Corby Hovis
chovis@nsf.gov (703)292-4625 DUE Division Of Undergraduate Education EDU Directorate for STEM Education |
| Start Date: | September 1, 2016 |
| End Date: | August 31, 2020 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $828,232.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $828,232.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
2 HAVEN ST READING MA US 01867-2959 (781)670-9911 |
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MA US 01867-2959 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Advanced Tech Education Prog |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.076 |
ABSTRACT
At ATETV (http://www.atetv.org), Pellet Productions has produced and hosted over 250 high-quality videos highlighting educational and career opportunities in Advanced Technological Education (ATE). Many ATE grantees and other educators are not only using ATETV's digital assets for teaching, for recruiting students, and for training faculty, but are also creating their own content. With the proliferation of small, affordable digital video cameras and smartphones, grantees can now easily capture, produce, and share content. However, in many cases, these home-grown video projects fall short of meeting their goals and engaging their audience, largely for reasons having to do with the way the video content is produced and disseminated. These time-consuming, well-intentioned ventures thus lead to "digital dust." In this project, Pellet Productions will develop an instructional process to support ATE grantees as they plan, produce, disseminate, archive, and measure the outcomes of their own accessible digital videos. In addition, content created by ATE grantees will be curated into an online video library accessible to all users. These enhancements to ATETV will support the spread of effective teaching-and-learning materials and strategies, as well as the development of faculty expertise.
The project team will develop, test, and refine an "ATE Digital Video Content Conceptual Framework" and support system. The framework will be based on the industry standard video production process but will be carefully refined for college faculty and administrators, with a sensitivity toward their skills and resource constraints. The project team will also establish a tiered system of support to ensure that grantees have the tools and confidence to produce high-quality content that will engage their audience. A key component of this effort will be a five-part course that presents the foundational skills for producing digital video content, accompanied by an interactive e-book that will help grantees organize their thoughts, articulate goals and objectives for their videos, and follow a production checklist of necessary components. The e-book will also include a series of templates (such as a goals-and-objectives worksheet) and outline and scripting formats. The project team will work with a subset of ATE grantees to test and refine the resources. The success of this cohort of participants in producing and disseminating content will be shared throughout the ATE community and with other groups of technician educators.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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This project leveraged and upgraded ATETV by consolidating and curating existing STEM video content into a searchable repository of technician education digital content. It also established a platform for successful user-generated content to live and be accessible to others. This project is produced an instructional series for STEM educators. The goal of this project was to provide technician educators a greater understanding of how to create their own visual media, including utilizing the existing ATETV repository of STEM content. This project provided, and will continue to provide, structure and resources to assist technician educators because it enhances their ability to create media, by offering instruction on how to produce high quality videos with the most impact to reach intended audiences in successful and measurable ways. Project goals were achieved by creating a curated library of STEM content accessible through ATETV, and creating an online course consisting of an eBook and instructional video modules, teaching STEM educators how to develop, produce and disseminate digital content. ATETV’s website was also expanded to support third-party materials. Now educators are able to upload STEM technician content to ATETV’s website.
Improving STEM educators’ ability to access, create and upload STEM content through the ATETV website expands accessibility across the country for all STEM educators, broadens visibility of STEM education, and creates a collaborative resource for housing and sharing STEM digital resources, all of which supports the NSF’s overarching goal of expanding the STEM technician workforce through STEM education.
Last Modified: 12/29/2020
Modified by: Mary Ellen Gardiner
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