Center for Innovative Learning Technologies: A Learning Technologies Assessment Clearinghouse
The time is ripe for information technologies to make major contributions to improve
learning science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) at all levels and
for all learners. The continued exponential increase of preformance in information
technology, the huge interest in network technologies, our increasing understanding
of learning and intelligent systems, and the widespread concern for the educational
quality, standards, and technology utilization are combining to make what could be a
decade of revolution led by technology (Office of Science and Technology Policy, 1997).
Given these expetations, the small and diverse educational research and development
community must seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity and stimulate effective
innovations.
The primary CILT mission is to stimulate the development and implementation of important, technology-enabled solutions to critical problems in K-14 science, mathematics, engineering, and technology learning. Our approach is to engage the collaborative efforts of a wide spectrum of people and institutions: educators, computer scientist, and engineers, educations researchers, cognitive scientists, and subject matter experts throughout the country.
To accomplish this mission, CILT has set the following objectives:
The goals of each team is to identify areas of high potential impact of education, foster rapid collaborative innovation in these areas, support prototype technology that can be disseminated and studied, and engage postdoctoral scholars and graduate students in the theme's R&D. All teams will follow a similar annual process:
