Cl2-18

1. What are 1-3 best examples of PSLC accomplishments? How have these been “transformative” (NSF buzzword) for the learning sciences or education?

Ido:

1. Technological infrastructure for course implementation and evaluation
2. Framework for comparison and meta-analysis of studies

2. What are 1-3 best of PSLC accomplishments that results, at least in part, because of having a center (these could be the same as #1)? For each, why was this accomplishment less likely to have happened without the center (i.e., why couldn’t a regular grant have resulted in the same outcome)?

1. Individual projects are islands of afordability - it is the center that bridges between them to create an infrastructure.
2. It is through the on-going discussion and the breadth of projects that the framework was created. The framework emerged from this combination of top-down and bottom up process, that included researchers above the critical math.

3. Building off what we have accomplished, what are 1-3 ideas for where PSLC research should go in the future and how would these ideas be “transformative” for learning science or education?

1. More meta-analysis should be conducted on existing results using the existing framework. This meta-analysis should be done in two levels:
   1. Integrating results from different studies
   2. Looking at learning phenomenas across existing data-sets
2. This analysis should be contribute in two ways:
   1. Generating better science
   2. Generating better instructional principles.
3. Integration is the keyword here. Just like it required a center to turn the technological islands of affordability (e.g., CTAT) into a complete infrastructure, the next task of the center should be to bridge between the local islands of knowledge and principles to a more complete picture, or sheet.

From a collection of 0-D local principles to a sheet of 2-D knowledge.