Description:
EA1 topics can include 1) technology transfer of innovative and sustainable products and services that leverage and commercialize the education research investments made to educational institutions by the
National Science Foundation and other government agencies; 2) authentic and active learning approaches that are more student-centered in environments that are familiar to learners that provide solutions which address the needs of a variety of learners for pre K-12 students, 3) innovative delivery, applications, content, and curricula on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) that provides new or alternative forms of sharing and repurposing information, content, pedagogies, and experiences that are long-term and sustainable; 4) learning technologies that motivate and enhance the self-esteem and learning performance of students; 5) innovative applications that better enable classroom management, recordkeeping, and standards-aligned planning, and facilities management, 6) applications that ease the burden of the ever increasing roles and responsibilities that educators and enables them to more effectively use educational resources; 7) systems and tools that may better enable education leaders to implement change across institutional settings; 8) authoring systems and content generators that easily allow educators to create, distribute, and share new resources across multiple platforms; and 9) digital badges and other credentialing mechanisms that motivate students to achieve desired outcomes and aid teachers in professional development efforts.
