{"id":42565,"date":"2013-09-24T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T16:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=42565"},"modified":"2013-09-24T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T16:27:51","slug":"check-out-what-the-air-force-collaboratory-is-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/09\/24\/check-out-what-the-air-force-collaboratory-is-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out what &#8220;The Air Force Collaboratory&#8221; is doing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Per Candace Opstvedt from Digital BrinQ:<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/collaboratory.airforce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Air Force Collaboratory<\/a> is &#8220;an interactive online platform that invites STEM inclined students, educators and innovators to solve some of the Air Force\u2019s toughest challenges.\u00a0 Over 900 ideas have already been submitted by participants in the first project, and we are confident that the \u201cMind of a Quadrotor\u201d project will be just as successful.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cMind of a Quadrotor\u201d became active starting on September 1, 2013, and will remain open through October 31.\u00a0 Anyone with an idea can submit their plan for how quadrotors can be used to perform certain actions autonomously; that is with minimal human intervention.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To give you a little more background, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/collaboratory.airforce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Air Force Collaboratory website<\/a>. You can also check out project highlights and information at, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/stem\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.good.is\/stem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/collaboratory.airforce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42572\" alt=\"AirForceCollaboratory-Sep2013\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AirForceCollaboratory-Sep20131.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AirForceCollaboratory-Sep20131.jpg 689w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AirForceCollaboratory-Sep20131-91x150.jpg 91w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AirForceCollaboratory-Sep20131-622x1024.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">(At least) a few things strike me as noteworthy here:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Note the potential power of a web-based learner profile like this. Create a web-based profile. Choose project. Earn badges\/achievements. Solve topics. Follow your activity<\/strong> (i.e. progress).\u00a0 Hmmmmmmm&#8230;..interesting&#8230;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The use of <strong>crowdsourcing<\/strong> to identify\/create solutions for existing problems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Presenting<strong> real-world problems\/projects<\/strong> and asking for<strong> real-world solutions.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per Candace Opstvedt from Digital BrinQ: The Air Force Collaboratory is &#8220;an interactive online platform that invites STEM inclined students, educators and innovators to solve some of the Air Force\u2019s toughest challenges.\u00a0 Over 900 ideas have already been submitted by participants in the first project, and we are confident that the \u201cMind of a Quadrotor\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,180,432,199,239,62,309,196,305,486,166,80,321,49],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-42565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-higher-education","category-innovation","category-learner-profiles","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-platforms","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-project-based-learning","category-real-world-assignments","category-social-learning-networks","category-stem-related","category-united-states","category-web-based-collaboration","tag-crowdsourcing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42565"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42574,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42565\/revisions\/42574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}