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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 26,1997 PSA#1980LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES WORKSHOP ATP Public Meeting Announcement LEARNING
TECHNOLOGIES December 15, 1997 8:00am -- Come to Network 9:00am --
5:00pm -- Meeting Green Auditorium -- Administration Building National
Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD About the
Advanced Technology Program. NIST's Advanced Technology Program (ATP)
provides competitive, cost-shared awards for industry to develop
high-risk, enabling technologies with broad-based economic benefit. ATP
seeks to help industry fill the gap between basic research and product
development, and to invest in technology that would not be developed
in a competitive time frame without government cost-sharing. Along with
general competitions that are open to proposals from all technical
areas, ATP is also funding a series of "focused programs" with specific
business and technical goals. Background. The proposed Learning
Technologies (LT) focused program is designed to target the
instructional software industry. The program aims to facilitate
migration of content producers, learners (both workers and students)
and training as well as educational institutions to the Internet and
other distributed environments. Support provided through this program
is intended to encourage development and implementation of a new
generation of interoperable, multimedia content and service components
that are widely available on intranets, extranets, and the Internet.
The proposed scope of this program has been developed from a variety of
industrial inputs including industry roadmaps, white papers submitted
to ATP, and a number of projects from this technical area funded
through ATP's general and focused program competitions. Based on this
input, it is anticipated that the scope of the proposed program will be
limited to (a) authoring and other content-production tools which can
dramatically reduce the cost and time to market for educational content
(b) knowledge management and multi-sensory interface technology -- such
as intelligent agents, navigation tools, collaborative systems and
embedding devices -- that can improve the delivery of instructional
opportunities when needed and where needed; and (c) large-scale modular
components and middleware which can ensure a high quality of service in
networked learning environments, services which support a wide variety
of interactions and transactions for training and education.
Specifically excluded from the scope are stand-alone and
hard-to-maintain systems; projects focused exclusively on content or
simple components; tools incompatible with distributed access and a
strategy of customization; infrastructure incompatible with
collaborative applications; tools and infrastructure limited to
high-end or single purposes; tools and infrastructure that fail to
consider the needs and skill levels of end-users -- especially workers
or learners, trainers or educators, and domain experts or
nonprogrammers; projects that fail to demonstrate measurable gains in
either cost, time-to-market, usability, or manageability. Purpose. The
purpose of this workshop is to review the program scope, to provide
detailed planning, to make recommendations which will contribute to the
timely initiation of this program, and to confirm the program's linkage
to the needs of industry. Representatives from end-user groups,
companies or groups of companies, technical and trade associations,
academic institutions, non-profit research institutions, and government
laboratories who are developers of educational software and systems are
invited to critique the program plan (see ATP website under URL:
http://www.atp.nist.gov/atp/97wp-lt.htm). Comments should specifically
relate to the criteria by which ATP focused programs are selected: (a)
good technical ideas; (b) potential US economic benefit; (c) strong
industry commitment; and (d) opportunity for ATP support to make a
difference. Key Information. Location: NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland) in
the Green Auditorium of the Administration Building. No registration
fee will be charged. Participants may purchase food and beverages at
the NIST cafeteria. Contact Information. LOGISTICS: Toni Nashwinter,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899,
Tel: 301-975-3780; fax: 301-926-9524; email: toni.nashwinter@nist.gov.
TECHNICAL: Richard W. Morris, ATP/NIST, Tel: 301-975-4695; fax:
301-926-9524; email: richard.morris@nist.gov. BUSINESS: Roger Seis;
ATP/NIST; Tel: 301-975-3540; fax: 301-926-9524, email:
roger.sies@nist.gov. Registration. Please indicate interest in
attending via fax to Toni Nashwinter at fax number 301/926-9524 or
301/590-3053 or mail to ATP/LT Workshop; NIST; Bldg. 101, Rm. A411;
Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Additional Information. ATP at Hotline:
800-ATP-FUND, or 800-287-3863; Worldwide Web: http:// www.atp.nist.gov;
or email: atp@nist.gov. Proposed program plan is at
http://www.atp.nist.gov/atp/97wp-lt.htm. ATP Public Meeting
Announcement LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES December 15, 1997 Green Auditorium
-- Administration Building National Institute of Standards and
Technology Gaithersburg, MD WEB: Advanced Technology Program,
atp.nist.gov. E-MAIL: Advanced Technology Program, atp@nist.gov. Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0444 19971126\SP-0007.MSC)
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