Infrastructuring for Knowledge Building: Advancing a framework for sustained innovation

Despite the wide implementations and extensive research base that has developed on knowledge building communities, continued efforts are required to address the challenges of implementing innovations in diverse contexts as well as sustaining them over time. In this paper, we draw on the idea of infrastructuring as an emergent, multilevel approach that can shed new light on ways to do this. After defining the notion of infrastructuring and showing its unique potential to sustain knowledge building, we examine three cases of infrastructuring within the context of efforts to grow knowledge building innovations in existing educational ecologies. This paper offers some new insights into how infrastructuring can be conceptualized to expand and sustain knowledge building innovations. © 2023 Progedit. All rights reserved

Innovating Pedagogy 2017: Exploring new forms of teaching, learning and assessment, to guide educators and policy makers. Open University Innovation Report 6

This series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. This sixth report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education. To produce it, a group of academics at the Institute of Educational Technology in The Open University collaborated with researchers from the Learning In a NetworKed Society (LINKS) Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE). Themes: • Big-data inquiry: thinking with data • Learners making science • Navigating post-truth societies • Immersive learning • Learning with internal values • Student-led analytics • Intergroup empathy • Humanistic knowledge-building communities • Open Textbooks • Spaced Learnin

LUXE-NPOD: new physics searches with an optical dump at LUXE

We propose a novel way to search for feebly interacting massive particles, exploiting two propertiesof systems involving collisions between high energy electrons and intense laser pulses. The firstproperty is that the electron-intense-laser collision results in a large flux of hard photons, as thelaser behaves effectively as a thick medium. The second property is that the emitted photonsfree-stream inside the laser and thus for them the laser behaves effectively as a very thin medium.Combining these two features implies that the electron-intense-laser collision is an apparatus whichcan efficiently convert UV electrons to a large flux of hard, co-linear photons. We further propose todirect this unique large and hard flux of photons onto a physical dump which in turn is capable ofproducing feebly interacting massive particles, in a region of parameters that has never been probedbefore. We denote this novel apparatus as “optical dump” or NPOD (new physics search withoptical dump). The proposed LUXE experiment at Eu.XFEL has all the required basic ingredientsof the above experimental concept. We discuss how this concept can be realized in practice byadding a detector after the last physical dump of the experiment to reconstruct the two-photondecay product of a new spin-0 particle. We show that even with a relatively short dump, the searchcan still be background free. Remarkably, even with a 40TW laser, which corresponds to the initialrun, and definitely with a 350TW laser, of the main run with one year of data taking, LUXE-NPODwill be able to probe uncharted territory of both models of pseudo-scalar and scalar fields, and inparticular probe natural of scalar theories for masses above 100MeV

Advancing technology environments for learning communities

This symposium will examine and envision new possibilities to design next generation technology environments for advancing the study of classroom learning communities as a pedagogical approach. Of the many different kinds of technology environments used in educational research, technology designed for learning communities represents a unique genre in which the environments must support particular epistemic values, modes of learning, and discourse. The talks in this session represent five distinct projects, each focusing on the features of a technological environment and how they support learning communities (e.g., making learners’ ideas salient; representing community knowledge; enabling idea interaction across boundaries; fostering a sense of progress). Across the papers, we identify cross-cutting research priorities and common technological elements that characterize this pivotal research area, with implications for future research and the development of communitysupporting technology

LUXE-NPOD: new physics searches with an optical dump at LUXE

We propose a novel way to search for feebly interacting massive particles, exploiting two propertiesof systems involving collisions between high energy electrons and intense laser pulses. The firstproperty is that the electron-intense-laser collision results in a large flux of hard photons, as thelaser behaves effectively as a thick medium. The second property is that the emitted photonsfree-stream inside the laser and thus for them the laser behaves effectively as a very thin medium.Combining these two features implies that the electron-intense-laser collision is an apparatus whichcan efficiently convert UV electrons to a large flux of hard, co-linear photons. We further propose todirect this unique large and hard flux of photons onto a physical dump which in turn is capable ofproducing feebly interacting massive particles, in a region of parameters that has never been probedbefore. We denote this novel apparatus as “optical dump” or NPOD (new physics search withoptical dump). The proposed LUXE experiment at Eu.XFEL has all the required basic ingredientsof the above experimental concept. We discuss how this concept can be realized in practice byadding a detector after the last physical dump of the experiment to reconstruct the two-photondecay product of a new spin-0 particle. We show that even with a relatively short dump, the searchcan still be background free. Remarkably, even with a 40TW laser, which corresponds to the initialrun, and definitely with a 350TW laser, of the main run with one year of data taking, LUXE-NPODwill be able to probe uncharted territory of both models of pseudo-scalar and scalar fields, and inparticular probe natural of scalar theories for masses above 100MeV

New physics searches with an optical dump at LUXE

We propose a novel way to search for feebly interacting massive particles, exploiting two properties of systems involving collisions between high energy electrons and intense laser pulses. The first property is that the electron-laser collision results in a large flux of hard photons, as the laser behaves effectively as a thick medium. The second property is that the emitted photons free-stream inside the laser and thus for them the laser behaves effectively as a very thin medium. Combining these two features implies that the electron-intense-laser collision is an apparatus, which can efficiently convert O(10  GeV) electrons to a large flux of hard, collinear photons. The photons are directed onto a solid dump in which feebly interacting massive particles may be produced. With the much smaller backgrounds induced by the photon beam compared to those expected in electron- or proton-beam dump experiments and combined with a relatively shorter dump used here, the sensitivity to short lifetimes is unparalleled. We denote this novel apparatus as “optical dump” or NPOD (new physics search with optical dump). The proposed LUXE experiment at the European XFEL has all the basic required ingredients to realize this experimental concept for the first time. Moreover, the NPOD extension of LUXE is essentially parasitic to the main experiment and thus, practically it does not have any bearing on its main program. We discuss how the NPOD concept can be realized in practice by adding a detector after the last physical dump of the experiment to reconstruct the two-photon decay of a new spin-0 particle. We show that even with a relatively short dump, the search can still be background-free. Remarkably, even with a few days of data taking with a 40 TW laser corresponding to its initial run, LUXE-NPOD will be able to probe an uncharted territory of models with pseudoscalars and scalars. Furthermore, with a 350 TW laser of the main run, LUXE-NPOD will have a unique reach for these models. In particular it can probe natural scalar theories for masses above 100 MeV. We note that the new NPOD concept may be ported to other existing or future facilities worldwide, including, e.g., future lepton colliders

Synthesizing CSCL perspectives on the theory, methods, design, and implementation of future learning spaces

This pre-conference workshop brings together a number of leading learning scientists, as well as talented younger researchers, working in an emerging, but fragmented line of research focused on ‘Future Learning Spaces’ (FLSs). Significant advances in this area of scholarship have been made in recent years, spurred by billions of dollars of investments into building or re-designing educational spaces — both physical and digital, formal and informal — to accommodate learning in a networked society. To advance our theoretical understanding on the role of space in learning, vital work remains to be done to frame concepts, synthesize dispersed research agendas and share the results of work that is relevant to the broader FLSs project. To do this, this workshop is organized in four themes that address current challenges and opportunities for FLSs research: Theory, methods, design, and implementation. The workshop includes a combination of invited presenters and key contributors who have advanced research in this area; and active participants, who are interested in deepening their understanding through active participation in the workshop. The objectives of this symposium are to (1) deepen participants’ understandings of current FLSs research; (2) cross-fertilize related threads of inquiry for mutual gain; (3) rise above the individual threads to develop syntheses between them; and (4) build collaborative partnerships for future work.</p

Synthesizing CSCL perspectives on the theory, methods, design, and implementation of future learning spaces

This pre-conference workshop brings together a number of leading learning scientists, as well as talented younger researchers, working in an emerging, but fragmented line of research focused on ‘Future Learning Spaces’ (FLSs). Significant advances in this area of scholarship have been made in recent years, spurred by billions of dollars of investments into building or re-designing educational spaces — both physical and digital, formal and informal — to accommodate learning in a networked society. To advance our theoretical understanding on the role of space in learning, vital work remains to be done to frame concepts, synthesize dispersed research agendas and share the results of work that is relevant to the broader FLSs project. To do this, this workshop is organized in four themes that address current challenges and opportunities for FLSs research: Theory, methods, design, and implementation. The workshop includes a combination of invited presenters and key contributors who have advanced research in this area; and active participants, who are interested in deepening their understanding through active participation in the workshop. The objectives of this symposium are to (1) deepen participants’ understandings of current FLSs research; (2) cross-fertilize related threads of inquiry for mutual gain; (3) rise above the individual threads to develop syntheses between them; and (4) build collaborative partnerships for future work.</p