Collaborative Research: HumIT: Student IT Services to Support Open Source Software for Humanity

合作研究：HumIT：支持人类开源软件的学生 IT 服务

• 批准号: 0940925
• 负责人: Gregory Hislop
• 金额: $ 3.62万
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0940925&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; HumIT; Student; Services

Software Engineering (34)HumIT is exploring ways that students can provide information technology (IT) infrastructure services for humanitarian open source software (OSS). HumIT is giving students rich and engaging educational experiences while increasing the social benefit of humanitarian OSS. Open source software is developed collaboratively and provided free to anyone who wants it. Humanitarian OSS applies IT to humanitarian needs in areas such as health care, economic development, and education. But the potential of OSS is limited by the need for IT support. Given that the developers of humanitarian OSS are often volunteers, providing good support is a difficult problem. Students in computing degree programs are an untapped resource that can help address this problem while also advancing the students' own education. HumIT is creating a new type of practicum in IT education. This approach can improve student learning by directly engaging students with IT issues of large-scale application systems. In addition, HumIT is giving students a first-hand experience in using computing to have a positive impact on society, which may broaden the appeal of IT careers to women. The HumIT approach can be extended across many institutions due to the distributed nature of open source projects and the scope of humanitarian IT needs. Finally, HumIT is creating direct benefit to society by advancing humanitarian OSS while producing more professionally-capable computing graduates.

软件工程 (34)HumIT 正在探索学生为人道主义开源软件 (OSS) 提供信息技术 (IT) 基础设施服务的方法。 HumIT 为学生提供丰富且引人入胜的教育体验，同时增加人道主义 OSS 的社会效益。 开源软件是协作开发的，并免费提供给任何需要它的人。 人道主义 OSS 将 IT 应用于医疗保健、经济发展和教育等领域的人道主义需求。但 OSS 的潜力受到 IT 支持需求的限制。鉴于人道主义 OSS 的开发者往往是志愿者，提供良好的支持是一个难题。计算机学位课程的学生是一种尚未开发的资源，可以帮助解决这个问题，同时也可以促进学生自身的教育。 HumIT 正在创建一种新型的 IT 教育实习。 这种方法可以通过直接让学生参与大型应用系统的 IT 问题来改善学生的学习。 此外，HumIT 还为学生提供使用计算机对社会产生积极影响的第一手经验，这可能会扩大 IT 职业对女性的吸引力。 由于开源项目的分布式性质和人道主义 IT 需求的范围，HumIT 方法可以扩展到许多机构。 最后，HumIT 通过推进人道主义 OSS，同时培养更多具有专业能力的计算机毕业生，为社会创造直接利益。