CI-TEAM Implementation Project: The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering Network, a collaboration cyberinfrastructure for petascale computing education

CI-TEAM 实施项目：计算科学与工程网络虚拟学校，用于千万级计算教育的协作网络基础设施

• 批准号: 1041313
• 负责人: Erik Hofer
• 金额: $ 87.45万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 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: 2010-09-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1041313&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Implementation; Project; Virtual

The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) is a national-scale computational science and engineering research and education program that trains graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in research techniques for using leading-edge cyberinfrastructure resources. This program has in the past been challenged to keep up with increasing demand and faces an acute need for a collaboration cyberinfrastructure to support its growing portfolio of courses and community of students. In response to this need, the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois is implementing the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering Network, a collaboration cyberinfrastructure to provide the VSCSE with research-based socio-technical systems for conducting synchronous and asynchronous learning through integrated research and education. The VSCSE Network consists of a synchronous instruction environment called the Virtual Classroom, a HubZero-based online community and open educational resources repository and a Coordinating Center to provide staff support for network operations and outreach. This project is creating a set of ?Virtual Classrooms in a Box? to facilitate widespread adoption of the cyberinfrastructure. The VSCSE Network is being implemented iteratively, organized around annual Summer School courses. Each iteration features work to develop new capabilities to enhance the Network?s ability to support highly distributed, interactive, open and community-driven education, expanding the breadth, depth and openness of the VSCSE. This collaboration cyberinfrastructure facilitates the education and training of an entire generation of computational scientists and engineers able to exploit petascale computational power for scientific discovery and engineering innovation, enabled by 21st century cyberinfrastructure. This project is extending the reach of the VSCSE by providing sustainable models for petascale training and education among faculty, students, practitioners, and institutions by developing the necessary infrastructure, processes, and mechanisms for current and future generations and by rigorously evaluating and assessing this work. The elements of the infrastructure includes research-proven, pedagogically effective methods for delivering synchronous and asynchronous content to large, geographically-distributed audiences, mechanisms for handling student registrations, pedagogically effective techniques for transforming live content into on-line self-paced tutorials, on-line mentoring networks to support learning during and after scheduled events, searchable peer reviewed repository of petascale training and education materials, and a larger, more diverse human network of experts to engage in future efforts. Intellectual Merit: This proposal is building on the successful foundations established by the VSCSE between 2008 and 2010 to accelerate national adoption of live petascale training to reach graduate and postdoctoral students at multiple sites across the country simultaneously by applying innovative and immersive collaboration technologies. Transforming the materials produced from live events into stand-alone, on-line, learning materials to support self-paced learning requires the creation of new, pedagogically-based techniques for packaging open education resources. The Network is supporting integrated research and education on petascale computing topics that include the hands on use of leading cyberinfrastructure resources, such as TeraGrid and Track 1 Petascale systems. Broader Impacts: To prepare significantly larger and more diverse generations of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians to advance scientific discovery, the VSCSE Network is connecting students, faculty, and researchers at institutions across the country including top-tier research universities and institutions that serve historically underrepresented individuals. The VSCSE Network will create a rich repository of open educational resources that can be adopted and used in a wide variety of educational settings and will provide a mentorship network for matching new scholars and students with established experts. The VSCSE also plans to work with international organizations to provide additional depth of content in the materials and to advance international research and education collaborations.

虚拟计算科学与工程学院（VSCSE）是一项国家规模的计算科学与工程研究与教育计划，该计划培训研究生和博士后研究人员研究技术，用于使用领先的网络基础设施资源。过去，该计划受到了挑战，要跟上需求不断增长，并且面临着对网络基础设施的急需，以支持其不断增长的课程和学生社区的投资组合。为了应对这一需求，密歇根大学和伊利诺伊大学正在实施虚拟的计算科学与工程网络学院，这是一种合作的网络基础设施，旨在通过集成研究和教育为基于研究的社会技术系统提供基于研究的社会技术系统。 VSCSE网络由称为虚拟教室的同步教学环境，一个基于Hubzero的在线社区和开放的教育资源存储库以及一个协调中心，以为网络运营和外展提供员工支持。这个项目在盒子里创建了一组虚拟教室吗？促进广泛采用网络基础设施。 VSCSE网络正在迭代实施，围绕年度暑期学校课程组织。每次迭代都均具有开发新功能的工作，以增强网络支持高度分布，交互式，开放和社区驱动的教育，从而扩大VSCSE的广度，深度和开放性。这种协作的网络基础设施促进了整个计算科学家和工程师的教育和培训，能够利用Petascale计算能力进行科学发现和工程创新，并由21世纪的Cyber​​infrastrupture启用。该项目通过为教师，学生，从业人员和机构提供可持续的培训和教育模型来扩展VSCSE的影响力，并通过开发当前和后代的必要基础设施，流程和机制，并严格评估和评估这项工作。 The elements of the infrastructure includes research-proven, pedagogically effective methods for delivering synchronous and asynchronous content to large, geographically-distributed audiences, mechanisms for handling student registrations, pedagogically effective techniques for transforming live content into on-line self-paced tutorials, on-line mentoring networks to support learning during and after scheduled events, searchable peer reviewed repository of Petascale培训和教育材料，以及更大，更多样化的专家网络，以从事未来的努力。知识分子的优点：该提案是建立在2008年至2010年之间VSCSE在2008年至2010年间建立的成功基础的基础上的，以加快全国范围内的佩斯卡尔实时培训，以同时应用创新和沉浸式合作技术，以同时应用全国多个地点的毕业生和博士后学生。将实时事件产生的材料转变为独立的，在线学习材料以支持自定进度学习的材料需要创建新的，教学上的基于教学的技术，以包装开放的教育资源。该网络正在支持有关佩斯卡尔计算主题的综合研究和教育，其中包括使用领先的网络基础设施资源（例如Teragrid和Track 1 Petascale Systems）。更广泛的影响：为了准备更大，更多样化的科学家，技术人员，工程师和数学家，以推进科学发现，VSCSE网络正在将全国各地机构的学生，教职员工和研究人员联系起来，包括顶级研究大学以及为历史上代表性不足的个人提供服务的机构。 VSCSE网络将创建一个丰富的开放教育资源存储库，可以在各种教育环境中采用和使用，并将为将新学者和学生与既定专家匹配的指导网络提供。 VSCSE还计划与国际组织合作，以提供材料中的更多内容，并推进国际研究和教育合作。