RE@L: Research Environments Associated with Learning through Social Networks

RE@L：与社交网络学习相关的研究环境

• 批准号: 0726023
• 负责人: Krishna Madhavan
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0726023&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RE; Research; Environments; Associated; Learning

0726023 - Clemson UniversityKrishna MadhavanRE@L: Research Environments Associated with Learning through Social Networks Cyberinfrastructure has revolutionized the world of knowledge production and creation by allowing an increasingly large number of millennial students to participate in this process through extremely easy methods. The project?s vision is to strategically apply middleware technologies in such a way that it provides students at all levels with an unprecedented level of interactivity and access to cyberinfrastructure resources, educational tools, and social support structures. The goal is to utilize middleware tools such that research and education are presented to students within the context of their daily lives, their technology choices, and their lifestyles ? yet in pedagogically sound ways. This will be achieved by integrating current generation of middleware in the context of social networks and by applying middleware technologies for engineering the educational experience.There seems to be a significant divide behind what students today expect of interactive scientific resources for learning and what is provided to them through cyber-environments also known as science gateways. One of the biggest concerns that is raised by the current generation of science gateways is the minimal importance that they place on real-time social, behavioral functions that students as consumers are so used to on a daily basis. Given the exponentially increasing number of wireless, gaming, and interactive commodity services available to consumers and the rapid growth of socially-oriented virtual environments such as Second LifeTM, mySpaceTM, and FacebookTM, the current generation of environments that attempt to bridge discovery and learning seem to lag significantly behind what the millennial students ? and even scientists ? are regularly comfortable with in their daily lives. The potential use of the current generation of middleware technologies within social networks has not been fully understood yet, mostly because middleware has so far been developed mostly from a high performance computing perspective. This project undertakes the comprehensive application and extension of current middleware technologies within the context of social networks. It is proposed to create a virtual organization for education called RE@L within the social network Second LifeTM. RE@L will serve as a prototype to study how compute, data, and other remote resources can be utilized to place learning within environments familiar to students. Cyberinfrastructure itself will be the subject matter of RE@L, students will learn CI using and building CI. We will leverage existing middleware to build a service-oriented architecture to tie in not only compute resources offered by TeraGrid (TG), Open Science Grid (OSG), and the Clemson Campus Grid (running Condor) within the environment, but also link the assessment engine called Samigo, available through the open-source Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment. Furthermore, Second LifeTM offers a robust set of APIs that enable us to expand tools and services easily within its virtual environment. In architecting this integration effort, we utilize results of the NMI award that was made to Goasguen et al. (OCI-0438246), while simultaneously extending it in new directions. Intellectual Merit: The successful completion of this project will demonstrate the application of current middleware technologies within the context of social networks that are not only gaining in popularity, but also are playing a critical role in political and social power. While the results will show that cyberinfrastructure can help us engineer educational environments better, it will demonstrate that work in virtual organizations for education and pedagogy can indeed drive middleware efforts in new directions. This project is for the very first time building appropriate pedagogically focused middleware tools and techniques that will allow us to tailor educational content to specific student learning styles. Broader Impact: This work builds on the philosophy that teaching and learning environments need to leverage cyberinfrastructure more effectively to engineer educational experiences in ways that are more appropriate for the millennial generation. This project could be easily adapted to form the foundation of a cyberinfrastructure-enabled educational strategy that has all the critical ingredients of cutting-edge research at most US institutions of higher education. Moreover, by using a social network that attracts the millennia students, this project has the potential to increase interest and spark new careers in computer science and engineering.

0726023 -克莱姆森UniversityKrishna MadhavanRE@L：与学习相关的研究环境通过社交网络网络基础设施已经彻底改变了知识生产和创造的世界，让越来越多的千禧一代学生通过非常简单的方法参与这一过程。项目？的愿景是战略性地应用中间件技术，为各级学生提供前所未有的交互性和访问网络基础设施资源、教育工具和社会支持结构。我们的目标是利用中间件工具，使研究和教育的背景下，他们的日常生活，他们的技术选择，他们的生活方式？但在教学上是合理的。这将通过在社交网络的背景下集成当前一代的中间件和应用中间件技术来实现工程的教育experience.There似乎是一个显着的鸿沟背后的学生今天期望的交互式科学资源的学习和什么是通过网络环境也被称为科学网关提供给他们。当前这一代科学网关提出的最大问题之一是，他们对学生作为消费者每天都习惯的实时社交和行为功能的重视程度最低。考虑到消费者可获得的无线、游戏和交互式商品服务的数量呈指数级增长，以及面向社交的虚拟环境（如Second LifeTM、mySpaceTM和FacebookTM）的快速增长，试图将发现和学习连接起来的当前一代环境似乎明显落后于千禧一代学生？甚至科学家？在日常生活中经常感到舒适。当前这一代中间件技术在社交网络中的潜在用途尚未得到充分理解，主要是因为到目前为止，中间件主要是从高性能计算的角度开发的。本项目承担了当前中间件技术在社交网络背景下的综合应用和扩展。建议在社交网络Second LifeTM内创建一个名为RE@L的虚拟教育组织。RE@L将作为一个原型，研究如何利用计算、数据和其他远程资源将学习置于学生熟悉的环境中。网络基础设施本身将是RE@L的主题，学生将学习CI使用和构建CI。我们将利用现有的中间件来构建一个面向服务的体系结构，不仅将TeraGrid（TG）、开放科学网格（OSG）和克莱姆森校园网格（运行Condor）提供的计算资源连接到环境中，还将连接名为Samigo的评估引擎，该引擎可通过开源的Sakai协作和学习环境获得。此外，Second LifeTM提供了一套强大的API，使我们能够在其虚拟环境中轻松扩展工具和服务。在架构这种集成工作时，我们利用了Goasguen等人（OCI-0438246）获得的NMI奖的结果，同时将其扩展到新的方向。智力优势：该项目的成功完成将展示当前中间件技术在社交网络中的应用，这些网络不仅越来越受欢迎，而且在政治和社会权力中发挥着关键作用。虽然结果将表明，网络基础设施可以帮助我们更好地设计教育环境，但它将证明，在教育和教学的虚拟组织中工作确实可以推动中间件的工作朝着新的方向发展。这个项目是第一次建立适当的教学重点中间件工具和技术，使我们能够定制教育内容，以特定的学生学习风格。更广泛的影响：这项工作建立在教学和学习环境需要更有效地利用网络基础设施，以更适合千禧一代的方式设计教育体验的理念之上。该项目可以很容易地进行调整，以形成网络基础设施支持的教育战略的基础，该战略具有大多数美国高等教育机构尖端研究的所有关键要素。此外，通过使用吸引千禧年学生的社交网络，该项目有可能增加兴趣并激发计算机科学和工程的新职业。