Interactions in Understanding the Universe (I2U2)

I2U2：理解宇宙的互动支持并加强了美国大学和实验室的科学实验教育和推广活动，提供了一个框架，在这个框架上可以开发出丰富的连贯的、协作的在线科学教育实验室。它维持了一个“教育虚拟组织”，支持参与的教师、学生和实验室内容开发人员，是一个可持续的项目，以提高K-12科学教育的成果。科学家、计算机科学家和教育工作者的I2U2合作直接解决了发展和维持科学劳动力的紧迫国家优先事项，并促进了公众对我们国家科学计划的复杂合作的赞赏和支持。I2U2为各种学科开发和维护一个虚拟的在线教育实验室组合，并提供工具和支持服务，以帮助开发人员创建这些教育资源。这些实验室通过使用国家电网网络基础设施进行教育，开辟了新的领域，就像科学越来越多地使用网格一样。这项拨款提供资源，以完成对试点“电子实验室”的评估和改进，并支持开发原型在线实验室和正规和非正规教育资源。这些在线实验室的教育内容利用了一系列nsf资助的研究项目的科学，从物理学开始，但远远超出了物理学。

I2U2: Interactions in Understanding the Universe supports and strengthens the education and outreach activities of scientific experiments at U.S. universities and laboratories by providing the framework on which a rich portfolio of coherent, collaborative online science education laboratories can be developed. It maintains an "educational virtual organization" that supports participating teachers, students, and laboratory content developers, and is a sustainable program to enhance the outcome of K-12 science education. The I2U2 collaboration of scientists, computer scientists and educators directly addresses the urgent national priority to grow and sustain the scientific workforce, and to promote the public's appreciation of and support for the complex collaborations of our national scientific programs. I2U2 develops and maintains a virtual online portfolio of educational laboratories for a diverse range of disciplines and provides tools and support services to assist developers in creating these educational resources. These laboratories break new ground by using the national Grid cyberinfrastructure for education in the same way that science increasingly uses the Grid. This grant provides resources to complete evaluation and enhancement of a pilot "e-Lab", and to support the development of prototype online labs and resources for formal and informal education. The educational content of these online labs leverages the science of a range of NSF-funded research projects, beginning with but reaching far beyond physics.