CI-TEAM Implementation Project: Collaborative Research: Advancing Cyberinfrastructure-based Science through Education, Training and Mentoring of Science Communities

该项目开发了一个动员一组分散的跨学科科学家进入实践社区的过程，该社区能够有效地将技术增强的方法嵌入他们的工作中，并调查了实现合作研究设计的方法。该项目采用了教育，培训和指导任务的组合，通过创造性思维和解决问题的理论，社会科学和组织学习理论。该项目正在与一组科学家一起进行，这些科学家从事预测气候，人口和土地覆盖/土地利用变化对美国西南部植物分布的影响，并调查这些变化对人类和环境的影响。有三个学术研究小组，分别来自新墨西哥州大学、亚利桑那大学和北方亚利桑那大学。每个小组都从不同的角度来处理这个问题。包括实地研究、遥感变化探测、模拟建模、公众参与和决策。他们将共同开发整合各自优势的方法。该项目将使科学家与技术和网络基础设施专家合作，并利用我们对社区学习和合作的最佳理解，共同发现克服这些障碍的有效方法。该项目通过五项活动来实现其目标：1）使用视频会议技术的虚拟研讨会，2）研究生指导，3）协作设计练习，4）相关技术培训，以及5）虚拟合作实验室的开发。所有活动都通过实践社区在解决真实的问题的背景下进行基于问题的经验学习，将研究与教育结合起来。

This project develops a process for mobilizing a group of distributed, interdisciplinary scientists into a community of practice that is able to effectively embed technology-enhanced approaches into their work, and investigates methods for enabling collaborative research design. The project uses a combination of education, training, and mentoring tasks informed by creative thinking and problem-solving theory, social science, and organizational learning theory. The project is being conducted with a group of scientists engaged in forecasting the impact of climate, population, and land cover/land use change on plant distributions in the American Southwest, and investigating human and environmental consequences of those changes. There are three academic research groups represented from University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University. Each group is approaching the problem from different perspectives ? including field studies, remotely sensed change detection, simulation modeling, public participation and decision-making. Collectively they will develop approaches that integrate the strengths of each. This project will partner the scientists with technology and cyberinfrastructure specialists and make use of our best understanding of community learning and collaboration to collectively discover effective ways to overcome these barriers. The project uses five activities to accomplish its goals: 1) virtual seminars using videoconference technology, 2) graduate student mentoring, 3) collaborative design exercises, 4) training on relevant technologies, and 5) development of a virtual collaboratory. All activities integrate research with education through problem-based, experiential learning by a community of practice in the context of real problem solving.