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

该项目开发了一个流程，将一群分散的跨学科科学家动员到一个实践社区中，能够有效地将技术增强的方法嵌入到他们的工作中，并研究实现协作研究设计的方法。该项目结合了教育、培训和指导任务，以创造性思维和问题解决理论、社会科学和组织学习理论为基础。该项目由一组科学家共同开展，他们致力于预测气候、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。共有三个学术研究小组，分别来自新墨西哥大学、亚利桑那大学和北亚利桑那大学。每个小组都从不同的角度处理问题？包括实地研究、遥感变化检测、模拟建模、公众参与和决策。他们将共同开发出整合各自优势的方法。该项目将与科学家以及技术和网络基础设施专家合作，利用我们对社区学习和协作的最佳理解，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实际问题的背景下进行基于问题的体验式学习，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.