CI-TEAM Implementation Project: Virtual Tools for Expanding the Cyber Horizon (VTECH)

CI-TEAM实施项目：扩展网络视野的虚拟工具（VTECH）

• 批准号: 0753408
• 负责人: Lauren Cifuentes
• 金额: $ 99.94万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-01 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0753408&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Implementation; Project; Virtual

This project, Virtual Tools for Expanding the Cyber Horizon, or VTECH, aims to prepare a science and engineering workforce to use and protect the nation's cyberinfrastructure. To this end, the proposed project will leverage the NSF-funded Virtual Network Engineering Laboratory (VNEL): Students remotely manipulate equipment and conduct well-defined problem-solving exercises in a controlled, high fidelity environment via the Internet using their web browsers. VNEL enables instruction to be efficiently and effectively distributed across geographic regions, thereby reaching greater numbers of students, including traditionally underrepresented students than would be possible through traditional face-to-face or on-site laboratory instruction. Moreover, this authentic environment has already been shown to reduce costs and increase facility use among university students. The approach for the proposed project is to enhance and deliver instruction using virtual collaboration. The partners for the project are the departments of Education Psychology, Computer Science and the Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies, the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), and Del Mar Community College. The project will combine the technological innovation of the VNEL, the pedagogical expertise of educators, the participation of a representative Hispanic serving community college and the implementation and dissemination experience of TEEX. Project objectives and expected outcomes include the following:1. Train teachers, instructors, students, technical leaders and small business owners in 4 community tier-three colleges in Year 1 and 11 community tier-three colleges in Year 2 to implement and deliver educationally sound and sustainable cyber security and cyberinfrastructure courses to students and small business owners. Of the 15 institutions, three are Historically Black Colleges or Universities (HBCU) and the remaining 12 are Hispanic serving institutions (HSI).2. Provide for continuous improvement of VNEL instruction through implementation cycles of development research, evaluation, and revision.3. Develop and apply novel engineering technologies to support the scalability of the VNEL toward rich and high-fidelity experiential learning for large numbers of students and institutions.4. Enable sustainable offering of VNEL service beyond Year 2 and broaden the scale for national delivery.

该项目名为“扩展网络地平线的虚拟工具”（VTECH），旨在培养一支科学和工程队伍来使用和保护国家的网络基础设施。为此，拟议项目将利用 NSF 资助的虚拟网络工程实验室 (VNEL)：学生使用网络浏览器通过互联网远程操作设备并在受控的高保真环境中进行明确定义的问题解决练习。与传统的面对面或现场实验室教学相比，VNEL 使教学能够高效、有效地分布在各个地理区域，从而覆盖更多的学生，包括传统上代表性不足的学生。此外，这种真实的环境已被证明可以降低成本并增加大学生对设施的使用。拟议项目的方法是使用虚拟协作来增强和提供指导。 该项目的合作伙伴包括教育心理学系、计算机科学系、高级电信和学习技术学院、德克萨斯工程推广服务中心 (TEEX) 和德尔马社区学院。该项目将结合 VNEL 的技术创新、教育工作者的教学专业知识、具有代表性的西班牙裔服务社区学院的参与以及 TEEX 的实施和传播经验。项目目标和预期成果包括以下内容： 1． 在第一年培训 4 所社区三级学院和第二年培训 11 所社区三级学院的教师、讲师、学生、技术领导者和小企业主，为学生和小企业主实施和提供教育上合理且可持续的网络安全和网络基础设施课程。在 15 所院校中，3 所是传统黑人学院或大学 (HBCU)，其余 12 所是西班牙裔服务机构 (HSI)。2。 通过开发研究、评估和修订的实施周期，持续改进 VNEL 教学。3． 开发和应用新颖的工程技术，以支持 VNEL 的可扩展性，为大量学生和机构提供丰富、高保真的体验式学习。4． 实现第 2 年之后可持续提供 VNEL 服务，并扩大全国交付规模。