CI-TEAM Implementation Project: The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering Network, a collaboration cyberinfrastructure for petascale computing education

计算科学与工程虚拟学院（VSCSE）是一个国家级的计算科学与工程研究和教育计划，旨在培养研究生和博士后研究人员使用领先的网络基础设施资源的研究技术。该计划在过去一直面临着跟上不断增长的需求的挑战，并面临着对协作网络基础设施的迫切需求，以支持其不断增长的课程组合和学生社区。为了满足这一需求，密歇根大学和伊利诺伊大学正在实施计算科学与工程网络虚拟学校，这是一个协作网络基础设施，为VSCSE提供基于研究的社会技术系统，通过综合研究和教育进行同步和异步学习。VSCSE网络包括一个称为虚拟教室的同步教学环境，一个基于HubZero的在线社区和开放式教育资源库以及一个协调中心，为网络运营和推广提供工作人员支持。这个项目是建立一套？盒子里的虚拟教室？以促进网络基础设施的广泛采用。 VSCSE网络正在反复实施，围绕年度暑期学校课程组织。每一次迭代功能的工作，以发展新的能力，以加强网络？的能力，以支持高度分布，互动，开放和社区驱动的教育，扩大广度，深度和开放的VSCSE。这种协作网络基础设施促进了整整一代计算科学家和工程师的教育和培训，这些科学家和工程师能够利用千万亿次计算能力进行科学发现和工程创新，这是由21世纪世纪网络基础设施实现的。该项目通过为教师，学生，从业人员和机构提供可持续的千万亿次培训和教育模式，为当前和未来几代人开发必要的基础设施，流程和机制，并通过严格评估和评估这项工作，扩大了VSCSE的范围。基础设施的要素包括经研究证明的、教学上有效的方法，用于向大量地理分布的受众提供同步和异步内容，处理学生注册的机制，将实时内容转换为在线自定进度教程的教学上有效的技术，支持在预定活动期间和之后学习的在线辅导网络，一个可搜索的、经同行审查的千万亿次培训和教育材料库，以及一个更大、更多样化的专家人力网络，以参与未来的工作。智力优势：该提案建立在VSCSE在2008年至2010年期间建立的成功基础之上，旨在通过应用创新和沉浸式协作技术，加速全国采用现场千万亿次培训，同时在全国多个地点接触研究生和博士后学生。将现场活动制作的材料转化为独立的在线学习材料，以支持自定进度的学习，需要创造新的基于教学的技术来包装开放式教育资源。该网络正在支持千万亿次计算主题的综合研究和教育，其中包括使用领先的网络基础设施资源，如TeraGrid和Track 1 Petascale系统。更广泛的影响：为了培养更多、更多样化的科学家、技术人员、工程师和数学家来推进科学发现，VSCSE网络正在连接全国各地机构的学生、教师和研究人员，包括顶级研究型大学和服务于历史上代表性不足的个人的机构。VSCSE网络将创建一个丰富的开放教育资源库，可在各种教育环境中采用和使用，并将提供一个导师网络，为新学者和学生与知名专家牵线搭桥。VSCSE还计划与国际组织合作，在材料中提供更深入的内容，并推进国际研究和教育合作。

The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) is a national-scale computational science and engineering research and education program that trains graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in research techniques for using leading-edge cyberinfrastructure resources. This program has in the past been challenged to keep up with increasing demand and faces an acute need for a collaboration cyberinfrastructure to support its growing portfolio of courses and community of students. In response to this need, the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois is implementing the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering Network, a collaboration cyberinfrastructure to provide the VSCSE with research-based socio-technical systems for conducting synchronous and asynchronous learning through integrated research and education. The VSCSE Network consists of a synchronous instruction environment called the Virtual Classroom, a HubZero-based online community and open educational resources repository and a Coordinating Center to provide staff support for network operations and outreach. This project is creating a set of ?Virtual Classrooms in a Box? to facilitate widespread adoption of the cyberinfrastructure. The VSCSE Network is being implemented iteratively, organized around annual Summer School courses. Each iteration features work to develop new capabilities to enhance the Network?s ability to support highly distributed, interactive, open and community-driven education, expanding the breadth, depth and openness of the VSCSE. This collaboration cyberinfrastructure facilitates the education and training of an entire generation of computational scientists and engineers able to exploit petascale computational power for scientific discovery and engineering innovation, enabled by 21st century cyberinfrastructure. This project is extending the reach of the VSCSE by providing sustainable models for petascale training and education among faculty, students, practitioners, and institutions by developing the necessary infrastructure, processes, and mechanisms for current and future generations and by rigorously evaluating and assessing this work. The elements of the infrastructure includes research-proven, pedagogically effective methods for delivering synchronous and asynchronous content to large, geographically-distributed audiences, mechanisms for handling student registrations, pedagogically effective techniques for transforming live content into on-line self-paced tutorials, on-line mentoring networks to support learning during and after scheduled events, searchable peer reviewed repository of petascale training and education materials, and a larger, more diverse human network of experts to engage in future efforts. Intellectual Merit: This proposal is building on the successful foundations established by the VSCSE between 2008 and 2010 to accelerate national adoption of live petascale training to reach graduate and postdoctoral students at multiple sites across the country simultaneously by applying innovative and immersive collaboration technologies. Transforming the materials produced from live events into stand-alone, on-line, learning materials to support self-paced learning requires the creation of new, pedagogically-based techniques for packaging open education resources. The Network is supporting integrated research and education on petascale computing topics that include the hands on use of leading cyberinfrastructure resources, such as TeraGrid and Track 1 Petascale systems. Broader Impacts: To prepare significantly larger and more diverse generations of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians to advance scientific discovery, the VSCSE Network is connecting students, faculty, and researchers at institutions across the country including top-tier research universities and institutions that serve historically underrepresented individuals. The VSCSE Network will create a rich repository of open educational resources that can be adopted and used in a wide variety of educational settings and will provide a mentorship network for matching new scholars and students with established experts. The VSCSE also plans to work with international organizations to provide additional depth of content in the materials and to advance international research and education collaborations.