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

CI-TEAM 实施项目：计算科学与工程网络虚拟学校，用于千万级计算教育的协作网络基础设施

• 批准号: 1041313
• 负责人: Erik Hofer
• 金额: $ 87.45万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1041313&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Implementation; Project; Virtual

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.

计算科学与工程虚拟学院(VSCSE)是一个全国性的计算科学和工程研究与教育项目，旨在培训研究生和博士后研究人员使用尖端网络基础设施资源的研究技术。该项目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。针对这一需求，密歇根大学和伊利诺伊大学正在实施虚拟计算科学和工程网络学院，这是一个协作网络基础设施，为VSCSE提供以研究为基础的社会技术系统，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的在线社区和开放的教育资源库，以及一个协调中心，为网络运营和外联提供工作人员支持。这个项目正在创建一套？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，围绕每年一度的暑期学校课程组织。每一次迭代都致力于开发新的能力，以增强网络S支持高度分布式、交互、开放和社区驱动的教育的能力，扩大VSCSE的广度、深度和开放性。这种协作网络基础设施促进了对整整一代计算科学家和工程师的教育和培训，他们能够利用21世纪网络基础设施带来的拍级计算能力进行科学发现和工程创新。该项目通过为当代和后代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，为教职员工、学生、从业者和机构提供可持续的千万亿级培训和教育模式，从而扩大了VSCSE的覆盖范围。基础设施的要素包括：向分布在不同地区的大量受众提供同步和异步内容的经过研究和教学有效的方法；处理学生注册的机制；将现场内容转化为在线自定进度教程的教学有效技术；支持在预定活动期间和之后学习的在线辅导网络；可搜索的同行评审式培训和教育材料储存库；以及一个更大、更多样化的专家人际网络，以参与未来的工作。学术价值：这项建议建立在VSCSE在2008至2010年间建立的成功基础之上，该基础旨在通过应用创新和身临其境的协作技术，在全国范围内加速采用现场PB级培训，以同时接触到全国多个地点的研究生和博士后。将现场活动产生的材料转变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教育资源。该网络正在支持关于千万亿级计算主题的综合研究和教育，其中包括实际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、更多样化的一代科学家、技术人员、工程师和数学家，以推动科学发现，VSCSE网络正在将全国各地机构的学生、教师和研究人员联系起来，包括一流的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储存库，可在各种教育环境中采用和使用，并将为新的学者和学生与现有专家配对提供一个导师网络。VSCSE还计划与国际组织合作，在材料中提供更多深度的内容，并促进国际研究和教育合作。