CI-TEAM Implementation Project: Native American Regional IT Industry Workforce Development Project (NA-CIT)

CI-TEAM 实施项目：美洲原住民地区 IT 行业劳动力发展项目 (NA-CIT)

• 批准号: 1041410
• 负责人: Richard Mosholder
• 金额: $ 87.39万
• 依托单位: Utah Valley University
• 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: 2010-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1041410&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; TEAM; Implementation; Project; Native

Native American tribal governments and public educators in UT, AZ and NM have developed a new creative and accelerated means to propel forward a broad spectrum of much-needed Information Technology (IT) education and training. Their goal is to benefit adult citizenry and K-16 student populations to meet escalating college preparatory and regional/tribal workforce demands for 21st century digital job-ready IT skills. Utah Valley University (UVU), led by a team of experienced student success researchers, mentors and Native American K-12 educational specialists, have joined with global IT industry certification and training leaders to create an innovative, research-based cyber learning environment capable of realistically meeting the specific educational challenges faced by the traditionally underserved Native American communities and individuals with a 2 year integrated research and leaning project. The Native American Regional IT Industry Workforce Development Project (NA-CIT) builds upon best practices and lessons learned from a previous 2008-10 CI-TEAM demonstration project in order to accomplish its major objectives. This multi-state program, managed across institutions and a broad range of IT disciplines, deploys a synergized, culturally-relevant online delivery (Web 2.0) methodology coupled with stringent process assessment and mentored support mechanisms to maximize participant learning\success rates and outcomes. A classroom and CI (hardware/software) were previously in place at the three primary training hubs: Central/Southeast Utah, Holbrook, AZ and Window Rock/Ft. Defiance on the Navajo Nation. Accomplishment of the objectives of this project portends to have far- reaching effect toward making cyber-technology more accessible to the Native American youth and young adults (age 12-50) and in opening doors for them to contribute directly to society as scientists, engineers, educators, and community leaders. NA-CIT is training between 400-500 participants over a 24 month project period. The proposed demonstration project is: (1) Organizing and implementing a synergistic CI enabled instructional delivery support system (high-tech) with local counselors, mentors and teachers (high-touch) and students at 3 regional locations both via the internet and within technology-assisted classroom, teacher-led and peer-mentor supported environments, and (2) Assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of the above described synergistic approach in bringing the participants to a high level average validated competency within a broad spectrum of workplace ready skill-sets (from basic computer fundamentals to higher orders of competency in web-design, network administration/support and programming e.g. - MS.Net and Linux.Net). All programs are implemented with a view to extending a similar approach to possible future full degree level programs in the IT field, and to making this comprehensive learning system scalable and replicable to other Indigenous educational environments. Broader Impacts: This implementation project will provide a model for the scientific, engineering, and technology education of many indigenous, rural, and other minority populations throughout the world that do not have easy access to learning in these fields. Because all of the instruction and proposed coursework has a sound integrated design, a positive experience with this select population will have broad implications for similarly deployed online and/or mentored classroom IT educational environments. The probability of the success of this project is enhanced by the groundwork and physical cyber-infrastructure work that is already in place and by the cooperative efforts with companies and educational experts who have already accomplished a great deal in the technical education of the students within this demographic. Intellectual Merit: The intellectual merit of this project is not so much in the development of the individual components as it is in the combining of all the components to provide an immersive learning environment with learning activities, student tracking, hands-on mentoring and assessment practices that will engages and motivates the students in the course to reach a high level of competency in the subject matter area at the completion of the coursework. The infusion of CI-enabled environments and curricula with strategies based on a Native American philosophical and cosmological paradigm that influences the way Native Americans think and learn is based on current educational research and adds to the complexity and merit of the project.

德克萨斯大学、亚利桑那州和新墨西哥州的印第安部落政府和公共教育工作者开发了一种新的创造性和加速的方法，以推动广泛的急需的信息技术（IT）教育和培训。他们的目标是使成年公民和K-16学生群体受益，以满足不断升级的大学预科和地区/部落劳动力对21世纪数字就业IT技能的需求。犹他谷大学（UVU）由经验丰富的学生成功研究人员、导师和美国本土K-12教育专家组成的团队领导，与全球IT行业认证和培训领导者一起，通过为期两年的综合研究和学习项目，创建了一个创新的、基于研究的网络学习环境，能够切实满足传统上服务不足的美国本土社区和个人所面临的具体教育挑战。美洲土著地区IT产业劳动力发展项目（NA-CIT）建立在从以前的2008-10 CI-TEAM演示项目中获得的最佳实践和经验教训的基础上，以实现其主要目标。这个跨机构和广泛的IT学科管理的多州项目，部署了协同的、与文化相关的在线交付（Web 2.0）方法，加上严格的过程评估和指导支持机制，以最大限度地提高参与者的学习成功率和成果。教室和CI（硬件/软件）之前在三个主要培训中心就位：犹他州中部/东南部，亚利桑那州霍尔布鲁克和窗口岩石/Ft。对纳瓦霍民族的反抗。这个项目的目标的实现预示着将会产生深远的影响，使网络技术更容易被美国土著青年和年轻人（12-50岁）所接受，并为他们作为科学家、工程师、教育者和社区领袖直接为社会做出贡献打开大门。NA-CIT将在24个月的项目期间培训400-500名参与者。拟建示范项目为：(1)通过互联网和在技术辅助的教室、教师主导和同伴导师支持的环境中，与当地辅导员、导师和教师（高接触）以及3个地区的学生组织和实施协同CI支持的教学交付支持系统（高科技）；(2)评估和评估上述协同方法的有效性，以使参与者在广泛的工作场所准备技能集（从基本的计算机基础到网页设计，网络管理/支持和编程的高级能力，例如MS.Net和Linux.Net）中达到高水平的平均验证能力。所有课程的实施都是为了将类似的方法扩展到未来IT领域的完整学位课程中，并使这一综合学习系统可扩展并可复制到其他土著教育环境中。更广泛的影响：该实施项目将为世界各地许多土著、农村和其他少数民族人口的科学、工程和技术教育提供一个模式，这些人口在这些领域不容易获得学习。因为所有的教学和建议的课程作业都有一个完善的集成设计，与这些选定人群的积极体验将对类似地部署在线和/或指导课堂IT教育环境具有广泛的影响。该项目成功的可能性通过已经到位的基础和物理网络基础设施工作，以及与公司和教育专家的合作努力而得到提高，这些公司和教育专家已经在这一人口统计范围内的学生的技术教育方面取得了很大成就。智力价值：这个项目的智力价值不在于单个组件的开发，而在于将所有组件结合在一起，提供一个沉浸式的学习环境，包括学习活动、学生跟踪、实践指导和评估实践，这些将吸引和激励学生在课程完成时达到主题领域的高水平能力。在当前的教育研究基础上，将基于ci的环境和课程与影响印第安人思考和学习方式的印第安人哲学和宇宙学范式相结合，增加了项目的复杂性和价值。