Collaborative Research: CI-Team Diff: The Virtual Learning Commons: STEM Research Communities Learning about Data Management, Geospatial Informatics, and Scientific Visualization

协作研究：CI-Team Diff：虚拟学习共享空间：STEM 研究社区学习数据管理、地理空间信息学和科学可视化

• 批准号: 1135525
• 负责人: Deana Pennington
• 金额: $ 83.43万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1135525&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CI; Team; Diff

The expected national transformation of 21st Century science through cyberinfrastructure (CI) depends on adoption of new CI approaches across many science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) domains. For STEM faculty and researchers who are unfamiliar with CI but are otherwise well prepared, the learning curve to adopt new technology is steep and tools are immature and difficult to use. Key issues are the need for 1) effective processes and mechanisms by which STEM professionals can learn to integrate CI into their work, and 2) development of empirically based theories about the diffusion of CI innovation in research settings so that effective processes and mechanisms can be designed and enacted. This project is developing a synergistic environment that will enable the STEM research community, including graduate students, faculty, and researchers, to engage in life-long, life-wide learning about emerging CI.The goals of the project are to: create a virtual learning environment focused on techniques for data and information acquisition, management, curation, analysis, visualization, provenance, and discovery; engage local, regional, national and international STEM research and education communities in face-to-face and virtual settings; and continue to develop and extend our understanding, theories, concepts, and models of technology adoption and diffusion of CI innovation in interdisciplinary research settings. The project uses four activities to accomplish its goals: 1) collaborative development of a Virtual Learning Commons (VLC); 2) virtual workshops using videoconference technology and the VLC, 3) face-to-face working meetings, and 4) postdoctoral researcher and graduate student mentoring. All activities integrate research with education through problem-based, experiential learning by communities of practice in the context of real problem solving.Intellectual Merit. This project will contribute new knowledge about virtual, collaborative learning about CI and through CI, developing a new, CI-enabled learning system. It will generate new communities of CI-enabled professional STEM researchers, in particular those working in the areas of data management, geospatial informatics, and visualization. It will generate new understanding of diffusion of existing and emerging CI innovations in the global STEM research community and new models of interdisciplinary, distributed collaboration between CI researchers and STEM researchers at all professional levels - graduate student to highly experienced. The project will provide a better understanding of interactions between virtual learning environments, communities of practice, and life-long, life-wide learning by researchers.The project involves an experienced team of CI researchers from the University of Texas atEl Paso (UTEP), University of Kansas (KU), and University of New Mexico (UNM) who are partnering with research communities in science and engineering education, geo-epidemiology, and information management at UNM, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and the National and International Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. The project builds on models of collaborative learning generated from our previous CI-Team Demonstration and Implementation Projects to accomplish the objectives.Broader Impacts. This project will have broad impacts within multiple STEM communities traditionally underrepresented in high-end scientific computing, as well as involving underrepresented minorities at two Hispanic Serving Institutions. The project will ensure that Hispanic students in STEM disciplines at UTEP receive the knowledge and skills that enable them to become leaders in CI-enabled STEM research, through mentoring Science and Engineering Educators at UTEP as they learn about and use CI within the VLC -- educating the educators. The project provides a model for moving communities to CI-based approaches that can be replicated in any STEM community. It will generate resources for the broad STEM research community to learn about data management - now a requirement for all NSF programs. It will also generate a new virtual space within which an emerging community of practice engaged in CI Workforce Development may begin to share resources and collaborate.

21世纪科学通过网络基础设施(CI)实现国家变革的预期取决于在许多科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域采用新的CI方法。对于不熟悉CI但在其他方面准备充分的STEM教职员工和研究人员来说，采用新技术的学习曲线是陡峭的，工具不成熟且难以使用。关键问题是需要1)有效的流程和机制，使STEM专业人员能够学习将CI融入他们的工作，以及2)发展基于经验的关于CI创新在研究环境中扩散的理论，以便能够设计和实施有效的流程和机制。这个项目正在开发一个协同环境，使STEM研究界，包括研究生、教职员工和研究人员，参与关于新兴CI的终身、全方位的学习。该项目的目标是：创建一个虚拟学习环境，侧重于数据和信息获取、管理、管理、分析、可视化、出处和发现的技术；让地方、地区、国家和国际STEM研究和教育界在面对面和虚拟环境中参与；并继续发展和扩展我们对跨学科研究环境中CI创新的技术采用和传播的理解、理论、概念和模式。该项目使用四项活动来实现其目标：1)合作开发虚拟学习共享空间(VLC)；2)使用视频会议技术和虚拟学习共享空间举办虚拟研讨会；3)面对面的工作会议；4)博士后研究人员和研究生指导。所有活动都是在实际解决问题的背景下，通过实践社区以问题为基础的体验式学习，将研究与教育相结合。这个项目将提供有关虚拟协作学习的新知识，关于CI和通过CI，开发一种新的、启用CI的学习系统。它将产生新的传播与信息支持的STEM专业研究人员社区，特别是那些在数据管理、地理空间信息学和可视化领域工作的人。它将产生对现有和新兴的CI创新在全球STEM研究界的传播的新理解，以及CI研究人员和STEM研究人员(从研究生到经验丰富的所有专业水平)之间跨学科、分布式协作的新模式。该项目将使研究人员更好地了解虚拟学习环境、实践社区和终身终身学习之间的互动。该项目涉及来自德克萨斯大学帕索分校(UTEP)、堪萨斯大学(KU)和新墨西哥大学(UNM)的经验丰富的CI研究人员团队，他们与UNM、洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室(LANL)和国家和国际长期生态研究(LTER)网络的科学和工程教育、地球流行病学和信息管理方面的研究社区合作。该项目建立在我们之前的CI团队演示和实施项目中生成的协作学习模型，以实现这些目标。该项目将在传统上在高端科学计算方面代表性不足的多个STEM社区产生广泛影响，并使两个西班牙裔服务机构的代表性不足的少数族裔参与进来。该项目将确保UTEP STEM学科的拉美裔学生获得知识和技能，使他们能够成为支持CI的STEM研究的领导者，方法是指导UTEP的科学和工程教育工作者，使他们了解和使用VLC中的CI-教育工作者。该项目提供了一种将社区转移到基于CI的方法的模式，可以在任何STEM社区中复制。它将为广泛的STEM研究社区提供资源，让他们了解数据管理--现在这是所有NSF项目的要求。它还将创造一个新的虚拟空间，在这个空间内，参与信息技术劳动力发展的新兴实践社区可以开始共享资源和合作。