Workshop for the Future of Discovery, Innovation, and Learning, October 9, 2012, University of Michigan

智力价值：该奖项资助一个研讨会，重点讨论快速发展的信息和通信技术，即网络基础设施对发现、创新和学习活动的影响。发现和学习中的网络基础设施是当前的重大兴趣。已经影响了许多行业的范式转变似乎准备改变高等教育和学术研究环境。研讨会的目标是制定一个议程，说明如何改变什么、如何以及谁参与发现和学习；个性化并扩大对发现和学习的参与；以及加速发现和从发现向创新应用的转变。研讨会的具体目标是：1)探索和阐明关键的研究问题、可能的游戏规则改变者和可能的范式转变；2)制定下一个十年的跨学科研究议程；3)确定在这个快速变化的环境中最能满足国家需求的可能的研究计划、实验和组织结构。更广泛的影响：新的学习和教育模式正在迅速出现，这对利用网络基础设施作为加强知识社区的平台、扩大知识社区的范围和不受时间和距离限制的参与提出了挑战。我们的世界已经进入了一个由知识和创新驱动的快速而深刻的经济、社会和政治变革时期。此次研讨会的重点主要是制定议程，以了解在数字技术日益融合和转变的世界中，社会对劳动力学习和技能、新知识、研究、创新和创造力的快速变化的需求。考虑了人口结构变化、工作场所需求(适应性、无处不在的和终身学习机会)和学习结构(显性、默示和直觉知识)的影响，以及对K-12、高等教育、工作场所和终身学习的学习系统的重新设计。而且，这次研讨会的讨论和成果可能会对追求新的科学有所帮助。

Intellectual Merit:This award funds a workshop that focuses on the impact of rapidly evolving information and communications technology, i.e., cyber-infrastructures, on the activities of discovery, innovation, and learning. Cyber-infrastructure in discovery and learning is of significant current interest. Paradigm shifts that have impacted many industries appear poised to transform higher education and the academic research environment.The goals of the workshop are to set an agenda for how to transform the what, the how, and who participates in discovery and learning; to personalize and broaden participation in discovery and learning; and to accelerate discovery and the transfer from discovery to innovative use. The specific workshop objectives are to: 1) explore and articulate key research questions, likely game-changers, and possible paradigm shifts, 2) frame an interdisciplinary research agenda for the next decade, and 3) identify possible research programs, experiments, and organizational structures that would best meet the needs of the nation in this rapidly changing environment. Broader Impacts:New paradigms are rapidly emerging for learning and education that challenge the use of cyber-infrastructure as a platform for enhancing knowledge communities and for expanding their scope and participation unconstrained by time and distance. Our world has entered a period of rapid and profound economic, social, and political transformation driven by knowledge and innovation. Much of this workshop focus is to set an agenda for understanding the rapidly changing needs of society for workforce learning and skills, new knowledge, research, innovation, and creativity in a world increasingly integrated and transformed by digital technology. The impact of demographic change, workplace needs (adaptive, ubiquitous, and lifelong learning opportunities), and learning structures (explicit, tacit, and intuitive knowledge) are considered as well as redesigns for learning systems at the K-12, higher education, workplace, and lifelong learning. And, the discussion and products of this workshop will likely be useful in the pursuit of new science.