Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: CIU: Hour of Cyberinfrastructure: Developing Cyber Literacy for Geographic Information Science

网络基础设施为美国日益增长的知识经济赋能，并通过提供强大的计算资源来支持数据分析和建模，在国防、国土安全、农业和商业领域发挥作用。然而，许多科学学科目前面临着如何将网络基础设施培训无缝整合到他们的教育计划中的问题。因此，这些学科的学生和研究人员往往缺乏使用最先进的工具和技术来应对他们正在接受培训进行调查的关键全球挑战的经验。该项目通过为教育工作者创建一个明确的课程模式来解决这一具有挑战性的问题——网络基础设施一小时（CI一小时）——将网络基础设施技能建设整合到特定领域的课程中，并为学生提供一个明确的学习目标：尝试一小时的网络基础设施。本项目中基于地理空间的课程借鉴了社会科学、环境科学和地球科学的现实问题，使其对许多科学学科的学生都易于获取和有意义。一小时的CI课程可以通过一个易于使用的科学门户获得，用于广泛的教育用途。该项目为国家未来的科研队伍拓宽了网络基础设施的访问范围，使社区能够采用网络基础设施，从而服务于国家利益，正如NSF的使命所述：促进科学进步；促进国家健康、繁荣和福利；确保国防安全。CI一小时项目是一个全国性的活动，向数百名不同的本科生和研究生介绍网络基础设施。以“编程一小时”为蓝本，CI一小时项目正在建立一个可持续的学习社区和可扩展的培训环境，在短期内培训从R1大学到两年制教学学院的近200名教育工作者和500多名研究生和本科生，长期来看可能会有数千人。该项目正在为学生开发17个互动式在线课程，并为教师制作补充课程材料。一小时的CI课程正在使用以向后设计过程为中心的学习成果开发，在该课程中，学生接触网络基础设施，建立概念基础，并建立一套核心技能，以帮助他们实现地理信息科学的网络素养，这需要学习者在八个核心领域具备知识：网络基础设施、并行计算、大数据、计算思维、跨学科交流、空间思维、地理空间数据、空间建模与分析。该项目通过建立一个名为GISandbox的科学门户，为教育工作者和学生提供一个网络基础设施支持的培训环境，通过web浏览器可以访问所有小时的CI课程，从而降低了入门门槛。在本项目期间建立的可持续学习社区将在项目期间之后继续扩大CI一小时的采用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Cyberinfrastructure empowers the growing knowledge economy in the United States, and plays a role in defense, homeland security, agriculture, and commerce by providing powerful computational resources to support data analytics and modeling. However, many scientific disciplines currently face the question of how to seamlessly integrate cyberinfrastructure training in their educational programs. Students and researchers in these disciplines thus often lack experience in using the most advanced tools and techniques to grapple with the crucial global challenges they are being trained to investigate. This project addresses this challenging problem by creating a clear curriculum model for educators - an Hour of Cyberinfrastructure (Hour of CI) - that integrates cyberinfrastructure skill building into domain-specific curriculum, with a clear learning goal for students: try cyberinfrastructure for one hour. Geospatially-based lessons in this project draw on real-world problems from social sciences, environmental sciences, and geosciences to make them accessible and meaningful to students in many scientific disciplines. Hour of CI lessons are available via an easy-to-use science gateway for broad-scale educational use. The project broadens access and enable community adoption of cyberinfrastructure for the nation's future scientific research workforce thus serving the national interest, as stated by NSF's mission: to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; and secure the national defense.The Hour of CI project is a nationwide campaign introducing hundreds of diverse undergraduate and graduate students to cyberinfrastructure. Modeled on the "Hour of Code, the Hour of CI project is building a sustainable learning community and scalable training environment to train almost two hundred educators and over five hundred graduate and undergraduate students at institutions ranging from R1 universities to two-year teaching colleges in the short-term and potentially thousands more in the long-term. The project is developing 17 interactive, online lessons for students and creating supplementary curriculum materials for instructors. Hour of CI lessons are being developed using a learning outcome centered Backward Design Process in which students are exposed to cyberinfrastructure, establish conceptual foundations, and build a core set of skills to help them achieve Cyber Literacy for Geographic Information Science, which requires learners to be knowledgeable in eight core areas: cyberinfrastructure, parallel computing, big data, computational thinking, interdisciplinary communication, spatial thinking, geospatial data, and spatial modeling and analytics. The project lowers the barrier to entry for educators and students by building on a science gateway called the GISandbox to provide a cyberinfrastructure-enabled training environment accessible through a web browser for all Hour of CI lessons. The sustainable learning community built during the course of this project will continue to expand adoption of the Hour of CI beyond the project period.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.