CC* Team: Piloting a CI-Enabled Tribal College and University Research Collaboration

美国印第安人高等教育联盟和机构合作伙伴坐牛学院，Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish学院，联合部落技术学院海龟山社区学院，Cankdeska Cikana社区学院，和北达科他州州立大学正在这个网络团队项目上建立网络基础设施（CI）的社会技术基础，支持合作，既支持当前的STEM研究和教育计划，又为积极的研究计划开发提供框架。该项目涉及六个参与机构的教师，学生和IT人员，他们在CI改进，IT人员能力建设和分布式STEM编程方面进行合作，重点是环境科学，最终包括工程，数字制造和其他STEM学科。该项目将提供专业发展，支持，为所有北达科他州部落学院和大学（TCU）的教师和学生提供指导和合作研究机会。该项目将增加经济发展的机会，并通过CI支持的基础和应用研究，加强卫生，教育和其他服务的设计和提供。它将成为全国TCU采用必要的CI资源的典范，以支持实施更广泛的研究和教育活动，该项目的协作能力建设框架实施了连接主义学习模式，在该模式中，网络化的人力和物力资源构成了一个复杂的自适应系统，可以产生可操作的知识（包括技术和特定领域）可持续发展。该项目测试了一个假设，即连接主义框架可以在建立小型资源挑战机构和组织的研究和教育能力方面起到变革作用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

The American Indian Higher Education Consortium and institutional partners Sitting Bull College, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, United Tribes Technical College Turtle Mountain Community College, Cankdeska Cikana Community College, and North Dakota State University are partnering on this Cyber Team project that establishes the socio-technical foundations of a cyberinfrastructure (CI)-enabled collaboration that will both support current STEM research and education programs and provide the framework for aggressive research program development. The project involves faculty, students and IT staff at the six participating institutions collaborating on CI improvements, IT staff capacity-building, and distributed STEM programming focused on environmental science, eventually including engineering, digital manufacturing and other STEM disciplines.The project will provide professional development, support, mentoring and collaborative research opportunities for faculty and students at all North Dakota Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). The project will enhance opportunities for economic development and enhance the design and delivery of health, education, and other services developed through CI-enabled basic and applied research. It will serve as a model for engaging TCUs nationally in the adoption of CI resources necessary to support implementation of a significantly broader range of research and education activities, particularly involving collaborations with the larger research community.The project’s collaborative capacity-building framework implements the connectivist learning model in which networked human and physical resources constitute a complex adaptive system that generates actionable knowledge (both technical and domain-specific) sustainably. The project tests the hypothesis that a connectivist framework can be transformative in building the research and education capacity of small resource challenged institutions and organizations.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.