Planning for Effective Community Input on Cyberlearning and Workforce Development for Cyberinfrastructure

在21世纪，我们的国家必须精通网络基础设施，才能在国际市场上具有竞争力。教育不再是PK-20，而是一个终身的努力，影响着普通公民以及未来和现在的科学家和工程师。我们学习什么和如何学习的本质正受到网络基础设施(CI)和新兴计算科学与工程(CS&amp；E)的巨大影响，这些基础设施推动了CI的大部分发展。我们正在见证信息促进学习或网络学习的出现，这种学习在正规和非正式STEM教育和其他领域具有巨大的潜力。为了满足其预期的劳动力需求，国家必须扩大传统上代表性不足的群体在STEM的参与，特别是在CI和CS&Amp；E，并利用CI来帮助扩大这一努力。由该领域选定的专家小组计划的一系列研讨会将极大地推动网络学习和网络基础设施劳动力发展的研究和课程开发。网络学习和CI劳动力管道发展有可能极大地扩大妇女、残疾人、未被充分代表的少数群体和少数群体服务机构在STEM和CI未来的参与。国家科学基金会S的网络基础设施学习和劳动力发展目标设想了在教育和社会的各个层面扩大CI知识、技能和机会。为实现这些目标制定一种有效的方法，让社区参与进来，将有助于国家和传播与信息社区朝着这一方向有效地前进，从而最终实现传播与传播在学习、发现、创新、更广泛地参与科学和工程以及实现科学和工程民主化方面的全部好处。

For the 21st century, our nation must be cyberinfrastructure savvy if it is to be competitive in the international marketplace. Education is no longer PK-20, but rather a lifelong endeavor affecting the general citizenry as well as future and current scientists and engineers. The very nature of what and how we learn is being greatly impacted by cyberinfrastructure (CI) and the emerging computational sciences and engineering(CS & E) fueling much of CI development. We are witnessing the emergence of CI-enabled learning, or cyberlearning, which holds tremendous potential for formal and informal STEM education and other fields. To meet its anticipated workforce demands, the nation must broaden the participation of traditionally underrepresented groups in STEM, particularly in CI and CS & E, and utilize CI to help this broadening effort.A series of workshops, planned by a select group of experts in the field, would greatly advance research and curricular developments for cyberlearning and cyberinfrastructure workforce development.Cyberlearning and CI workforce pipeline development have the potential to greatly expand the participation of women, persons with disabilities, underrepresented minorities, and minority-serving institutions in thefuture of STEM and CI. The NSF?s learning and workforce development goals for cyberinfrastructure envision an expansion of CI knowledge, skills, and opportunities throughout all levels of education and society. Developing an effective approach for community input on achieving those goals would help the nation and the CI community to move effectively in that direction, and thus ultimately realize the full benefits of CI for learning, discovery, innovation, and broader engagement in and the democratization of science and engineering.