Creating Learning Opportunities for Undergraduates in Developing Technologies: Expansion Project

云技术和虚拟化的使用在国内和本地都是一个不断增长的趋势。越来越多的雇主将他们的信息技术数据转移到云端。这个项目将开发云计算技术的教育资源，以满足关键的行业需求。由于云技术的新兴和不断发展的性质，高等教育机构尚未广泛创建课程和支持实验室，以有效地教育能够管理，故障排除和支持云基础设施的技术人员。该项目旨在推进云技术的知识，包括虚拟化，存储，网络/网络安全，编程和自动化。它计划实施一个新的云基础设施，以支持对实时云环境的安全远程访问。这种访问将使其他机构感兴趣的教师能够学习如何创建和使用环境。该项目还将努力通过外展活动让K-12学生参与STEM学习。通过传播，这些云课程资源将有可能扩展教育和职业途径，为学生进入信息技术领域的高技能/高需求职业做好准备，并促进STEM教育的发展。该项目的主要目标是推进国家虚拟化和云技术课程知识库和实践实验室活动，以满足行业需求。第二个目标是通过K-12外联和发展转移途径来加强信息技术中的STEM管道。该项目将创建一个强大的云计算环境，具有功能齐全的OpenStack云。在该环境和现有的虚拟化云实验室环境中，学生将能够为编程语言环境创建云实例，学习如何将云实例从该私有云迁移到公共云提供商，开发和部署应用程序到云，并介绍软件开发和操作概念和技能。此外，学生将学习使用脚本语言来维护和保护软件定义的数据中心，并评估操作系统和数据存储模型，以设计高效的应用程序。该项目将建立在基础设施即服务云开发模型的基础上，以添加与平台即服务和软件即服务模型相关的课程。广泛传播该项目开发的课程、实验室和其他材料，包括促进适应的用户指南，有可能在全国范围内改善中学后教育机构的技术教育。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智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The use of cloud technology and virtualization is a growing trend both nationally and locally. Employers are increasingly moving their information technology data to the cloud. This project will develop educational resources in Cloud Computing Technology to address a critical industry need. Due to the emerging and evolving nature of cloud technology, institutions of higher education have not yet widely created curricula and supporting labs to effectively educate technicians who can manage, troubleshoot, and support cloud infrastructure. The project aims to advance knowledge in cloud technologies, including virtualization, storage, network/cybersecurity, programming, and automation. It plans to implement a new cloud infrastructure that will support secure remote access to a live cloud environment. This access will enable interested faculty from other institutions to learn how to create and use the environment. The project will also strive to engage K-12 students in STEM learning through outreach activities. Through dissemination, these cloud curricular resources will have the potential to expand educational and career pathways, prepare students for high-skill/high-demand occupations in information technology, and promote the development of STEM education.The primary goal of this project is to advance the national knowledge base of virtualization and cloud technology curriculum and hands-on lab activities to meet industry needs. A secondary goal is to strengthen the STEM pipeline in information technology through K-12 outreach and the development of transfer pathways. This project will create a robust Cloud Computing Environment that features a fully functional OpenStack Cloud. Within that environment and an existing virtualized cloud lab environment, students will be able to create cloud instances for programming language environments, learn how to migrate cloud instances from this private cloud to a public cloud provider, develop and deploy applications to the cloud, and be introduced to software development and operations concepts and skills. In addition, students will learn to use scripting languages to maintain and secure software-defined datacenters and evaluate operating system and data storage models to design efficient applications. The project will build on prior work with an Infrastructure as a Service cloud development model to add curriculum related to Platform as a Service and Software as a Service models. Broad dissemination of the curriculum, labs, and other materials developed by the project, including a User's Guide to facilitate adaptation, have the potential to improve technical education at postsecondary institutions on a national scale.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.