STEM Education and Cyberinfrastructure: Observations, Opportunities, and a Model

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STEM Education and Cyberinfrastructure
Observations, Opportunities, and a Model

• Synthesizing Management Models for
  Cyberinfrastructure
• July 29-30, 2003
• National Science Foundation

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Observations

• Cyberinfrastructure is fundamentally changing the
  relationship between people and knowledge
• Transformations in how knowledge is created,
  shared, and used and by whom, offer the vision
  of a new paradigm cyberlearning

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Opportunities

• Science of learning cognition, perception,
  visualization, simulation, animation
• Distributed access to instruments web-enabled
  (col)laboratories, machine-human hybrids
• Assessment tools and deployment of teacher or
  expert knowledge
• Networked resources (NSDL) digital library
  infrastructure learning object design, use, and
  reuse
• Workforce new professionals, teachers, faculty

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NSDL
Users
Tools
Content
The network is the library.
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NSDL Supports
Learning communities
(profiles)
Application services
(protocols)
Customizable collections
(metadata)
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NSDL Management

• Projects in collections, services, targeted
  research
• One Core Integration project technical and
  organizational glue to bind distributed users,
  content, and services