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NCSA Education Edee Wiziecki, Eric Jakobsson

NCSA Education Edee Wiziecki, Eric Jakobsson. Major National Challenge Posed by the President: Preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers to reaffirm America’s role as the world’s engine of scientific discovery and technology innovation. Advance three areas of expertise:

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NCSA Education Edee Wiziecki, Eric Jakobsson

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  1. NCSA Education Edee Wiziecki, Eric Jakobsson Major National Challenge Posed by the President: Preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers to reaffirm America’s role as the world’s engine of scientific discovery and technology innovation. Advance three areas of expertise: • Research to Learning: Creating a seamless interface between inquiry learning and research using computational science and computational science education tools. • Impact at state and national levels: Effecting change in STEM education by participating in activities that transform education • SONT; ICLCS; RTTT • Creating cyberinfrastructure to support education: Collecting and analyzing data that will inform the educational research community on best practices, and providing access to computing facilities for educational science computing. NCSA Strategic Planning Presentation (April 20,2010)

  2. Achieving Objectives • Impact at State and National levels: Effecting transformational change in STEM education Seek opportunities to engage as state, national decision makers as members of organizations, governments (i.e., setting standards for education to include Comp Science; RTTT, DOE Innovation Grant) • Success of ICLCS provides a foundation for many initiatives (other scientific disciplines, assessment/evaluation, graduate program in computational science education, computational science for undergraduate education, cloud computing, virtual machine technology) NCSA Strategic Planning Presentation (April 20,2010)

  3. Achieving Objectives • Creating cyberinfrastructure to support education: Collecting and analyzing data that will inform the educational research community on best practices, and to provide access to computing facilities for educational science computing. • Generate rich educational data on the impact that computational science education has on student achievement. • Include both statistical and ethnographic evaluation components in grant proposals. • Provide the cyberinfrastructure for longitudinal studies. NCSA Strategic Planning Presentation (April 20,2010)

  4. Adaptation of Computational Tools for Inquiry-Based Education and Beginning Research. • Premise: As computational tools have revolutionized scientific research, they also have the potential to revolutionize inquiry learning in courses. • Premise: The boundary between inquiry learning and research should be seamless. • Successful examples in NCSA projects to date: Bioinformatics, quantum chemistry, molecular visualization. • Strategy: Partner with schools in building tested computational science educational tools in the context of a cyberinfrastructure that integrates teaching, inquiry learning, educational and science research. NCSA Strategic Planning Presentation (April 20,2010)

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