[CAnet - news] Cyber-Infrastructure for Education and Learning

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There's a recently-issued report titled "Cyberinfrastructure for 
Education and Learning for the Future: A Vision and Research Agenda" 
from the Computing Research Association, reporting on a series of 
workshops that they held, with NSF support, in late 2004 and early 
2005 looking specifically at the relationships between 
cyberinfrastructure services and teaching and learning, as opposed to 
the more usual emphasis on research. The report can be found at:

http://www.cra.org/reports/cyberinfrastructure.pdf


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

Foreword
This report is the result of a series of workshops organized by the
Computing Research Association and the International Society of the Learning
Sciences with support from the National Science Foundation
(Grant No. REC-0449247).

The purpose of the workshop series was to explore where we are in the
application of pervasive computing power to education, and where we need to
be. In particular, the intent was to develop a map of where NSF can
strategically place its resources in creating the learning environments of
the future.

The four workshops were:
1. Modeling, Simulation and Gaming Technologies Applied to Education,
September 27-29, 2004.
2. Cognitive Implications of Virtual or Web-enabled Environments, November
30-December 1, 2004.
3. How Emerging Technology and Cyberinfrastructure Might Revolutionize the
Role of Assessment in Learning, February 16-17, 2005.
4. The Interplay Between Communities of Learning or Practice and
Cyberinfrastructure,March 24-25, 2005.

This report is based on the results of these four workshops and was written
by Shaaron Ainsworth,Margaret Honey, W. Lewis Johnson, Kenneth Koedinger,
Brandon Muramatsu, Roy Pea, Mimi Recker, and Stephen Weimar as
representatives of the four workshops. A list of the workshops' participants
appears in Appendix A. The report was edited by CRA staff Andrew Bernat,
Jean Smith, and Daniel Rothschild. The report is posted on the CRA website
(http://www.cra.org/reports/cyberinfrastructure.pdf). To
request a hard copy, send an e-mail to [email protected].



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