| Wednesday, September 13 |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | |
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Education and Training Community Group Workshop (1/2)
(90 mins)
David Fergusson, Malcolm Atkinson, Beth Plale, Ann Redelf
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The Education & Training Community Group (E&T CG) will develop a programme of work to increase awareness of the importance of education and training for grid computing. We believe it is vital to increase investment in E&T to ensure that a much wider community is equiped to make best use of grid based infrastructures. To undertake this we need to share best practice, develop standards for quality assurance and mechanisms for sharing E&T resources.
Best practice may include curricula, teaching methods, experience, teaching material and provision of t-infrastructure (i.e. specialised e-infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure for education including software, data and computer systems required to deliver courses and to support teachers and learners).
Coordination may include consistent policies for student access, presentation of teaching material, and mutual recognition of educational attainment. Shared material may be curricula, recorded lectures, presentations and exercises, virtual experiments and practical experience of collaboration. Shared training support could include course scheduling and advertising as well as the provision of a shared t-infrastructure to support educators and learners.
We seek to establish a consensus and collaboration in the development and delivery of education and training that will improve the provision and use of e-infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure. The goals will include:
* encouraging recognition of the importance of education and training;
* discovering, understanding and recording the current practice;
* developing and presenting agreed best practice;
* establishing mutual recognition of courses and educational or training attainments;
* identifying the opportunities for sharing educational material and training facilities;
* establishing best practice and policies for contributing those shared resources; and
* establishing best practice and policies for providing access to those resources.
See http://wiki.e-irg.org/bin/view/Main/TrainingAndEducation for e-IRG work in this area.
Agenda:
1. Welcome,
2. Introduction
a. Charter progress
b. Report of activities since GGF 17
3. Characteristics of Courses.
a. Framework for terms describing courses
b. Commitment to develop terms
4. Collation of Courses.
a. Work in progress
b. sources and sharing
c. plan for creating and maintaining a
web-based tabulation
4. Mechanisms for Agreeing on Curricula and Standards.
a. What is a standard grid curriculum?
b. E&T attainment targets
5. Mechanisms for Developing and Sharing Best Practice.
a. Accrediting trainers
b. Standard qualifications
6. Policy for Providing t-Infrastructure.
a. Booking policies
b. Access policies
c. Provision policies
7. Policy for Supporting Self-paced Learners.
a. Requirements
b. Arrangements to interwork between resources including existing standards.
c. Policy for access
Location: 144C
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