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Foil 39 Scalable Certificates in Computational Science

From Remarks on Parallel Computing and HPCC Education Ohio Supercomputer Center Workshop -- January 24 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

1 We suggest that Universities historically are "approved" to give "licenses" i.e. certification that students have a certain level of knowledge
2 In the emerging Web based Virtual University, the traditional type and length of learening cycles is not obviously appropriate
3 Further we need to bootstrap WebWisdom and "suck customers in" a little bit at a time!
4 Thus suggest Scalable Certificates
  • Level 1: One day (6 hours)
  • Level 2: One Week (30 hours)
  • Level 3: One Semester/Quarter Course (120 hours)
  • Level 4: Minor/Certificate -- about 5 courses (600 hours)
  • Level 5: Masters degree -- about 12 courses (1400 hours)
5 Note these certificates are also portable as can take anywhere at any time!
6 Traditionally, University courses are 1/3 interaction and 2/3 study/homework
  • i.e. 120 hour course is 40 hours lectruring

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