Subject: FW: Draft
Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:19:48 -0500
Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox <gcf@npac.syr.edu>
Resent-To: p_gcf@npac.syr.edu
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:56:41 -0500
From: "Roscoe Giles" <roscoe@bu.edu>
To: "Ann Redelfs" <redelfs@sdsc.edu>, "Geoffrey Fox" <gcf@npac.syr.edu>,
     "Ilona Lappo" <lappo@bu.edu>, "Raquell Holmes" <rmholmes@bu.edu>,
     "Reagan Moore" <moore@sdsc.edu>, "Roscoe C. Giles" <roscoe@bu.edu>,
     "Scott Lathrop" <scott@ncsa.uiuc.edu>

A fast response from Reagan...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reagan Moore [mailto:moore@sdsc.edu]
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 3:41 PM
> To: Roscoe Giles; Raquell Holmes
> Subject: Draft
>
>
> Roscoe:
> I have typed in a brief summary of the computational science
> research agenda.
>
> Reagan
>
> Scaleable Science Education Portals
>
> The project "Scalable Computational Science Education Portals" will
> address critical research  issues in understanding how information
> technology (IT) can be used to support event based learning.  The
> opportunity for fundamental computer science research  is the
> recognition that event based models of information are needed to
> support:
> … Event based learning models
> … Event based collaboration
> … Mapping of information into partially ordered sets
> By applying a consistent model for information across existing
> information collections, the teaching model that will be used to
> transfer  the information, and the collaboration model for delivery
> of the information, it will be possible to dramatically improve the
> ability of the nation to support education.  Results will include the
> ability to use current scientific data collections within educational
> settings, the ability to map between the information organization
> provided within a collection and the information organization
> required by the teaching model, and the ability to support the
> teaching model within a collaborative distributed environment.
>
> An event can be characterized as a transfer of information.  The
> learning process consists of a sequence of events whose aggregate
> information transfer covers the set of information provided by an
> educational course.  The sequence of events is partially ordered, as
> not every student receives the same information.  In distributed
> environments, collaborative sharing of information can also be cast
> as a sequence of events.  The collaboration environment imposes a
> second partial ordering upon the information delivery.  Finally, the
> information that is accessed from a collection, is also an arbitrary
> subset of the total information content of the collection.  Event
> based models for these three components (information resource,
> teaching methodology, and collaborative distribution of information)
> can all be characterized as partially ordered sets of information.
> The challenge is to facilitate mappings between these posets,
>
> Four efforts are needed to realize the goal of Scalable Computational
> Science Education Portals:
> … Development of event-based information models for teaching
> … Development of information models that support extraction of posets
> from scientific collections into the event-based teaching models
> … Development of event-based collaboration models for delivery of
> information
> … Integration of event-based collaboration and event-based teaching
> models within a PACI testbed
>
>