Cybereducation

The advantages of the national cyberinfrastructure cannot be realized without scientists and engineers who understand and can leverage the new capabilities that it provides. Ensuring that today's undergraduate and graduate students learn about and interact with cyberinfrastructure is a key part of ensuring its success and assuring its role in promoting innovations and breakthroughs.

NCSA intends to bring cyberinfrastructure into the nation's undergraduate and graduate classrooms. Just as the cyberenvironments NCSA creates will empower scientists and engineers, they also will ease the integration of computational methods into science and engineering curricula. With cyberenvironments as their disposal, educators can introduce their students to the concepts and techniques of computational science without bogging down in minutiae. The focus can remain squarely on the science.

For more information on NCSA's Cybereducation efforts, see http://education.ncsa.uiuc.edu/. For more information about cyberinfrastructure training, see http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/Training/.