Computational Science Education Referene Desk (CSERD): Push, Pull, Permeate, Persist

Posted Tue, 11/03/2009 - 1:24pm by pjacobs
Grant Number: 
0937910
Target Audiences: 
CSERD aims to help students learn about computational science and to help faculty and teachers incorporate it into the classroom.
Partners: 
CSERD has engaged key partners to leverage its computational science resources. Collaborations such as the SCXY Conference, TeraGrid, HPC University, Sigma Xi and Blue Waters allow CSERD to serve a wider community of educators and students. HPC University – TeraGrid and Shodor have partnered to provide a collection of accredited education and training resources on High Performance Computing. Pathways to Petascale – an ambitious, multi-scale effort to transform learning through computational thinking enabled by petascale technologies. Pathways to Supercomputing – CSERD’s three-year partnership with the SCxy committee and the National Compuational Science Institute (NCSI) will allow for the review, enhancement, and creation of objects in CSERD and NSDL occurring in summer workshops and the SCxy program from 2007-2009. Blue Waters – Shodor will have a national leadership role in teaching others to effectively harness the power of the world’s largest computer, which will be ready for use in 2011.

Shodor and its partners in CSERD continue to transform learning through computational thinking.  CSERD continues to enhance its technology infrastructure and the user's experience, expand its partnerships, recruit reviewers and editors.  The hallmark of our effort is the rigourous Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A) review process and the Journal of Computational Science Education (JOCSE).  JOCSE promotes the use of computation in education through disseminating unique uses of computation in the classroom as well as research findings in computational science education, with submissions from both professionals and students. JOCSE utilizes internet technology and a web-based format to allow for enhanced interactivity in all publications. Materials accepted by JOCSE will be hosted on the JOCSE website, and will be catalogued by CSERD for inclusion in the National Science Digital Library.

 

Journal of Computational Science Education (JOCSE) http://jocse.org/:

- Submissions:

Submissions are welcomed for computational science lesson plans, exercises with documented programs and datasets, or a technical paper describing the outcomes of computational science education.

- Reviews:

All material will be peer reviewed using the verification, validation and accreditation (VV&A) review process.

- Periodicity of Releases:

JOCSE will initially release quarterly in online form, with more frequent releases if submission quantity warrants.