OER ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
(I2U2)[1] project supporting e-Labs based on Grid middleware, as well with the TeraGrid in its education and training activities. The Mariachi experiment[2] to detect extreme energy cosmic rays (EECRs) is also a member of OSG and participates in education and outreach activities.
Figure 8—Virtual organizations offer additional modes of interaction between people, information, and facilities.
There is enormous opportunity for synergy and mutual benefit between the international e-science/CI movement and the international OER movement, particularly in evolving to the next phase: an open participatory learning infrastructure in service of learning and discovery.
3.3.2 Cyberinfrastructure-Enhanced Humanities
Science and engineering communities have led the creation and application of computer and communication technology. They pilot advanced use that then becomes the norm. The humanities, on the other hand, have often been stereotyped as information technological laggers or even anti-technologist. It is therefore particularly noteworthy that there is a growing interest in the strategic implications of cyberinfrastructure for the humanities and a companion interdisciplinary community pursuing specific projects in this area.
The American Council of Learned Societies[3] (ACLS) is a private, nonprofit federation of sixty-eight national scholarly organizations whose mission is "the
- ↑ http://ed.fnal.gov/uueo/i2u2.html
- ↑ micray.bnl.gov/
- ↑ http://www.acls.org/
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