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"Global Cyber-Commons: Collaborative, Instructional Environments
for the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering"

Created on June 28, 2008

2008   ·   paper   ·   papers

Global Cyber-Commons: Collaborative, Instructional Environments
for the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering

Leigh, J., Brown, M., Johnson, A., Renambot, L., Jones, S., Moher, T.

image Cyber-Commons at UIC’s Instructional Computing Lab, Computer Science Department, College of Engineering Credit: J. Leigh, EVL

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) and several of its collaborators are already putting in place a Global Cyber-Commons, a networked set of instructional spaces with access to the same cyberinfrastructure (CI) based resources as research laboratories, as well as additional synchronous and asynchronous tools, called Cyber-Mashups, to enable and encourage computer-science and computational-science graduate and undergraduate student use. Participating faculty use Cyber-Commons to teach CI-based classes, and students use CI to implement class projects.