This year, I have had the opportunity to serve on a task force established jointly by the US National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources which looked at issues involving the use of cyberinfrastructure to advance teaching and learning, complementing much of the earlier discussion of cyberinfrastructure which has focused on research.  This group was chaired by Professor Chris Borgman at UCLA, and included a very diverse set of participants.

The report, which is titled Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge, is now available at

http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08204


I think that the report contains a great deal to think about, and covers a very broad range of issues; I'd urge you to at least have a look at the executive summary.

The closing plenary at the Fall CNI meeting taking place in December in Washington, DC,  will be looking at some of the issues raised by the report.



Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI