[et-cg] Brief summary of the ET frameworks meeting

[Kathryn Cassidy]

Hi there,

Just a quick mail to give an update of the ET-Frameworks session this
morning and also test the mailing list!

We continued to work on the definitions and came up with the
following, they're more collections of keywords than full sentences, but
it's a start.

Evaluation: a procedure to identify the quality of the
course/lectures/presentation (educational activity) via standard
procedures (exam?) and existing guidelines (by students and E&T WG (e.g.
based on the students' comments, does it fulfill the educational aims).

Author: creator of content or educational material

Classification: A way to identify the level of difficulty, aims, etc.
of an educational activity.  Based on the parameters of the course/
module/activity.

Educational activity: an activity with the aim of teaching the student.
This is an umbrella term for lecture, presentation, practical, tutorial,
etc.

Maks/grade: a way to evaluate the learning success of a student

Student certification: documentary evidence of passing an exam or
attaining a certain level of educational achievement from a course

Teacher certification: Mechanism for the teacher to prove his/her competence
to teach the course/module

Course certification: an approval given to the course/module if it
fulfills the expected standards/guidelines

Credits: a way to measure the educational value of a course/module

We also discussed a sample curriculum using the ICEAGE one which you
showed yesterday as a starting point.  The modules which we came up with
were as follows, we covered admin and programming points of view, the
idea being that an admin course might consist of slots 1, 2 and 5 while
a programmer might take 1, 2, 3 and 4.  Again, more discussion is
needed, but I'll put all of this into the wiki once access is sorted
out.

slot 1
introduction
motivation (why)
history
definition (what)
examples, case studies, applications, etc. (where/who)

slot 2
security
information services
resource allocation and management (job submission, moitoring, etc.)
data management

slot 3
programming paradigms (parameter sweeps, parallel jobs, mpi, workflow,
etc.)
grid-relevant part of programming languages

slot 4
service oriented architecture
web services
grid services
standards and OGF activities

slot 5
grid installation


I'll tidy up the rest of the material and send around minutes for all
three sessions soon.

Thanks,
Kathryn.