Curricula Development for e-Science: Meeting the Challenges

by Malcolm Atkinson, David Fergusson, and Elizabeth Vander Meer

Researchers in fields such as physics and biomedicine appreciate e-Science's importance to their work. E-Science methods have become integral to the ways in which they do research. But physics and biomedicine aren’t the only fields with vast amounts of data to organize, process, and analyze. All disciplines must now contend with this problem, so computer-enabled methods have become valuable, and even necessary, in some branches of the social sciences and the arts and humanities. To fully exploit e-Science tools, researchers must have the appropriate knowledge and skills. Development of e-Science curricula that can speak to a diversity of student and academic contexts is vital to successful learning, but this task is far from straightforward.

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