3.1.1: Education and Training
[Develop] advances in thinking about how to organize education and training curricula and experiences, particularly at the
postsecondary level, to help students develop the intellectual capacity to synthesize knowledge from multiple disciplines
and work collaboratively on complex interdisciplinary problems, whether the setting is IT for advanced manufacturing or for
a regional social services delivery system.
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Information technologies are interdependent and are developed from an inherently multidisciplinary basis in the sciences and
in engineering. Building systems and large-scale applications takes teamwork across diverse technologies and academic fields.
Moreover, IT capabilities are used in a wide variety of social contexts that IT professionals also need to understand in order
to create and use applications effectively. For example, in the 1990’s the lack of professionals trained in both computer
science and biology prompted NIH to establish the Nation’s first graduate fellowship programs in bio-informatics; as a result,
such training is now part of the curriculum at many graduate and medical schools. The PCAST argued in its 2007 NITRD review
that the traditional disciplinary stovepipes of the formal educational system present a substantial barrier to development
of diversified, broadly interdisciplinary new generations of cyber innovators.
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