3: Cyber Capable

Transformed education and training ensure that current generations benefit fully from cyber capabilities and inspire a diverse, prepared, and highly productive next-generation workforce of cyber innovators.

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Cyber Capable -- The third essential foundation for the bright future envisioned by the NITRD agencies involves the human side of the human-computer partnership. To remain at the forefront, the Nation will need a cyber-capable citizenry -- Americans well prepared to be savvy consumers and users of IT and, with advanced education and training, to generate the discoveries, inventions, and creative ideas that will propel U.S. innovation in an increasingly competitive global economy. In the NITRD vision, cyber capabilities and tools will be applied to provide learners at every level with rich and exciting knowledge environments informed by the science of learning, tailored to individual needs, and guided by educators with theoretical and practical IT knowledge. The cyber-capable society will thus require an education and training system that can deliver world-class preparation in computer science and other science disciplines, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Following are the key elements of this vision and the major research challenges to be met in each.

Stakeholder(s):

• Cyber Innovators

Objective(s):

3.1: Workforce

3.1.1: Education and Training

3.2: Education

3.2.1: Multi-Faceted Advances

3.2.2: IT Knowledge and Skills

3.3: Technologies

3.3.1: Human Learning

3.3.2: Learning Environments

3.3.3: Educators

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