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Public Dissemination and Education (PDE) Working Group

MSM U01 Suggestions for MSM Dissemination Activities (comments and suggestions before and during the meeting):

1. Develop a database of multiscale models analogous to PubMed or RefSeq => add lnks to all the existing repositories on the wiki
2. The MSM Consortium needs to better “sell” the utility of computational modeling to the various institutes of the NIH. Other participating government organizations seem to have a better understanding of the potential utility of modeling in their areas but since the majority of the MSM funding seems to be from the NIH, we need to better sell modeling across the NIH institutions. => help NLM make a repository of models.. we can be an advisory board.  Leverage AIMBE to lobby for the utility of MSMs.  Present how models can help with policy/decision making. 
3. I would like to see the MSM consortium begin to think about how to educate students (and PIs) in multi-scale modeling. Is everything we do specific to the individual problems and modeling frameworks, or are there some common principles we could start to abstract, articulate, and teach?  => we talked about that in terms of course development, tutorials, etc.  LInks to materials out there .. Steering committee has been discussing creation of tutorials; do we have common format or quality control?  Or let the community deal with it?  hpcuniversity.org is a common place for storying lectures and tutorials.  could we publish an opensurce textbook as a community?   It shouldn't be too hard for us to put a course together!  Use webinar functionality of IMAG to make the tutorials.  We need to put together a syllabus. 
4. Some of our group has been funded by the MSM mechanism since the origin of the program. We wonder if there is a better way to archive for tutorial purposes or to communicate findings and approaches, i.e. to share the collective expertise of MSM funded researchers with the next generation of researchers. While there are many wonderful examples of models in published works from the community, and some attempt at a central repository of models, there is little in the way of a higher-level introduction to the field. This could be accomplished via a book and/or summer schools.
5. MSM should support training and education projects.  yes!  suggest an R25-type mechanism for training grants related to generating resources for a general multi-scale modeling course. 
6. There are challenges in enabling and encouraging Multiscale Experimental Data Collection that could be a topic of discussion; we can further improve how we share modeling and algorithmic expertise, so we can benefit more from each other’s work.
7. The MSM consortium ought to focus efforts on making multiscale models understandable and accessible to decision makers.
8. Develop freely accessible and rigorous didactic/training resources on various MSM methods and illustrative applications
9. More extensive outreach to the medical and biological communities to demonstrate the value of modeling

Summary of PDE Working Group discussion at 2018 IMAG-MSM FUTURES MEETING:

 

PREAMBLE: Who are we trying to disseminate to and educate about multiscale modeling?

. high school students and teachers

. college students 

. 1st year graduate students trying to find their way

. more senior grad students and post docs

. faculty

. policy makers

. retirees 

 

A. PUBLIC DISSEMINATION:

1. Twitter

- New Twitter presence by Dr. Basanta (#IMAG, @msm2018, https://twitter.com/hashtag/MSM2018?src=hash) -- Thank you, David!

Description: "In order to simulate biology we need to make computer models of processes across scales."

 

- Handle and Hashtags:

Possible handles (twitter poll!)

@Biomodel

@msbiomodel

@imag_msm

@biosim

@simhealth

@computingbiology

@computingbiomedicine

@simulatingbiology

@simulationtoolsforbiomed

@zoomingtobiology

@multiscalesim

@multiscalesimlife

@multiscalemodeling

@multiscalecomputing

 

2. LinkedIn Group: "Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG)": https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12095434

 

3. "IMAG's NEXT TOP MODEL" Video Competition 

- Due Sept. 1st, 2018

- Four minute long video to describe the use of multiscale models and the impact of your research

- Postable on Youtube

- Showcase the use of a multi-scale model to address an important question

- Winner gets a $200 Amazon, $100 2nd place, $503rd place

- Rubric for judges (includes high school students & teachers as judges): originality/creativity (20 points), educational value (20 points), comprehensible (20 points), prominently feature multiscale modeling (20 points), highlight the real-world impact of the research (20 points)

 

4. New PDE YouTube Video Channel

 

5. JoVE Videos of multiscale-models

 

6. Searchable registry of moldel sharing websites

http://www.physiome.org/

https://simtk.org

 

7. Have a "SUCCESSES" tab on the IMAG Wiki 

 

8. Write popular press or Forbes magazine article about MSM and provide access to editors who help craft messages for lay audience 

 

B. EDUCATION:

1. SimTK "Community": IMAG-MSM Public Dissemination & Education Working Group

https://simtk.org/category/communityPage.php?cat=1005&sort=date&page=0&s...

2. "Skills Guidance Package" for learners at all levels

3. Discussion of developing new syllabi & materials (that our community can easily develop because we do it all the time anyway)

a. Audience for our educational material:

           . Ted-talk style lectures for wider distribution of learners

           . Graduate level classes on multi-scale modeling 

b. Types of educational material (divided by scale, and spcific to multi-scale):

           . Methods

           . Applications 

c. Tools for sharing this educational measurements:

      - Basic: YouTube, Vimeo, etc (Free, at most rudimentary interaction and tracking)

      - Intermediate: Kaltura, https://corp.kaltura.com

                        PlayPosit, https://www.playposit.com

(Not free to disseminators or their institutions but can be free to users. Enable interactivity, tracking, grading. Can be used to overlay YouTube content. Playposit requires offline video recording and editing. Kaltura is cloud-based for recording, editing and delivery)

      - Advanced: MOOC Platforms: Udacity, Coursera, edX (Free to students but costly to develop and deploy $4300 per video hour, range $152,000-$244,000 in total)