NSDL A Tool for Teaching and Learning

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NSDL A Tool for Teaching and Learning
Eileen McIlvain Pathways Liaison NSDL Core
Integration BEN Scholars Workshop December 8-10,
2006
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NSDL Pathways workshops goals

• Build awareness and use - spread the wordabout
  BEN, about NSDL
• Connect to user communities
• Give NSDL the opportunity to learn in a direct
  way about unique PW issues and needs
• Explore different models for professional
  development and capacity-building workshops
  evaluate for efficacy, share for replication
• Build capacity - capitalize on partnership
  opportunities shared audiences, shared
  resources, services, expertise
• Build long-term support sustainability

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The National Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics Education Digital Library

• The National Science Foundations online library
  of resources for education and research

• established to catalyze and support continual
  improvements in STEM education at all levels
  (K-12, higher education, lifelong learning)

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NSDL Overview

• Funding Agency National Science Foundation
• Education and Human Resources Directorate
• Initiated by NSF in 2000 as RD project, now part
  of NSFs educational cyberinfrastructure
• Scope Education at all levels (K12, higher ed,
  lifelong learning, research)
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
  (STEM)
• Structure A digital library describing
• 2M selected online STEM resources from hundreds
  of distributed collections and services, provided
  and maintained by many organizations.
• 10 Pathways portals and over 200 NSF-funded NSDL
  grantees
• All joined by a Core Integration team
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  (UCAR)

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What is a Digital Library?
Lesson Plans
Interactives
Documents
Maps
Communities of Practice
Images
Exhibits
Videos
Data Sets
Remotely Operated Instruments
Professional Development
Services
News
Tools
Animations
Visualizations
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Where we were Where we are

• NSDL 1.0 (2002-2004)
• integrated access to NSF-funded NSDL projects
  that had released collections
• two levels of searching and browsing
• community governance and organization
• NSDL 2.0 (2004-present)
• Building the foundation for educational
  partnerships - move from a general purpose
  digital library to a federation of portals each
  with its own focus (one library, many portals) -gt
  Pathways strategy discipline-specific or
  audience-specific portals of NSDL. FEDORA-based
  technical infrastructure enabling
  contextualization of resources.

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Technical Infrastructure

• Metadata
• Modified Dublin Core with crosswalks to other
  schema. Metadata are harvested through OAI and
  NSDLs repository API
• Repository Architecture
• Migrating from metadata-centric Oracle database
  to resource-centric, object-oriented,
  FEDORA-based repository (Flexible Extensible
  Digital Object Repository Architecture)
• Search
• New resource-centric search based on Lucene
• Authentication
• Working toward community sign-on using
  Shibboleth (single login across multiple portals)
• Archiving
• Persistent archive provided by San Diego
  Supercomputing Center

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NSDL Pathways
Partnerships

• Educational level and discipline-specific portals
  to NSDL resources
• Built by leading organizations who are trusted by
  their target audiences
• Provide resources, tools, services, and
  professional development
• A method for professional organizations to engage
  and serve their membership communities

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Pathway and Lead Ed Level
Discipline
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NSDL Offers Educators
An organized point of access to the Internet for
high quality resources supporting STEM
education A source for accurate, appropriate,
and relevant information for educators and
learners at all levels
Peer reviewed materials
Resources that support standards
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Why Not Just Use Google?

• The NSDL Value Proposition
• Relevant search results
• Trusted providers
• Appropriate for students
• Contextualized resources
• User-contributed content
• Peer reviews and other annotations
• Aligned to educational standards
• A bridge between the education and research
  communities

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Publisher Partnerships
Established agreements Scientific
American Oxford University Press
Journals HighWire Press McGraw-Hill Higher
Education Springer Elsevier (books) John
Wiley Blackwell Tool Factory Cambridge University
Press Books Cambridge University Press
Journals Houghton-Mifflin/McDougal-Littel Nature
Publishing Group Tom Snyder BioOne National
Academy Press
Negotiating agreements Bedford, Freeman Worth
Oxford University Press Books Taylor
Francis SAGE Publications O'Reilly
Media/Safari Exploratory discussions American
Psychological Association Riverdeep Interactive
Learning Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Institute of
Physics Publishing American Physical Society
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Expert Voices
Context

• Models scientific inquiry and exposes the
  processes of scientific research
• Promotes and facilitates conversations between
  research and education communities
• Brings content expertise into the classroom to
  support out-of-field teachers
• Allows scientists, teachers, and media
  specialists to collaboratively develop
  instructional context around NSDL resources

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How Much Time Do You Have?
Assemble a links list
Ask a question
Create a module
Run a simulation
Blog on Expert Voices
Download a resource
Find a website
Use an existing module
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NSDL and BEN

• What are your needs?
• What kinds of outreach are you engaged in?
  Teacher training? Professional development
  workshops? conference attendance and booth
  events?
• Dissemination
• Add NSDL to lists of recommended resources
• NSDL search box on portals and partner sites
• NSDL toolbar on university department, school,
  and library browsers

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• Eileen McIlvain
• Pathways Project Liaison
• eileen_at_ucar.edu
• 303-497-8354
• http//nsdl.org