DLI-Phase2: Columbia Earthscape: A Model for a Sustainable Online Educational Resource in Earth Sciences

摘要IIS-9979967 Kate Wittenberg 哥伦比亚大学 哥伦比亚地球景观：地球科学可持续在线教育资源的模型这是一个标准奖项。 哥伦比亚大学出版社、校园计算中心和教师正在合作为地球科学的前沿课程材料、研究和分析创造新的传播模式。基于哥伦比亚大学在学术在线出版方面已经完成的设计和评估工作，本项目的目标是为该领域的教育材料创建一个完全集成的、高度选择性的交互式在线资源，并评估以订阅为基础的、成本回收模式向教育机构、图书馆和学生提供这些服务的持续价值和经济可行性。通过试验使用数字技术新发展的方法，该项目有可能改变学生了解地球的方式，并在各个可能的层面上与之互动，它为其他学科提供了可供效仿的模式。 与哥伦比亚大学和全国学者的讨论表明，互联网访问，在线出版是一个可能的解决方案，在学术交流和教育的问题，及时获得最新的研究成果，在一个跨学科领域，如地球科学。 该项目通过易于使用的尖端电子工具提供了一个有节制的跨学科学术在线出版物，其中载有该领域正在编制的各种材料。在制作者的支持下，已经确定了足够数量的高质量地球科学奖学金和教学材料可供电子分发。 该项目正在四个关键领域制作模型：在线内容的获取、审查和传播;发展一个有学者、出版商、图书馆和技术人员参与的协作组织;创建可跨项目和学科使用的标准化在线技术系统;以及通过使用在线环境编辑选择性地出版地球科学。 每个模型的结果都可以应用于其他领域和其他规模的数字资源的制作和评估，并将用真实的数据解决有关此类项目近期和长期的有用性和可行性的大问题。

Abstract IIS-9979967Kate Wittenberg Columbia University Press $581,068 - 36 mos.Columbia Earthscape: A Model for a Sustainable Online Educational Resource in Earth Sciences This is a standard award. Columbia University Press, the campus computing center, and faculty are collaborating to create new dissemination models for cutting-edge curricular materials, research, and analysis n Earth Sciences. Based upon design and evaluation work already done at Columbia with scholarly online publishing, the goal of this project is to create a fully-integrated, highly selective interactive online resource for educational materials in this field, and to evaluate the ongoing value and economic viability of providing these services on a subscription-based, cost-recovery model to educational institutions, libraries and students. By experimenting with ways to use new developments in digital technology, this project has the potential to transform the way students learn about the Earth and interact with it on every possible level, and it provides models for other disciplines to follow. Discussions with scholars at Columbia University and nationally reveal that internet-accessible, online publishing is a possible solution to the problem in scholarly communication and education of timely access to the latest research results in an interdisciplinary field such as Earth sciences. The project provides access through easy-to-use, cutting edge electronic tools to a moderated, interdisciplinary scholarly online publication of a wide variety of materials being produced in this field. A critical mass of high-quality Earth sciences scholarship and teaching material has been identified as available for electronic distribution with support from its producers. The project is producing models in four critical areas: online content acquisition, review and dissemination; development of a collaborative organization involving scholars, publishers, libraries, and technologists; creation of standardized online technology systems that can be used across projects and disciplines; and editorially selective publication in Earth sciences through use of the online environment. Findings from each model can be applied to the production and evaluation of digital resources in other fields and at other scales, and will address with real data the large questions concerning the usefulness and viability of such projects in the near and long term.