A Community to Develop Materials for an Engineering Learning Environment

试图为数字图书馆中的工程教育内容集创建材料的教职员工面临着几个挑战。缺乏健全的教学实践培训，缺乏有效使用教育技术的培训，缺乏制作完成和测试的作品所需的资源和时间，以及大学教师奖励制度不重视改进教学，这些都是编写教材的主要障碍。为了改善这种情况，该项目努力创建一个积极、参与和持续的工程教育者虚拟社区，他们积极地贡献和共享公共课程集合中的材料。虚拟社区正在将Form作为孵化器，在其中培训教师合理的教学实践，例如，制定学习目标和评估技术。接下来，参与者在许多不同的教学/学习情景中接受有效使用技术的培训，包括：课堂演示、自学、远程和分布式学习、体验式学习等。一旦接受培训，教师就会对其专业领域的一系列课件模块产生兴趣。提供了指导方针，以便从技术组合的角度和正在使用的教学方法的角度将模块相互结合。虚拟贡献者社区的成员随后成为课程模块的测试者，每个贡献者使用模块的子集在他们的家庭校园进行课程。一旦建立了主题领域的基线收藏，项目人员将举办关于如何采用和改编收藏材料的全国性研讨会。将使用NEEDS对收藏进行编目和提供。关键词：虚拟社区、需求、数字图书馆

Faculty members attempting to create materials for collections of engineering educationcontent in a digital library face several challenges. Lack of training in sound pedagogicalpractices, a shortage of training in the effective use of educational technology, shortsupply of required resources and time to produce completed and tested works, and a lackof emphasis on improved teaching in the university faculty rewards systems are the majorobstacles to materials development. To remedy this situation, this project endeavors tocreate an active, engaged, and sustained virtual community of engineering educators whoenergetically contribute to and share materials from a common collection of courseware.The virtual community is taking form as an incubator in which faculty are trained insound pedagogical practices e.g., developing learning goals and assessment techniques.Next, participants are schooled in the effective use of technology in many differentteaching/learning situations including: classroom presentation, self-study, distance anddistributed learning, experiential learning, etc. Once trained, faculty then develop aportion of a collection of courseware modules in their area of expertise. Guidelines are provided so that modules can be integrated with each other from both the standpointof technology mix as well as the pedagogical approach being used. Members of the virtualcommunity of contributors subsequently become the testers of the courseware modules,with each of the contributors using a subset of modules to conduct courses at theirhome campuses. As soon as a baseline collection in a topic area is established the project personnel will present national workshops on how to adopt and adapt the materials in the collection.NEEDS will be used to catalog and make the collections available.Keywords: Virtual community, NEEDS, digital library