Integrating Digital Library Resources into Online Courses

这一有针对性的研究项目正在调查一种模式，将NSDL的内容整合到高等教育的在线和网络增强课程中。该项目的第一个用户社区和试验床是德克萨斯州农工电子师范学院(ETC)的学生和教职员工。CollegisEduEnterprises正在提供其ILumina数字图书馆基础设施及其在学习资源元数据标记方面的经验，以促进将德克萨斯农工大学系统学习对象集成到NSDL中。正在开发的服务包括将模块化学习对象内容映射到数学等高领域需求的教师认证能力；为这些学习对象定义反映教师认证要求的基于能力的元数据词汇表；创建内容打包工具套件，使教师能够从存储库中选择学习对象，将其构建为学习模块，并将其连接到课程管理系统或其他交付平台。这些服务是以通用的方式设计和实施的，以便能够有效地集成到NSDL中，并与其他需要能力标签的学习材料和工具的人共享，以根据这些材料和工具构建学习模块。

This Targeted Research project is investigating a model for integrating content from NSDL into online and web-enhanced courses in higher education. The project's first user community and testbed are the students and faculty at the Texas A&M Electronic Teachers College (ETC). CollegisEduprise is supplying its iLumina digital library infrastructure and its experience with metadata tagging of learning resources to facilitate the integration of Texas A&M University System learning objects into the NSDL. Services under development include mapping of modular learning object content to teacher certification competencies in high area needs such as mathematics; defining competency-based metadata vocabularies for these learning objects that reflects the teacher certification requirements; and creating a Content-Packaging Tool Suite to enable faculty to select learning objects from a repository, build them into learning modules, and connect them into course-management systems or other delivery platforms. These services are being designed and implemented in a generalizable way to enable effective integration into the NSDL and sharing with others who want competency-tagged learning materials and tools to construct learning modules from them.