Unleashing Supply: Services for Collaborative Content Development

此NSDL服务项目正在探索如何通过促进内容开发人员的虚拟社区来提高科学、技术、工程和数学教育学习对象的数量和质量。它是为教师和研究人员的合作提供原型支持服务，这些教师和研究人员正在开发其学科中的学习对象，重点是开放和非专有材料。公开课应用服务提供商(ASP)托管每个社区所需的协作工具。为所有社区提供的服务包括开放课程项目目录、供学生使用的基于网络的工具集合、将项目与熟练专家联系起来的顾问数据库，以及一套适用于开放课程学习对象的许可证。该项目的基本理念植根于公开分享学术研究思想和成果的学术传统。该项目使NSDL能够探索一种基础设施，以支持其收藏的未来内容获取。

This NSDL Services project is exploring how to increase the number and quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education learning objects by facilitating virtual communities of content developers. It is prototyping support services for collaborations of teachers and researchers who are developing learning objects in their discipline with an emphasis on open and non-proprietary materials. An open course application service provider (ASP) hosts the collaboration tools needed for each community. Services provided for all communities include a directory of open course projects, a collection of Web-based tools for student use, a consultant database to connect projects with skilled experts, and a set of licenses suitable for open course learning objects. The underlying concept of this project is rooted in the academic tradition of open sharing of ideas and results of scholarly inquiry. This project is enabling the NSDL to explore an infrastructure to support future content acquisition for its collections.