Collaborative Project: Digital Educational Resources in Microbial Ecology, Evolution and Diversity (DERMEED1)

DERMEED-1是一个权威和不断扩展的教育资源，为不同的教育工作者和学生社区提供有关微生物的专家信息。其范围涵盖微生物进化、多样性和生态学以及极端环境中的生命。这个合作项目（伍兹霍尔海洋生物实验室和蒙大拿州立大学）吸引了在开发网络媒介教育资源方面具有强大和以前独立记录的研究人员，它填补了NSDL的一个重要利基，连接了分子生物学，基因组学，微生物生态学和地球系统科学领域。此外，它解决了这些领域的教学资源的课程需求，以及公众对各种形式的生活的多样性和发生的兴趣。该门户网站由伍兹霍尔海洋生物实验室的海湾保罗中心提供服务，并建立在NASA天体生物学研究所早期贡献的基础上。DERMEED-1正在汇集和传播有关项目（如显微镜、生命树）的图像、数据和科学贡献，并通过NSDL网络提供分类名称服务器-一种处理分类元数据的机制。此外，正在利用DLESE的编目做法，编制教学材料专题集，作为这些数据库的教育覆盖层。这些资源增加了K-16的课程要求，并满足了公共宣传组织（博物馆，国家公园）或致力于终身学习的组织的需求。教学资源的选择是由教学最佳做法驱动的，这些做法提供资源以满足用户群体的需要。科学资源（图像，数据）和教学资源（专题收藏）的集合的共同发展显着解决NSF的研究和教育的整合目标。DERMEED-1提供了微生物学的沿着许多方面的教育资源，供许多受众学习;通过将科学资源重新用于教育用途，增加了科学资源的价值;链接了生命科学和物理科学的材料和资源;并有助于开发广泛适用于NSDL的信息系统（例如外链）。

DERMEED-1 is a definitive and expanding educational resource providing expert information about microorganisms for a diverse community of educators and students. Its scope covers microbial evolution, diversity and ecology and life in extreme environments. This collaborative project (Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory and Montana State University) draws together researchers with strong and previously independent track records in developing web-mediated educational resources, and it fills an important niche in the NSDL, bridging the fields of molecular biology, genomics, microbial ecology, and Earth system science. In addition, it addresses curricular needs for instructional resources in these areas as well as the public's interest in the diversity and occurrences of life in all its forms. The portal is served by the Bay Paul Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, and builds on earlier contributions as part of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. DERMEED-1 is aggregating and disseminating collections of images, data, scientific contributions from related projects (e.g. micro*scope, Tree of Life), and making available the Taxonomic Name Server - a mechanism to handle taxonomic metadata - through the NSDL network. In addition, thematic collections of instructional materials are being developed, using DLESE cataloging practices, as an educational overlay to these databases. These resources augment curriculum requirements from K-16 and serve the needs of public outreach organizations (museums, national parks), or those committed to life-long learning. Selection of instructional resources is being driven by pedagogic best practices that provide resources to meet the needs of the community of users. The co-development of collections of scientific resources (images, data) and instructional resources (thematic collections) is significantly addressing NSF's goal of integration of research and education. DERMEED-1 provides educational resources along many dimensions of microbiology for learning by many audiences; adds value to scientific resources by repurposing them for educational use; links materials and resources across the life and physical sciences; and contributes to the development of information systems (e.g outlinking) that are broadly applicable in the NSDL.