Collaborative Research: The DLESE Community Services Center

为了支持更多和更有效地利用地球系统教育数字图书馆，科罗拉多州立大学、卡尔顿学院、蒙大拿州立大学和纳特罗纳县学区共同参与的项目将创建DLESE社区服务中心(DCSC)。DCSC的主要目标是：(1)增加当前的用户和贡献者基础，以包括更多的K-12、非正式和大学教育工作者和学生；(2)使DLESE用户和贡献者基础多样化，以包括丰富和强大的种族、文化和不同能力群体的代表；以及(3)提高用户和贡献者在其课堂、实验室和社区中轻松查找、适应和使用高质量数字资源的能力。为实现这些目标，私营部门将制定：(A)一系列范例，以记录不同潜在用户群体的需求和使用模式；(B)专业发展和外联服务，以支持使用DLESE，这些范例是有针对性和基础广泛的外联和专业发展活动的基础；(C)在线社区服务，包括向用户和贡献者提供服务台和相关网络中介服务的试点方案。所有方案工作都将得到形成性评价方法的支持，研究成果将有助于更好地了解数字图书馆对科学、技术、工程和数学教育的影响。DCSC将与DLESE评估、数据和收集中心、DLESE计划中心以及不同的受众群体密切合作，以确保DLESE服务具有最高质量，满足当前和未来DLESE用户的需求，并具有可持续性。

To support greater and more effective use of the Digital Library for Earth System Education, a collaborative project involving Colorado State University, Carleton College, Montana State University, and Natrona County School District, will create the DLESE Community Services Center (DCSC). The primary goals of the DCSC are to: (1) increase the current user and contributor base to include greater numbers of K-12, informal, and college educators and students, (2) diversify the DLESE user and contributor base to include rich and robust representation of ethnic, cultural, and differently-abled groups, and (3) improve the ability of users and contributors to easily find, adapt, and use high quality digital resources in their classrooms, laboratories, and communities. To achieve these goals the PIs will develop: (a) a series of exemplars to document the needs and use patterns of diverse groups of potential users, (b) professional development and outreach services to support use of DLESE, informed by the exemplars as the basis of both targeted and broad based outreach and professional development activities, and (c) on-line community services, including a pilot program for providing users and contributors with help desk and related web-mediated services. All programmatic efforts will be supported by formative evaluation methods, and research results will contribute to a greater understanding of the impacts of digital libraries in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The DCSC will work closely with the DLESE Evaluation, Data, and Collections Centers, the DLESE Program Center, as well as diverse audience groups to insure that DLESE services are of the highest quality, meet the needs of current and future DLESE users, and are sustainable.