Pedagogic Services for Digital Libraries

智力优势：国家STEM数字图书馆(NSDL)正在提供越来越多的服务，以提高其STEM教材对用户的有效性。该项目将教学材料与数字图书馆藏书中的教学材料连接起来。它帮助教师和教职员工了解如何以吸引人、有趣和有效的方式使用STEM材料，体现教与学的关键原则。该项目是建立在一个成功的例子--起点数字图书馆的基础上的，这一设计确保了寻求教学材料的人也能找到教学信息，反之亦然。正在开发一套新的工具，使其他数字图书馆能够将该项目开发的教学材料与其图书馆的教学材料联系起来，同时建立创建更广泛的教学材料和范例的机制。服务用户还将能够开发定制的教学门户网站，将其社区高度感兴趣的教学材料与从他们的收藏和共享的范例收藏中提取的与其用户相关的范例联系起来。该服务可由NSDL项目定制，因此可以根据其社区的兴趣和需求进行调整，并无缝集成到他们的库中。共享的教学材料和教学实例集合将促进整个NSDL内容的共享和重复使用，并促进图书馆用户在NSDL集合和门户之间的流动。这项服务是作为与五个NSDL项目和两个校园教学中心的内置合作伙伴关系开发的；这些中心正在实施这项服务，并为共享收藏做出贡献。这项工作是通用服务的基础，该服务将在项目的第三年在NSDL中推广使用。更广泛的影响：这个项目填补了教师在寻找优秀材料和知道如何有效使用它们之间的一个公认的差距。与校园教学中心的合作伙伴关系正在扩大该项目的覆盖范围。作为个别校园教师专业发展的重点，这样的中心既为他们的教师提供教学信息，又分享他们在校园里取得的进展。通过将这项关键的NSDL服务整合到校园教学中心的网站中，NSDL正在被带入校园并得到广泛传播。探索它在课程管理系统中的应用也在扩大这项服务的覆盖范围。课程管理系统是教师在设计和交付课程时使用的主要工具。NSF的支持：NSF数学和物理科学局(MPS)的多学科活动办公室和NSF地球科学局(GEO)的地球科学司正在共同为该项目提供资金，以确认其在整合数学、物理和地球科学的研究和教育方面的潜在价值。

Intellectual Merit: The National STEM Digital Library (NSDL) is providing a growing array of services to improve the effectiveness of its STEM teaching materials to users. This project connects pedagogic materials to teaching materials in digital library collections. It is helping teachers and faculty understand how to use STEM materials in ways that are engaging, interesting, and effective, embodying key principles of teaching and learning. The project is building on a successful example, the Starting Point Digital Library, a design that ensures that seekers of teaching materials also find pedagogic information, and vice versa. A new set of tools is being created to enable other digital libraries to link the pedagogic materials developed by this project to teaching materials in their library while establishing mechanisms for creating a much broader collection of pedagogic materials and examples. Service users will also be able to develop customized pedagogic portals with pedagogic materials of high interest to their community linked to examples relevant to their users drawn from both their collections and the shared example collection. The service is designed to be customizable by NSDL projects so that it can be adapted to meet the interests and needs of their communities and be integrated seamlessly into their library. The shared collection of pedagogic materials and teaching examples will foster sharing and reuse of content across the NSDL and promote movement of library users between NSDL collections and portals. This service is being developed as a built-in partnership with five NSDL projects and two campus centers for teaching and learning; these are implementing the service and contributing to the shared collection. This work is the basis for a generalized service that will be rolled out for use across the NSDL in the third year of the project. Broader Impact: This project fills a recognized gap between instructors finding excellent materials and knowing how to use them effectively. Partnerships with campus centers for teaching and learning are extending the reach of this project. As a focus for faculty professional development on individual campuses, such centers both provide pedagogic information for their faculty and share the advances taking place on their campuses. By integrating this key NSDL service into the websites of campus centers for teaching and learning, the NSDL is being brought onto campus and widely disseminated. Exploring its use in course management systems, a primary tool used by faculty when designing and delivering their courses, is also extending the reach of this service. NSF Support: The Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) and the Division of Earth Sciences in the NSF Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) are providing co-funding for this project in recognition of its potential value in integrating research and education in the mathematical, physical, and earth sciences.