Collaborative Project: Ensemble: Enriching Communities and Collections to Support Education in Computing

Enemble为现有的NSF STEM数字图书馆(NSDL)集增加了一条计算路径。这一添加确保了NSDL路径能够更全面地覆盖STEM区域。计算路径支持全方位的计算教育社区，为开发将计算与其他STEM领域相结合的程序提供基础，并产生数字图书馆创新，并将其传播到其他NSDL路径。由于包括计算机科学、计算机工程、软件工程、信息科学、信息系统和信息技术在内的计算社区继续快速发展，计算路径对这些领域的计算教育工作者有很大的帮助。计算路径还涉及多样性、计算社区之间的复杂交互，以及满足未来增加计算机相关毕业生数量的需求。从K-12到研究生和专业教育，合唱团覆盖了计算机教育的所有受众。该中心创建了一个分布式门户网站，提供对各种现有教育资源的访问，同时保存藏品及其相关的管理流程。乐团鼓励在多个层面上对教育材料进行贡献、使用、再利用、审查和评估。为了实现总体目标，合唱团团队直接与相关专业协会和认证机构合作，阐明计算社区之间的相互关系。

Ensemble adds a computing pathway to the existing set of NSF STEM Digital Libraries (NSDL). The addition ensures that the NSDL pathways provide a more complete coverage of STEM areas. The computing pathway supports the full range of computing education communities, provides a base for the development of programs blending computing with other STEM areas, and produces digital library innovations that are propagated to other NSDL pathways. Since computing communities including computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, information science, information systems and information technology continue to rapidly evolve; the computing pathway greatly aids computing educators in those areas. The computing pathway also addresses diversity, the complex interactions across the computing communities, as well as meeting the future need for increasing the numbers of computer related graduates. Ensemble reaches across the full range of audiences for computing education from K-12 to graduate and professional education. Ensemble creates a distributed portal providing access to the broad range of existing educational resources while preserving the collections and their associated curation processes. Ensemble encourages contribution, use, reuse, review and evaluation of educational materials at multiple levels of granularity. To accomplish the overall goals, the Ensemble team works directly with relevant professional societies and accreditation agencies to articulate inter-relationships among the computing communities.