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

Ensemble为现有的NSF STEM数字图书馆（NSDL）增加了一条计算路径。这一补充确保了NSDL通路对STEM领域提供了更完整的覆盖。计算路径支持全面的计算教育社区，为将计算与其他STEM领域相结合的程序的开发提供基础，并产生传播到其他NSDL路径的数字图书馆创新。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迅速发展；计算机路径极大地帮助了这些领域的计算机教育工作者。计算机路径还解决了多样性，计算机社区之间复杂的相互作用，以及满足未来对计算机相关毕业生数量增加的需求。Ensemble涵盖了从K-12到研究生和专业教育的所有计算机教育受众。Ensemble创建了一个分布式门户，提供对广泛的现有教育资源的访问，同时保留了集合及其相关的管理过程。Ensemble鼓励在多个粒度级别上贡献、使用、重用、审查和评估教育材料。为了完成总体目标，Ensemble团队直接与相关的专业协会和认证机构合作，以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.