ATE Central: Delivering Greater Cyberlearning Impact through Coordination and Collaboration

ATE Central包括由先进技术教育计划资助的项目和中心创建的大量课程、学习对象、网站和媒体。这些资源由图书馆员根据互联网童子军多年来创建的网络学习知识、实践和软件，在数字图书馆领域开发和实施的标准和实践进行编目。ATE Central被扩展为为ATE创建一个广泛的存档系统（包括为已经结束的项目的产品提供一个网站），跟踪项目之间的影响并扩大推广工作。开发了各种工具来帮助教师更好地利用资源并指导他们进行新的努力，例如关键概念浏览界面，当发布感兴趣的新材料时提醒他们的公告服务，以及通过像ATE成功故事这样的功能提供的现实世界机会的视频。该网站记录了最佳实践，以帮助教育工作者在现有工作的基础上进行建设，并通过作为一个试验台和信息交换中心，更好地理解各种Web 2.0技术的集成，并增加它们在ATE计划中的使用，从而推进有关网络学习的知识库。成功的量化衡量是通过不同的途径衡量资源的使用，以及衡量与单个项目和中心的产品在线存在相关的活动。我们编制了一本手册，指导用户使用ATE Central提供的工具和资源。持续的反馈和指导是由评估和顾问和焦点小组的使用提供的。

ATE Central includes a large collection of curricula, learning objects, websites and media created by projects and centers funded by the Advanced Technological Education program. The resources are catalogued by librarians using standards and practices developed and implemented in the digital library field using cyberlearning knowledge, practices and software created by Internet Scout over many years. ATE Central is expanded to create an extensive archiving system for ATE (including providing a web presence for the products of projects that have ended), tracking impact across projects and amplifying outreach efforts. A variety of tools are developed to help faculty better utilize the resources and direct them to new efforts such as a key concept browsing interface, a bulletin service that alerts them when new material of interest is posted and videos of real world opportunities through features like ATE Success Stories. The site documents best practice to help educators build on existing work and advances the knowledge base about cyberlearning by acting as a test bed and clearinghouse to better understand the integration of the variety of Web 2.0 technologies and increase their use in the ATE program. Quantitative measures of success are measuring the use of the resources via diverse paths and measuring the activity related to the online presence of products of individual project and centers. A handbook is developed to guide users through the tools and resources available on ATE Central. Ongoing feedback and direction is provided by the evaluation and the use of advisors and focus groups.