EcoEd DL: Strategies and Technologies to Support Outstanding Ecology Education

生态学曾经是一门专注于生物体及其生态系统的科学，现在它的研究范围从单个分子扩展到整个生物圈。 这个美国生态学会组织的项目正在支持一个初步的研讨会，以解决生态社区的需要，开发可用于在本科阶段教授生态学的数字材料。 该研讨会汇集了研究科学家，教师和技术专家，以：1）确定战略和技术，以降低阻碍的障碍，并制定激励措施，将加速，贡献和使用EcoEd DL资源; 2.建立和协调科学家之间的战略伙伴关系（作为潜在的资源提供者），以及教育工作者与他们的学生在各种各样的环境（作为潜在的贡献者和用户），以实现知识的可持续性; 3）概述EcoEd DL的财务可持续性战略，以确保网站维护和预测下一代技术。

Once a science focused on organisms and their ecosystems, ecology now spans the study of individual molecules to the entire biosphere. This Ecological Society of America organized project is supporting an initial workshop to address the need in the ecology community to develop digital materials that are available to teach ecology at the undergraduate level. The workshop is bringing together research scientists, faculty and technology experts to: 1) identify strategies and technologies to lower barriers that hinder, and develop incentives that will accelerate, contributions to and usage of the EcoEd DL resources; 2) establish and coordinate strategic partnerships among scientists (as potential providers of resources), and educators with their students in a wide variety of settings (as both potential contributors and users) to achieve intellectual sustainability; and 3) outline strategies for the financial sustainability of EcoEd DL to ensure site maintenance and anticipate the next generation of technology.