Metadocuments as Communicative Artifact to Enable Use of a Research Digital Library in Undergraduate SMET Education

为支持研究界的活动而建立的数字图书馆包含与本科生SMET教育直接相关的材料。然而，它的组织结构反映了研究社区建立的惯例，而不是本科生的需求。该项目正在研究和开发软件工具，以组织和背景研究数字图书馆的信息，以便它可以更好地反映本科生学习者的需求和教师的教学目标。该项目使用“路径”或“导游”的比喻来描述这些组织和情景工具。演示“导游”使用的内容试验台是一大堆基于Web的材料，最初集中在基于WWW的植物区系上，最近扩展到包括昆虫学材料。该工具的开发扩展了之前对K-12课堂中路径应用的调查，包括创建更复杂的结构，统称为元文件。

A digital library constructed in support of a research community's activities contains material of direct relevance to undergraduate SMET education. However, its organizational structure reflects the conventions established by the research community, not the needs of the undergraduate student. This project is researching and developing software tools to organize and contextualize information in a research digital library so that it may better reflect the needs of undergraduate learners and the pedagogical goals of faculty. The project uses the metaphor of a "path" or "guided tour" for these organizing and contextualizing tools. The content testbed on which the use of "guided tours" is being demonstrated is a large body of Web-based material centered initially on WWW-based floristics and extended recently to include entomological materials. The tool development extends previous investigations into the application of paths in K-12 classrooms to include the creation of more complex structures, collectively known as metadocuments.