Using Digital Libraries to Build Educational Communities

这个有针对性的研究项目追求一个增强的集合愿景，即创建和支持一个教育社区，合作解决一系列特定的教育挑战。NSDL被用作一个协作空间，供作者和用户使用基于网络的工具、课堂体验和可测量的学习成果进行迭代合作，以创建有效的材料来应对教育挑战。通过使用数字图书馆结构和一套易于使用的工具来吸引潜在用户社区参与开发过程本身，解决了教育创新未能实现广泛传播的充分记录问题。让用户社区参与开发过程，缩短了传统上基于开发-传播-评估-修改周期的形成性评估的长反馈循环。该项目利用了卡内基梅隆大学的Virtual ChemLab、CreateStudio和在线学习计划（OLI）的技术，以数据驱动的科学方式协作改进学生的教育体验。国家科学基金会数学和物理科学理事会（MPS）的多学科活动办公室为该项目提供了重要的共同资助，以表彰这项工作在推进MPS更大目标方面的价值。

This Targeted Research project pursues an enhanced vision of a collection, that of creating and supporting an educational community that collaborates to address a particular set of educational challenges. NSDL is being used as a collaboration space for authors and users to work together iteratively, using web-based tools, classroom experiences and measured learning outcomes, to create effective materials that meet educational challenges. The well-documented problem of educational innovations failing to achieve wide dissemination is being addressed by using the digital library structure in combination with a set of easy to use tools to engage the community of potential users in the development process itself. Engaging the community of users in the development process shortens the traditionally long feedback loop of formative assessment based on a develop-disseminate-assess-modify cycle. The project is leveraging the technologies of the Virtual ChemLab, CreateStudio, and the Online Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon to enable collaborative improvement of students' educational experiences in a data-driven, scientific manner. The Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) is providing significant co-funding of this project in recognition of the value of this work in advancing the larger goals of MPS.