BiosciEdNet (BEN) Collaborative Cycle 3

生物科学（61）的BiosciEdNet（BEN）协作是通过NSDL途径项目，提供资源，工具和专业发展的教育工作者在高中和本科水平，包括社区学院，扩大其在生物科学专业社团和联盟的管理作用。 BEN是寻求建立自己的以教育为重点的数字图书馆或向BEN门户网站提供资源的专业协会或联盟的催化剂，并且希望在有效的教学法，真实的评估和多学科生物科学资源的开发方面进行合作。 在之前的NSDL项目中，BEN Collaborative建立了一个门户网站，汇集了来自13个合作者和6个独立数字图书馆的生物科学资源;该提案将合作者的数量扩大到22个，生物科学数字图书馆的总数增加到13个。 此外，为了增加向教育局数字图书馆提交的资料，该项目正在制定一个学院校园代表方案，该方案正在全国40多名大学教师进行校园和社区讲习班的准备工作，并为估计2 700名潜在的捐助者提供技术援助。 这些新的贡献者在项目期间向BEN和NSDL提供了约25，000份同行评审的生物科学教育资源。

Biological Sciences (61)The BiosciEdNet (BEN) Collaborative is expanding its stewardship role for professional societies and coalitions in the biological sciences through an NSDL Pathway project that provides resources, tools, and professional development for educators at the high school and undergraduate levels, including community colleges. BEN serves as a catalyst for professional societies or coalitions that seek to build their own education-focused digital libraries or contribute resources to the BEN portal, and that want to collaborate on effective pedagogy, authentic assessment, and development of multidisciplinary biological sciences resources. In prior NSDL projects, the BEN Collaborative built a portal that aggregates biological sciences resources from 13 collaborators and 6 separate digital libraries; this proposal is expanding the set of collaborators to 22, and the total number of biological sciences digital libraries to 13. In addition, to increase submissions to the digital libraries of BEN, the project is developing a Faculty Campus Representative Program, which is preparing more than forty university faculty members across the county to conduct campus and community-based workshops and to offer technical assistance for an estimated 2,700 prospective contributors. These new contributors are providing an estimated 25,000 peer-reviewed, biological sciences education resources to BEN and NSDL during the life of the project.