AMSER Phase II: Expanding the Applied Math and Science Education Repository

应用数学和科学教育资源库(AMSER)是一个合作的NSDL路径项目，旨在帮助满足社区和技术学院的资源和服务需求，并在这些社区和NSDL之间建立联系。AMSER由一个定制的门户网站、资源集合以及各种综合工具和服务组成，用于增强社区学院学生的学习体验和这些机构的教师的教学能力。服务包括为学生和教职员工提供电子邮件和在线资源更新，帮助用户组织和共享AMSER上的资源的在线折叠系统，以及个性化的资源公告。在这一NSDL路径-第二阶段项目中，AMSER正在扩大资源收集以涵盖新的职业轨道，增加互动学习模块，将基于网络的资源与来自期刊出版商的材料相结合，添加新的分类元数据以将资源与应用STEM教育中的关键概念相匹配，并举办研讨会和其他外展工作以提高对AMSER和NSDL的认识。该项目的智力价值取决于它对教育界、数字图书馆界和整个NSDL的贡献。特别是，第二阶段的扩展引入了创新和创造性的方式，接触到两年制大学社区的学生和教职员工，并将他们与NSDL联系起来，包括将各种Web 2.0技术整合到AMSER中，以及为此次扩展项目提出的评估方法。通过将重点放在社区大学部门，该项目正在产生更广泛的影响，因为全国大部分劳动力都通过该部门注册了课程和学位课程。社区和技术学院也为少数族裔和其他服务不足的人群提供高比例的服务，这意味着AMSER正在将NSDL与更广泛的服务不足的用户联系起来。最后，鉴于这些机构的兼职教员比例很高，AMSER的使用有望腾出时间，让这些教员参与更多的课堂创新，并通过促进其他人已经创造的资源的可重用性，与同事交流教学最佳实践。

The Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER) is a collaborative NSDL Pathways project designed to help meet the resource and service needs of community and technical colleges and forge a link between these communities and the NSDL. AMSER consists of a customized portal, a resource collection, and a variety of integrated tools and services for enhancing the learning experiences of community college students and the teaching capabilities of instructors at those institutions. Services include e-mail and online resource updates for students and faculty, an online foldering system that helps users organize and share resources found on AMSER, and personalized resource bulletins. In this NSDL Pathways - Stage II project AMSER is expanding the resource collection to cover new vocational tracks, adding interactive learning modules combining web-based resources with material from journal publishers, adding new taxonomy metadata to match resources to key concepts in applied STEM education, and conducting workshops and other outreach efforts to increase awareness of AMSER and NSDL. The project's intellectual merit rests on the contributions it is making to the education community, the digital library community, and the NSDL as a whole. In particular this Stage II expansion is introducing innovative and creative ways to reach students and faculty in the two-year college community and connect them with the NSDL, including the integration of a variety of Web 2.0 technologies into AMSER and the evaluation methods proposed for this expansion of the project. Through its focus on the community college sector, the project is exercising broader impacts since a large percentage of the nation's workforce enrolls in coursework and degree programs through this sector. Community and technical colleges also serve high percentages of minorities and other underserved populations meaning that AMSER is connecting NSDL to a broader array of underserved users. Finally, given the high rates of adjunct faculty at these institutions, the use of AMSER promises to free up time for such faculty to engage in more classroom innovations and exchange pedagogical best practices with colleagues, by promoting the reusability of resources already created by others.