NSDL Center for Sustaining Broader Impacts

NSDL维持更广泛影响中心将NSDL受助人的社区内部支持结构与明确定义的机制结合起来，在Web 2.0世界中有效地向向K-12教师和/或高等教育教员提供教育材料或专业发展的组织和联盟进行推广和传播。中心的工作有四个主要目标：1)动员：促进NSDL项目之间的信息和通信流动，以建立社区能力，确定优先事项，并确定新出现的问题，以便社区能够利用机遇并共同应对挑战。2)综合：挖掘社区的集体知识和经验，综合NSDL项目的工作，为社区提供最佳实践。3)传播：通过有针对性的外展活动，通过捆绑特定的产品和服务来满足用户的需求，以及通过可信的传播渠道分发NSDL产品和服务，将资源和研究成果交到教育者手中。4)分析和评估：创建和培养数据收集和解释的文化，以支持需求和趋势的分析，使NSDL能够创造更有效的产品和服务，满足STEM学习者的需求。该项目的智力价值在于其核心战略：i)代表社区寻求合作伙伴关系和机会；Ii)监测趋势和做法；iii)促进和倡导NSDL；iv)定制和上下文化NSDL资源；v)将NSDL置于用户的路径中；系统的数据收集，为短期决策和长期可持续性规划提供信息。这些组合在一起可以作为Web 2.0教育组织的一个模型。该项目致力于将研究与教育相结合，为教师培训、专业发展和STEM劳动力增长提供服务和支持，从而产生更广泛的影响。通过跨多个学科和受众的伙伴关系和能力建设活动倡导STEM教育，该中心正在扩大NSDL的覆盖范围和有效性，并为接触受众和了解影响创造新的渠道。这一努力对于实现NSDL社区的愿景至关重要，即将许多独特而重要的举措转变为一个日益连贯的整体，所有这些都为STEM教育服务。

The NSDL Center for Sustaining Broader Impacts combines intra-community support structures for NSDL grantees with well-defined mechanisms for effective outreach and dissemination in a Web 2.0 world to organizations and coalitions that provide K-12 teachers and/or higher education faculty with educational materials or professional development. Four primary goals guide the work of the center:1) Mobilization: to facilitate the flow of information and communications across NSDL projects to build community capacity, set priorities, and identify emerging issues so that the community can exploit its opportunities and address its challenges collectively.2) Synthesis: to mine the collective knowledge and experience of the community and synthesize the work of NSDL projects to inform community best practices.3) Dissemination: to place resources and research into the hands of educators through targeted outreach activities, by bundling specific products and services to meet users' needs, and by distributing NSDL products and services through trusted dissemination channels.4) Analysis and Evaluation: to create and foster a culture of data gathering and interpretation to support the analysis of needs and trends so that NSDL can create more effective products and services that meet the demands of STEM learners. The intellectual merit of this project lies in its core strategies of: i) brokering partnerships and opportunities on behalf of the community; ii) monitoring trends and practices; iii) promoting and advocating for NSDL; iv) customizing and contextualizing NSDL resources; v) putting NSDL in the path of users; and vi) systematic data gathering to inform short-term decision-making and long-term sustainability planning. Taken together these can serve as a model for Web 2.0 educational organizations. The project is exerting broader impacts through its dedication to the integration of research with education, the provision of services and support for teacher training, professional development, and STEM workforce growth. By advocating for STEM education through partnership and capacity-building activities, across multiple disciplines and audiences, the center is extending NSDL's reach and effectiveness and creating new channels for reaching audiences and for understanding impact. This effort is essential to the realization of the NSDL community vision of transforming many distinct and important initiatives into an increasingly coherent whole, all in the service of STEM education.