EcoEd DL: Strategies and Technologies to Support Outstanding Ecology Education

生态学曾经是一门专注于有机体及其生态系统的科学，现在则跨越了对单个分子的研究，延伸到整个生物圈。这个由美国生态学会组织的项目正在支持一个最初的研讨会，以满足生态学社区开发数字材料的需求，这些材料可用于在本科生水平上教授生态学。研讨会汇集了研究科学家、教师和技术专家，以：1)确定战略和技术，以降低阻碍生态教育数字图书馆资源的障碍，并制定激励措施，加快对生态教育数字图书馆资源的贡献和使用；2)在科学家(作为潜在的资源提供者)和教育工作者与其学生(作为潜在的贡献者和使用者)之间建立和协调战略伙伴关系，以实现知识的可持续性；以及3)概述生态教育数字图书馆的财务可持续性战略，以确保网站维护和预期下一代技术。

Once a science focused on organisms and their ecosystems, ecology now spans the study of individual molecules to the entire biosphere. This Ecological Society of America organized project is supporting an initial workshop to address the need in the ecology community to develop digital materials that are available to teach ecology at the undergraduate level. The workshop is bringing together research scientists, faculty and technology experts to: 1) identify strategies and technologies to lower barriers that hinder, and develop incentives that will accelerate, contributions to and usage of the EcoEd DL resources; 2) establish and coordinate strategic partnerships among scientists (as potential providers of resources), and educators with their students in a wide variety of settings (as both potential contributors and users) to achieve intellectual sustainability; and 3) outline strategies for the financial sustainability of EcoEd DL to ensure site maintenance and anticipate the next generation of technology.