Collaborative Research: Updating the WeBWorK National Problem Library

该项目建议对WebWork的NPL进行重大改进，并在全国各地建立一个教职员工社区，以维护和管理NPL(国家公共图书馆)的未来角色，NPL是随WebWork分发的超过25,000个家庭作业问题的集合。WebWork是一个由300多所学校使用的基于Web的作业系统，是一个由数学家开发和维护的开源系统。它得到了美国数学协会(MAA)的支持。该项目的其他成果是改进了不良贷款问题的组织，并开发了软件工具，以方便查阅不良贷款。完成后，数学教师将能够更容易地搜索图书馆，寻找他们想要的类型的问题。NPL及其配套软件都促进了教学的改进，并加强了数学教育的基础设施。此外，该项目通过为有效的数学教学提供一个新的工具来促进数学教师的发展。

This project proposes to make significant improvements to WeBWorK's NPL, and build a community of faculty around the country to maintain and curate the future role of the NPL (National Public Library), which is a collection of over 25,000 homework problems that are distributed with WeBWorK. WeBWorK, a web-based homework system used by over 300 schools, is an open-source system, developed and maintained by mathematicians. It is supported by the Mathematics Association of America (MAA). Additional outcomes of the project are improving the organization of NPL problems and developing software tools to facilitate easy access to the NPL. Upon completion, mathematics instructors will be able to search the library more easily for problems of the type they want. Both the NPL and the accompanying software promote the improvement of teaching and enhance the infrastructure for education in mathematics. Moreover, the project fosters mathematics faculty development by making a new tool accessible for effective mathematics teaching.