1. NSDL – A Tool for Teaching and Learning Eileen McIlvain Pathways Liaison NSDL Core Integration BEN Scholars Workshop December 8-10, 2006

2. NSDL Pathways workshops goals…  Build awareness and use - spread the word…about BEN, about NSDL  Connect to user communities  Give NSDL the opportunity to learn in a direct way about unique PW issues and needs  Explore different models for professional development and capacity-building workshops – evaluate for efficacy, share for replication  Build capacity - capitalize on partnership opportunities – shared audiences, shared resources, services, expertise  Build long-term support; sustainability

3. The National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library The National Science Foundation’s online library of resources for education and research … …established to catalyze and support continual improvements in STEM education at all levels (K-12, higher education, lifelong learning)

4. NSDL Overview Funding Agency: National Science Foundation  Education and Human Resources Directorate  Initiated by NSF in 2000 as R&D project, now part of NSF’s educational cyberinfrastructure Scope: Education at all levels (K12, higher ed, lifelong learning, research)  Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Structure: A digital library describing:  2M+ selected online STEM resources from hundreds of distributed collections and services, provided and maintained by many organizations.  10 Pathways portals and over 200 NSF-funded NSDL grantees  All joined by a Core Integration team Columbia University Cornell University University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

5. What is a Digital Library? Documents Interactives Exhibits Maps Services Tools VideosData Sets Animations Images Visualizations Lesson Plans News Communities of Practice Professional Development Remotely Operated Instruments

7. Where we were… Where we are…  NSDL 1.0 (2002-2004)  integrated access to NSF-funded NSDL projects that had released collections  two levels of searching and browsing  community governance and organization  NSDL 2.0 (2004-present)  Building the foundation for educational partnerships - move from a general purpose digital library to a federation of portals each with its own focus (one library, many portals) -> Pathways strategy – discipline-specific or audience-specific portals of NSDL. FEDORA-based technical infrastructure enabling contextualization of resources.

8. Technical Infrastructure Metadata: Modified Dublin Core with crosswalks to other schema. Metadata are harvested through OAI and NSDL’s repository API Repository Architecture: Migrating from metadata-centric Oracle database to resource- centric, object-oriented, FEDORA-based repository (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) Search: New resource-centric search based on Lucene Authentication: Working toward community sign-on using Shibboleth (single login across multiple portals) Archiving: Persistent archive provided by San Diego Supercomputing Center

9. NSDL Pathways  Educational level and discipline-specific portals to NSDL resources  Built by leading organizations who are trusted by their target audiences  Provide resources, tools, services, and professional development  A method for professional organizations to engage and serve their membership communities Partnerships

10. Pathway and Lead Ed Level Discipline Math Gateway Mathematical Assoc of America UndergraduateMathematics Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) Shodor Education Foundation Undergraduate & High School Computational Science Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER) Univ of Wisc, Madison Community CollegesApplied Mathematics & Science Teachers’ Domain WGBH Public Television K-12Life, Earth, Space, & Physical Sciences Middle School Portal Ohio State University Middle GradesScience, Mathematics, & Technology ComPADRE AAPT, APS, AIP/SPS & AAS Undergraduate & High School Physics & Astronomy BioSciEdNet (BEN) AAAS, plus >20 professional societies Undergraduate & High School Biology Materials Digital Library Kent State University Undergraduate & AboveMaterials Science Engineering Pathway UC Berkeley, Univ of CO Undergraduate & K-12Engineering ChemEd DLib ACS, JCE DLib; Univ of Wisconsin Undergraduate & K-12Chemistry

11. NSDL Offers Educators… An organized point of access to the Internet for high quality resources supporting STEM education A source for accurate, appropriate, and relevant information for educators and learners at all levels Peer reviewed materials Resources that support standards

12. Why Not Just Use Google? The NSDL Value Proposition…  Relevant search results  Trusted providers  Appropriate for students  Contextualized resources  User-contributed content  Peer reviews and other annotations  Aligned to educational standards  A bridge between the education and research communities

13. Context Resources Tools & Services Partnerships

14. Publisher Partnerships Established agreements: Scientific American Oxford University Press Journals HighWire Press McGraw-Hill Higher Education Springer Elsevier (books) John Wiley Blackwell Tool Factory Cambridge University Press Books Cambridge University Press Journals Houghton-Mifflin/McDougal-Littel Nature Publishing Group Tom Snyder BioOne National Academy Press Negotiating agreements: Bedford, Freeman & Worth Oxford University Press Books Taylor & Francis SAGE Publications O'Reilly Media/Safari Exploratory discussions: American Psychological Association Riverdeep Interactive Learning Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Institute of Physics Publishing American Physical Society

15. Expert Voices  Models scientific inquiry and exposes the processes of scientific research  Promotes and facilitates conversations between research and education communities  Brings content expertise into the classroom to support out-of-field teachers  Allows scientists, teachers, and media specialists to collaboratively develop instructional context around NSDL resources Context

17. How Much Time Do You Have? Find a website Ask a question Create a module Run a simulation Download a resource Assemble a links list Use an existing module Blog on Expert Voices

18. NSDL and BEN…  What are your needs?  What kinds of outreach are you engaged in? Teacher training? Professional development workshops? conference attendance and booth events? Dissemination  Add NSDL to lists of recommended resources  NSDL search box on portals and partner sites  NSDL toolbar on university department, school, and library browsers

19. Eileen McIlvain Pathways Project Liaison eileen@ucar.edu 303-497-8354 http://nsdl.org