1. Digital Libraries Providing Pedagogic Guidance: a Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration
Bill Bruihler, Sean Fox, Cathy Manduca,
Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College
Jeffrey Bell
California State University-Chico
Scott Cooper
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Bruce Mason
University of Oklahoma
James Rutledge
St. Petersburg College

2. Overview What is the SERC Pedagogic Service Project?
How and Why is MERLOT involved?
How can Professional Societies partner with SERC and MERLOT?

3. SERC: Pedagogic Service Project
Based on Starting Point: Teaching Entry-Level Geosciences portal
Core set of pedagogic modules (Teaching Methods)
Collections of activities and resources
Integration of pedagogic modules with teaching activities
Customization for different partners
pedagogic modules
What, why, and how of teaching method
Grounded in research on learning

4. MERLOT: Peer reviewed online materials and assignments
(total sites)
Biology
1317
296
169 (110)
Chemistry
491 63
19 (12)
Math
998
263
50 (42)
Physics
1659
147
103 (66)
Statistics
311 56
5 (4)

5. Existing Collaborations
CAUSE
ComPADRE
JCE
SERC
(Pedagogy)
MERLOT
(Review)
Biology, Math, Chemistry, Physics, Statistics

6. MERLOT/SERC/Societies Partnership
MERLOT contains links to thousands of educational websites, many with peer reviews and assignments.
SERC has a well defined pedagogic format, focusing on the use of individual activities in the classroom.
Authors and users of educational materials identify strongly with their professional societies.

7. How can we link content and pedagogy to improve teaching?
Faculty think about pedagogy in the context of the specific topics they teach (if they think about it at all)
Impact of content vs methods cannot be disentangled
Strong interest in topical examples
Link Pedagogy to Examples

8. SERC Starting Point
Intellectual model underpinning the site is described here:

9. Example SERC Modules
Game-Based Learning was written to assist geoscience faculty who want to start using games to help them teach.
Interactive Lectures provide short activities that can break up a lecture.
Just-in-Time teaching gets students to read assigned material outside of class, respond to short questions online, and then participate in discussion and collaborative exercises in the following class period.
Conceptual Models are qualitative models that help highlight important connections in real world systems and processes.
Mathematical and Statistical Models involve solving relevant equation(s) of a system or characterizing a system based upon its statistical parameters.
And 20 more……

10. SERC Services to Partners

11. How can you get involved?
Contribute your great teaching activities
Opportunity to submit at MIC session
Content Management System simplifies entry
Screen shot of activity submission form
Great professional development activity
Recommend colleagues with possible contributions
Become a peer-reviewer
Explore the collection

12. Submitting activities to SERC
Generic information about submitting:

13. Biology Activity Example

14. Activity Details

15. Societies
(Content)
SERC
(Pedagogy)
MERLOT
(Review)

16. Acknowledgement:
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation as part of the National Science Digital Library through award Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.