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TI: The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE): Progress and Opportunities for Engagement
AU: * Marlino, M R
EM: marlino@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), DLESE Program Center (DPC) PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000 United States
AU: Pandya, R E
EM: pandya@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), DLESE Program Center (DPC) PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000 United States
AB: The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a community-led, NSF-funded effort to promote access to high-quality digital resources for teaching and learning about the Earth. Now in its fourth year of development, DLESE is used by tens of thousands of educators and learners a month, and provides access to over 5000 educational resources. These resources include a variety of media formats, from text-based lesson plans to sophisticated tools for interactive three-dimensional visualization of authentic scientific data. In August of 2003, DLESE introduced Version 2.0 of the library. The new version features enhanced educational services including: the ability to search by National Science and Geography Standards, the ability to search over multiple, discrete collections, and annotation services that allow educators to evaluate resources and supply tips for their effective use. With version 2.0, DLESE can better provide services to support researchers through the entire cycle of their educational and outreach efforts. These services are of particular value to researchers when developing, disseminating, and evaluating educational materials in their efforts to meet the National Science Foundation's Criteria Two, for proposals. To support development efforts, we have published best-practices guides for developing resources; we actively broker relationships between the scientific community, instructional designers, and educational researchers; and we are leading efforts to integrate data into educational materials. The DLESE Evaluation Services offers broad support to a variety of research efforts. The DLESE Program Center provides technology integration and operational systems to support partnerships with the research community.
UR: http://www.dlese.org
DE: 6605 Education
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting