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TI: A Partnership to Align Digital Resources to Educators' Needs
AU: Scotchmoor, J
EM: jscotch@uclink4.berkeley.edu
AF: Museum of Paleontology, 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720-4780 United States
AU: Geary, E
EM: egeary@csmate.colostate.edu
AF: Colorado State University, Center for Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education (CSMATE) B301 Natural and Environmental Sciences Bldg, Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1802 United States
AU: * Marlino, M R
EM: marlino@ucar.edu
AF: University Corp. 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 Corp. for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), DLESE Program Center (DPC) PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000 United States
AU: Sumner, T R
EM: sumner@colorado.edu
AF: University of Colorado, Dept. of Computer Science 430, Boulder, CO 80309-0430
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. It is an operational library, with over 20,000 web visits a month and nearly 5000 resources available to educators and learners. As the library enters a new operational phase that targets widespread use in K-12 and undergraduate settings, DLESE has partnered with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) Museum of Paleontology, the California State Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and several California school districts. These partners are initiating a pilot program intended to ensure that resources in the library align with the needs and curricula of K-12 teachers. This partnership represents a major advance in DLESE's utility to the K-12 teaching community and affords a number of advantages to each partner. The school districts benefit from materials that meet their unique curricular needs. The USGS and UCB Museum of Paleontology are able to integrate teacher needs into the design of their materials and promote wider use of their resources. DLESE gains a focused user group to participate in the user-centered design of new services and to support onsite evaluation of the library's educational impact. Finally, the overall project provides a vehicle to evaluate the effectiveness of these partnerships and apply successful practices to more general efforts.
UR: http://www.dlese.org
DE: 6605 Education
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting