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Network of Communities: Synergy Through Common
Formats, Reuse, and Models for Contribution
Cathy Manduca, Sean Fox, Bruce Masonrepresenting SERC, comPADRE, MERLOT
and many other partners...
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SERC and its partners are grateful for the funding they have received from NSF to support this work: through NSDL (DUE-0226243 & DUE-0532768) as well as through DUE-0127310, DUE-0127141, DUE-0127257, DUE-0127018, GEO-0614926, GEO-0614570, and GEO-0614393.
• NSDL goal: high quality materials supporting effective teaching in the hands of the appropriate audiences
• Challenges: – obtaining high quality materials especially “how to”
materials reflecting experience– putting materials where they will be found
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• Approaches– Technical tools that make “how to” materials easy to
create and share– Strategies for engaging educators in creating
materials– Strategies for sharing that take materials to the
audience instead of asking the audience to come to them
• Session– Tools for authoring and sharing– Panel describing use– Discussion of NSDL applications
Common Formats Provide a Structure for Sharing Community
ExpertiseActivitySheets
How do you teach your students?
DataSheetsHow does this dataset apply to my teaching?
CourseSheetsWhat do you do in your course?
Recipes for providing concise answers to core questions
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ActivitySheets
Title
Authors/Institutions
Summary Description
Learning Goals
Context for Use
Description and Teaching Materials
Teaching Notes
Assessment
Resources and References
Example ActivitySheet
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Use in TeachingTopicsSkills
Exploring the DataData TypeAccessVisualizationTools
About the DataCollectionLimitations
ReferencesScienceEducation
DataSheets
DataSheet Collection
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CourseSheets
Course Summary
Context
Goals
Content/Syllabus
Teaching Materials
Assessment
References and Notes
Teacher Preparation Courses
What Makes ‘Sheets’ Effective?
• Designed for web consumption-- Single page, skim-able, good google target, granularity that matches user expectations/needs.
• Target adaptation rather than adoption.
• Includes embedded resources/files but provides context that makes them meaningful.
• Structure reflects/imposes/guides toward best practices (e.g. having explicit activity and course goals)
• Provides a venue for implicit and unpublished expertise.
• Common format across projects for easy mixing/matching, browsing.
Make Contribution Simple and Aligned with Social Context
• First step is filling out a form which provides lots of guidance: http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/submit_activity.html
• Submitter is the ‘owner’ of the information and can edit over the web at will
• Tools evolved to support typical creation scenarios, especially peer review in workshop settings.
Sharing/Repurposing Across Projects and Partners DC Records
• Capture web/print references en passant (automated for web references).
• At a minimum track citations and crawl the external websites to obtain title and raw text content to support searching.
• References (both web and print) can point to more complete metadata records when they are available from external (harvested) collections or have been created for other (internal) projects.
Capitalize on resource identification done by authors
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Sharing/Repurposing Across Projects and Partners
Resource Collections
• Draw from the larger pool of sheets, catalog records.• Use project-specific controlled vocabularies to drive
faceted search• Use vocabulary mapping to capitalize on previous
vocabulary assignments
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Starting Point: Teaching Introductory Geoscience
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How do we reuse this approach/information in other contexts while retaining the contextuality that drives user interest?
Pedagogic modules connected to example activities in a disciplinary context
http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo
Cloning
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Make the same pedagogic content available ‘in’ other sites with a customized set of activities for that community.
Library Partnerships
Thousands of learning objectsand many hundreds of reviewedmaterials in 15+ disciplines
Physics & AstronomyPathway with learningresources & tools,organized by community
Pedagogy &Context
Reviews and Multi-Discipline
Professional Societies& Broad Content
Pedagogy &Research
Biology – 14 Examples
Math – 10 Examples
“Assignments”on
Steroids
Relations:What
SERC:How & Why
Sharing• MERLOT – ComPADRE – SERC
– Math activities useful for physics courses– ComPADRE activities included in MERLOT
Physics– Geoscience activities used in ComPADRE
• Resources & Experiences– Workshops– Review Criteria
Creating Activities• MERLOT
– Editors & Workshops. Discussions with Authors
• ComPADRE– Workshop at Professional Society Meeting
• Future– Online Workshops– Paid Writers– ???
Institutional Partners: Institutional Conversations
Showcasing Teaching on Campus
Carleton Activity Collection 13333
Stanford Pedagogic Partnership 20825
Teacher Professional Development: Documenting Learning, Encouraging
Improvement
MNStep Activity Collection 19722
Educational Projects:Project Websites and Beyond
Washington Center Home 20801
Starting Point SSAC 16738
Working with Scientists:Bringing Scientific Research into Teaching
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Pedagogy in Action
Provides a view into the sum of the collection from the partner projects:
25+ Teaching Methods
600+ Activities
Research on Learning Bibliography
http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/
Sharing Pedagogic Expertise Across the NSDL
• Ways of capturing community expertise• Tools allowing cross-project
collaboration and sharing
How are these tools and examples useful to the NSDL and its project?