Network of Communities: Synergy Through Common Formats, Reuse, and Models for Contribution Cathy Manduca, Sean Fox, Bruce Mason representing SERC, comPADRE,

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





• 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



ActivitySheets

Title

Authors/Institutions

Summary Description

Learning Goals

Context for Use

Description and Teaching Materials

Teaching Notes

Assessment

Resources and References

Example ActivitySheet



Use in TeachingTopicsSkills

Exploring the DataData TypeAccessVisualizationTools

About the DataCollectionLimitations

ReferencesScienceEducation

DataSheets

DataSheet Collection



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







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





Starting Point: Teaching Introductory Geoscience



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





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

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/carl_ltc/index.html

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/stanford_ctl/index.html

Teacher Professional Development: Documenting Learning, Encouraging

Improvement

MNStep Activity Collection 19722

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/mnstep/activities.html

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/mnstep/activities.html

Educational Projects:Project Websites and Beyond

Washington Center Home 20801

Starting Point SSAC 16738

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/ssac_home/index.html

Working with Scientists:Bringing Scientific Research into Teaching



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?

Documents

Network of Communities: Synergy Through Common Formats, Reuse, and Models for Contribution Cathy Manduca, Sean Fox, Bruce Mason representing SERC, comPADRE,