Addressing the Shortcomings of Digital Libraries of Educational Materials

解决教材数字图书馆的缺点

• 批准号: 1057270
• 负责人: Stephen Cooper
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1057270&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Addressing; Shortcomings; Digital; Libraries; Educational

This CISE EAGER project supports the development of a resource model that allows educators to effectively find and leverage existing curricular materials, particularly computer science and computational thinking curricular materials. While many previous efforts have attempted to build repositories of course materials, these efforts have been hampered by factors such as a lack of efficient search facilities, a dearth of available/stored materials, an inability to find quality materials, or the user perception of commercial interest in the repository. The overall goal is to create a framework to address four critical issues that have hampered the utility of such repositories thus far: a better search interface, easily usable by computing teachers (especially K-12 teachers), a critical mass of materials, a rating mechanism by teachers, and a system that will appeal to teachers. This project seeks to address the shortcomings of existing repositories by providing the appropriate affordances for search and user feedback/ratings. Moreover, by proactively seeking an initial set of content, this project can help to break the lack-of-content/ lack-of-usage cycle that plagues most existing systems. This Eager project proposes to develop a prototype along these lines with enough content to be a proof-of-concept for such a system. Based on initial results and usage profiles, this project can lay a foundation for how to best proceed in making such a system more broadly used by the computing educational community.The intellectual merits of this project lies in the strong team and vision for improvement in the field of resources for computing educators. This project should provide a model for development of a digital resource system that is valued and used by educators, particularly K-12 educators. This represents a significant contribution as an enhancement over the current situation in computer science where the existing digital libraries are not widely used. By providing an alternative approach towards searching for high quality computing curricular materials, this project plans to allow high quality computing curricular materials to be accessed and used by a much wider segment of computing teachers. The team is strong, including computer science faculty, K-12 computing educators, educational specialists, and researchers with academic and industry experience with the development of searchable resources.The broader impacts of this project lie in the potential for long-term benefit to the computing community and to computing educators. If this project is successful, the computing disciplines will have a portal that can be comparable in usability to the successful portals in other STEM disciplines. It will provide an effective dissemination vehicle for high quality curricular materials, developed as through funded and non-funded sources. This project has the potential to improve the teaching of a wide variety of computing topics and courses by becoming a single source computing teachers go to when needing to find high quality curricular materials.

这个 CISE EAGER 项目支持资源模型的开发，使教育工作者能够有效地查找和利用现有的课程材料，特别是计算机科学和计算思维课程材料。虽然许多先前的努力已经尝试建立课程材料的存储库，但这些努力受到诸如缺乏有效的搜索设施、缺乏可用/存储的材料、无法找到优质材料或用户对商业的看法等因素的阻碍。对存储库的兴趣。总体目标是创建一个框架来解决迄今为止阻碍此类存储库实用性的四个关键问题：更好的搜索界面，易于计算机教师（尤其是 K-12 教师）使用，足够的材料，评级教师的机制，以及对教师有吸引力的系统。该项目旨在通过为搜索和用户反馈/评级提供适当的功能来解决现有存储库的缺点。此外，通过主动寻找一组初始内容，该项目可以帮助打破困扰大多数现有系统的内容缺乏/使用缺乏循环。这个 Eager 项目建议沿着这些思路开发一个原型，并提供足够的内容作为此类系统的概念验证。根据初步结果和使用情况，该项目可以为如何最好地让这样的系统在计算机教育界得到更广泛的使用奠定基础。该项目的智力优点在于强大的团队和改进的愿景计算机教育工作者的资源领域。 该项目应该为教育工作者，特别是 K-12 教育工作者重视和使用的数字资源系统的开发提供一个模型。这是对计算机科学当前状况的重大贡献，因为现有数字图书馆尚未得到广泛使用。 通过提供一种寻找高质量计算课程材料的替代方法，该项目计划让更广泛的计算教师群体访问和使用高质量的计算课程材料。该团队实力雄厚，包括计算机科学教师、K-12 计算机教育工作者、教育专家以及具有开发可搜索资源的学术和行业经验的研究人员。该项目更广泛的影响在于潜在的长期利益计算社区和计算教育工作者。如果该项目成功，计算学科将拥有一个在可用性方面可与其他 STEM 学科的成功门户相媲美的门户。它将为通过资助和非资助来源开发的高质量课程材料提供有效的传播工具。该项目有潜力改善各种计算主题和课程的教学，成为计算教师在需要寻找高质量课程材料时可以求助的单一来源。