Facilitating the effective use of earth science data in education through digital libraries: bridging the gap between scientists and educators

  • Authors:

  • Tamara Shapiro Ledley;LuAnn Dahlman;Ben Domenico;Michael R. Taber

  • Affiliations:

  • TERC, Cambridge, MA;TERC, Cambridge, MA;Unidata Program Center, UCAR, Boulder, CO;University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Creating learning modules that utilize Earth data is a difficult task, requiring knowledge about the data, science, curriculum design, and the educational context. The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Data Services group hosted a workshop to bridge the knowledge gap between data providers and educators by assembling teams of experts in these areas to create data-rich learning modules. Face-to-face collaboration allowed the sharing of perspectives and encouraged the contribution of individual expertise, facilitating development of data-rich modules.