Potential Users Survey

Our goal is to design and implement a Digital library for Earth System Education - DLESE - that serves educators and students of all types, at all grade levels, and in all locations, by facilitating a new era of sharing of resources.

The Earth science education community has started to make DLESE a reality. With support from NSF and NASA, a community workshop "Portals to the Future: A Digital Library for Earth System Education" has developed an initial vision and action plan. A pilot project, the Geoscience Digital Library has been funded by NSF as part of the national digital library movement to develop a prototype model. DLESE is a growing, evolving entity with a primary mission to serve the needs of learners and educators in all of the Earth sciences at all levels of instruction.

As a user of Internet-based resouces we believe that you will become a user of DLESE. The evolution of DLESE will be driven by the needs of the users. Please take a few minutes to complete the following survey.

If you would like more information, please register as a member of the DLESE community. You can also subscribe to a number of e-mail services in an area of personal interest.

Back Ground

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  4. Faculty Rank :

Survey

  1. I believe that there is a need for "peer review" of Internet resources much as there is a "peer review" process for "formal" publications.

  2. I would be willing to serve as a reviewer (for a topic with which I am familiar).

  3. Which of the following resources would be of greatest interest to you?

    The following criteria will be an integral part of the process of evaluation of the DLESE collection:

    1. Accuracy (as evaluated by scientists)
    2. Importance/Significance (of the resource as you would use it)
    3. Pedagogical Effectiveness. (Is there evidence that student learning has occurred?)
    4. Well Documented. (Data shall have metadata, lessons shall have rubrics, etc.)
    5. Ease of Use (for Both students and faculty)
    6. Inspirational or Motivational or Fun (for the student)
    7. Robustness/Sustainability (of the resource)

  4. What single criterion would have the greatest impact on you as a potential user of a resource listed in the DLESE collection?

  5. If we omitted an important criterion please list it here :

  6. As a potential user of a Digital Library for Earth System Education, please share with us your thoughts about the evaluation of resources to be included in our collections.

  7. In building our initial collection we need users to nominate good resources. Please give the URLs of resouces that you believe we should consider.

  8. E-mail address :

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