Chairs Survey
Our goal is to design and implement a Digital library for Earth System Education 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 chair of a geosciences department you are intimately involved with the evaluation of faculty accomplishments. What can the organizers of DLESE do so that you will understand the peer review process that underlies the selection of a resource to appear in the DLESE collections?

Please take a few minutes to complete the following survey. .

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Back Ground

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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 feel that the efforts of my faculty to enhance learning are fairly taken into consideration in our review processes.

  3. I encourage my non-tenured faculty members to spend time preparing Internet and other multimedia resources.

  4. At the present time our primary source of information used in evaluating teaching are student surveys conducted at or near the end of the course.

  5. At the present time our review process require that each faculty member submit a "teaching portfolio" that includes representative samples of materials developed and methods used in developing and conducting classes. Internet-based resources and other multimedia resources are included in the portfolio.

    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)

  6. What single criterion would have the greatest impact on you as a chair of a faculty member who produced a resource selected for the DLESE collection?

  7. In your opinion, With respect to the production of Internet and multimedia resources, what is the biggest single obstacle your faculty face on your campus?

  8. I would urge my faculty to consider submitting their resource(s) for DLESE review.

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

  10. Most departments or colleges have a "formula" that attempts to illustrate the expected contributions of research, teaching and service. In our case the balance is about:

      Research

      Teaching

      Service

  11. We believe that academic recognition should accrue to those whose resources are included in the DLESE collections. As an evaluator of a potential contributor to the Digital Library for Earth System Education, please share with us your thoughts on how we can best protect their intellectual contribution and communicate their efforts.

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