NSDL awarded transition funding...

NSDL has received funding from the National Science Foundation to continue key work elements over the next two years, positioning it to seek longer-term sustainability options. Titled Repositioning NSDL for the Next Generation of Digital Learning, the grant focuses on bringing to scale various pilot projects focused on STEM education improvements, and implementing new capacities and capabilities across the network of NSDL projects and partners: 

• Development of guidelines and best practices promoting Learning Application Readiness (LAR) and enhancing quality of NSDL resources and metadata
• Expansion of the NSDL Math Common Core collection of digital resources, setting the stage for development of Next Generation Science Standards resource collection; with recommendations for best practices
• Hardening of NSDL technical infrastructure for community-sustained operation (transition of infrastructure from Cornell University to UCAR)
• Collaboration with Dept. of Education and Dept. of Defense Learning Registry initiative as a use case for the exchange of use data (STEM Exchange/paradata) on digital resources in classroom and other learning settings
• Migration of STEM Exchange pilot to new communities of practice, enabling paradata interchange across multiple communities, including NSDL Pathways
• Evaluation of the impact of standards-aligned resources in learning communities that informs STEM Exchange collaboration and process development

See more information and the full proposal, on this site, at Repositioning NSDL for the Next Generation of Digital Learning