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The NSDL Center for Sustaining Broader Impacts. NSDL Center for Sustaining Broader Impacts. Mission:
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NSDL Center for Sustaining Broader Impacts Mission: To support the NSDL community by coordinating resources, tools, information, and relationships that can enhance the quality, utility, and educational impact of NSDL projects, and ensure the long-term relevance and sustainability of the NSDL enterprise.
Goals and Strategies Feedback
PI Team Community Advisors Kaye Howe Director Susan Van Gundy Deputy Director Mary Marlino Evaluation Director Donna Cummings Office Manager Eileen McIlvain Communications Manager Digital Learning Sciences Evaluation Team Project Tomorrow Educational Technology Consultants Robert Payo Outreach Manager Mike Luby Scholarly Publishing Consultant
Year 1 Priorities • Implementing transition while providing continuity • Coordinating work with the TNS • Redefining our scope through community-informed priority setting • Promoting and advocating for NSDL as a Cyberlearning Platform
Year 1 Priorities …continued • Establishing updated communications processes with the community • Collaborative platforms • Newsletters, RSS • NSDL Annual Meeting • Quarterly web conferences • Surveying and reporting
Year 1 Priorities …continued • Building upon existing partnerships to grow usage and pursue sustainability • NSDL Project Partners • Other NSF programs (CCLI, ITEST, Einstein Fellows, NRCEN, others) • SREB / GALILEO • Apple • NSTA Learning Center • Publishers • Library of Congress
Building upon existing products and services to put NSDL in the path of users
Year 1 Priorities …continued • Monitoring trends and emerging practices • STEM Education Trends • Scholarly Publishing Trends • Mike Luby, Scholarly Publishing Consultant • OER as a focus • Educational Technology Trends • Project Tomorrow, Educational Technology Consultant • Trends reporting, marketing plans, brokering relationships with ed tech vendors • Effective and Emerging Practices • Monthly community web conferences
Year 1 Priorities …continued • Forming new processes to gather, analyze, and report a range of performance metrics and evaluation data • Outreach Campaigns • Establishing common metrics for gathering and reporting usage data
Year 1 Priorities for Evaluation • Develop common evaluation protocols that can be shared across the Pathways and other projects • Audit collection content and growth • Collect usage metrics and user surveys • Provide a comprehensive report of our evaluation activities to the NSDL community