NSF NSDL Materials Digital Library & MSE Education
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NSF NSDL Materials Digital Library & MSE Education Laura M. Bartolo1, Sharon C. Glotzer2, Cathy S. Lowe1, Adam C. Powell IV3, Krishna Rajan4 Donald R. Sadoway3, James A. Warren5, Vinod K. Tewary5 1 College of Arts and Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242-0001 2 Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136 3 Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 4 Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 5 Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 ABSTRACT The National Science Foundation created the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) in order to establish a technical, communal, and organizational framework for access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. As part of the NSDL, the Materials Digital Library (MatDL) Pathway focuses specifically on serving the materials science (MS) community with a target audience that includes MS undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and researchers. MatDL is a collaborative effort involving the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Kent State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Iowa State University, and Purdue University. Our network of collaborations also includes a Nanoscience Interdisciplinary Research Team, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, and International Materials Institute. A primary goal of MatDL is to bring materials science research and education closer together. MatDL provides innovative uses of digital libraries and the web as educational media in the MS community with particular emphasis on providing: 1) tools to describe, manage, exchange, archive, and disseminate scientific data 2) workspace for open access development of modeling and simulation tools 3) services and content for virtual labs in large undergraduate introductory science courses, and 4) workspace for collaborative development of core undergraduate MS teaching resources for emerging areas. This paper will provide an overview of the NSDL MatDL Pathway, details about specific aspects of the project, as well as interactions between research and education. INTRODUCTION In 2000, the National Science Foundation (NSF) established the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) as a free online library directing users to quality resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and research. NSDL provides a dynamic and organized point of access to these resources, as well as access to services and tools that enhance the use of this content in a variety of contexts [1]. NSF created the Pathways Projects to create user-tailored access to the NSDL. MatDL
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