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Sunday, December 18, 2005
Questions & Challenges Arising in Building the Collection of a Digital Library for Education - Kim Kastens et al; D-Lib
Education has long functioned as a cottage industry, in which individual craftspeople handcraft individual products for distribution to their local communities. The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) [1] and its component Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) [2] offer the potential of a fundamental paradigm shift, in which educators craft educational resources in their area of greatest expertise and interest, and draw upon a national library of existing, high-quality materials for teaching and learning about other topics. It's easy to write these words, but much harder to build a library that lives up to this promise. This article articulates some of the major questions and challenges that we, and our many collaborators, have faced while building the DLESE collections.
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