Brown Bag Lecture

Building a National Science, Mathematics, Engineering & Technology Education Digital Library

Presented by Flora McMartin

May 2, 2000      12:00-1:00 PM 
Room 253, Educational Science Building

As the World Wide Web continues to grow, so also does the amount of material being developed to support science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) education. Dr. McMartin will present a model for finding mechanisms to locate these resources and developing ways to evaluate their quality and congruence with teaching goals. This model comes from her experience over the past year with The National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS), a national digital library for engineering education. NEEDS has been working with a set of services and digital library collections’ partners to develop a digital learning space (www.smete.org). This digital learning space will provide access to a variety of digital learning resources and services from a federation of partners. It will serve both a community of learners and instructors across the full range of SMET education disciplines as well as users from K-12 to undergraduates to lifelong learners.

Flora McMartin is Evaluation Director of NEEDS. Her doctorate is in education and assessment from UC-Berkeley. She has been working closely with faculty who are engaged in the reform of SMET education, providing expertise in faculty development and assessment, and in program evaluation. As an NISE Fellow on the College Level One Team, McMartin is focusing her efforts on producing the Case Studies, Tool and Practice Jewels, the Problems to Anticipate, and Evaluation Tools pages of the Institute for Learning Technology Web site.

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