[LTER-education] Science Education Resource Center

[Nicholas Oehm Jr]

Hi All.

This is an interesting question that is now coming full circle.  A number of years back when Beth Simmons (PAL) and I were EOC Co-Chairs, we partnered with the CLEAN Network to review the all of the resources that became the LTER Education Digital Library (LEDL).  Some of those resources can also be found in CLEAN https://cleanet.org/clean/educational_resources/index.html which is led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College.  At that time we debated this same question and I will need to rely on the collective memory of my EOC veteran colleagues for why we chose to remain independent.  I do not recall a strong opposition against partnering with SERC, but in an abundance of caution took the conservative route of cross-listing resources.  Due to a lack of funding to support the review of resources that were waiting in queue followed by Beth’s departure, the LEDL has not been updated since its creation in 2010ish.   The reality is that developing resources is time consuming and it is clear that we are not going to be a powerhouse in generating the volume of new materials that would warrant maintaining our own Digital Library. Perhaps we should reconsider the previous decision and strengthen our relationship with SERC.

Nick










On Oct 16, 2019, at 6:42 PM, Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu<mailto:downs at nceas.ucsb.edu>> wrote:

Dear Education Managers,

I've been invited to attend a Geoscience Education Infrastructure Planning Meeting, hosted by the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton. We've talked in the past about whether it makes sense to partner with SERC rather than hosting our own Education Digital Library<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lternet.edu_education-2Ddigital-2Dlibrary_&d=DwMFaQ&c=lhMMI368wojMYNABHh1gQQ&r=ZtFb78qpqAF8ITwVekwN4g&m=zMEvuPTn_nT8KOQut_5FRwH2BSJPdugIrdMZvSlZsJ4&s=KRvOUNmv8uwM4TRRVSR5j_l9N0V45CepWADAXxrY4ks&e=> and this is an opportunity to continue and broaden that discussion. There are clearly pros and cons, but they are interested in broadening their ecology resources and doing more with original data and this meeting presents an opportunity to engage directly with them and explore the options.

My question for you is: who has used SERC -- either as a contributor or an end-user -- and what are your impressions of its strengths and weaknesses? Do you see opportunities for LTER? For the ecological and geoscience educators more broadly?

Please share your thoughts -- either in an email to me or on the google doc, which I've started here, in the Education Committee folder:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yFUCQeZHI24Sfz_6NWADLrG4-Mbr1FaZQXypnpZ9JXY<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_document_d_1yFUCQeZHI24Sfz-5F6NWADLrG4-2DMbr1FaZQXypnpZ9JXY&d=DwMFaQ&c=lhMMI368wojMYNABHh1gQQ&r=ZtFb78qpqAF8ITwVekwN4g&m=zMEvuPTn_nT8KOQut_5FRwH2BSJPdugIrdMZvSlZsJ4&s=nEiSkeyqknLr_B2WNj0xW5dDVnWrhM-AJqL0S65aG6o&e=>

Thanks!
Marty
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