[LTER-education] Science Education Resource Center

Fri Oct 18 05:32:36 PDT 2019

I had a good conversation with Teresa Mourad from ESA about this question
yesterday here in Oregon at the UFERN Network Meeting. She urged us to
submit our materials to ESA’s digital library IN ADDITION TO posting it
with SERC and also on our own site if we still maintain one. ESA does not
hold copyright on the materials in the EcoEdDL so we’re free to post the
same materials elsewhere. Our materials could be branded LTER and we could
participate in the editorial process (materials already peer reviewed would
NOT need a new review).

In addition, we discussed the possibility of SERC taking the lead in
innovative materials and/or professional development with LTER sites, and
agreed that could be a very exciting prospect.

BTW … our colleague Chris Achison – an active member of UFERN – will be at
the SERC meeting as well. We thought you’d enjoy meeting each other!

Good luck with your discussions, Marty.

Alan

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Alan R. Berkowitz, Ph.D. (he/him/his)

Head of Education

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

PO Box AB

Millbrook, NY 12545

(845) 677-7600 ext. 311

(845) 677-5976 (fax)

berkowitza at caryinstitute.org

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*From:* education <education-bounces at lists.lternet.edu> *On Behalf Of *Nicholas
Oehm Jr
*Sent:* Friday, October 18, 2019 8:25 AM
*To:* Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu>
*Cc:* education at lternet.edu
*Subject:* Re: [LTER-education] Science Education Resource Center

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> 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
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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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Director, LTER Network Office

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