Developing a Digital National Library for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Report of a Workshop (1998) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction
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calls for improvement from prestigious national organizations (e.g., Clinton and Gore, 1994; National Research Council, 1991, 1995, 1996a; National Science Foundation, 1992, 1996b; Project Kaleidoscope, 1991, 1997) , progress in the reform and improvement of undergraduate SME&T education often has been agonizingly slow.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, 1996b, P 72 The development of a digital National Library (NL)
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more than 75 partner organizations whose primary focus is to advance research on issues associated with constructing a cligital national library for research communities (National Science Foundation, 19971.2 Research from these initiatives has begun to point the way to how to store, manage, and retrieve large quantities of highly heterogeneous information (e.g., text, graphics, animations, software, etc.~. These new tools and techniques go far beyond the simple subject or keyword searches on which today's Internet search engines are based.
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Biographical sketches of Steering Committee members and invited participants are provided in Appendix D.) PROJECT FOCI Given the potential cost of establishing a (ligital National Library for undergraduate SME&T e(lucation and the many issues associated with doing so, the workshop organizers attempted to provide focus to the commissioned papers and to workshop discussions by providing authors and workshop participants with the following questions: Curricular, Pedagogical, and User Issues Who and how large is the potential user populations?
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How much would it cost to maintain and regularly upgrade an NL? How much money should be budgeted to purchase new hardware and software to run the proposed NL as information technology advances in the future?
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These programs are cited for information purposes only and do not imply endorsement by the National Research Council. perspectives and insights, first a detailed overview and synopsis is provided of major themes from presentations by plenary speakers, from discussions that followed plenary presentations ant!
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