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Steering Committee Recommendations
Pages 53-56

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From page 53...
... The level of funding that the agency can devote to this project may dictate the breadth of the proposed NI1s users, and that, in turn, may help with content decisions. However, the Steering Committee recommends that, prior to making final decisions about this issue, the NSF should make a concerted effort to bring together in a series of focus groups representatives from all communities that might be an NL:s likely users and service providers.
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From page 54...
... Others should involve people from many or all of the aforementioned sectors in cross-cutting sessions, with the primary objectives of having convertors listen and respond to the ideas and expressed needs of potential users. 1.3 The Steering Committee recommends that NSF also might employ the services of one or more professional organizations to organize these focus groups, to facilitate discussions within the groups and to prepare an independent assessment of user needs and desires based on the group discussions.
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From page 55...
... By promoting the development of these kinds of teaching and learning tools and by officially recognizing their members who do so, professional societies could become key catalysts in changing the culture of higher education to embrace as legitimate scholarly activities the promotion and evaluation of teaching and the promotion of effective learning by students; 2.4 The Steering Committee recommends that an NL shouIcT provide information about and access to projects in undergraduate SME&T education that the NSF and other agencies have supported financially. 2.5 The Steering Committee recommends that the NSF also seek a new, more encompassing descriptor for this project.
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From page 56...
... These various models for establishing an NL could then be evaluated against each other, with a final coordination of best practices that might lead to a single, integrated project. 3.1 Given the tremendous complexity of this project and the number of communities that must be directly involved if it is to have any chance for success, the Steering Committee recommends that NSF consider adopting Option 2.
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