Questions & Challenges Arising in Building the Collection of a Digital Library for Education

The user-centered development and testing of a dublin core metadata tool

“…Combined, these factors mean that there are increasing groups of users who do not have formal professional training in metadata work, but who also have an interest in creating metadata, who will be using metadata tools. Studies of metadata tools have shown that they can be difficult for non-professionals to use [5]. The findings of these DL studies echo those of a meta-study of bricks-and-mortar library usability studies of Web sites, OPACs, etc.…”

Developing and Using a Guide to Assess Learning Resource Quality in Educational Digital Libraries

“…We selected only articles that included or referenced rubrics used to review online educational resources. The literature review yielded articles with descriptions of 12 rubrics (Liu, & Ward, 2007;Fitzgerald, Lovin, & Branch, 2003;Nesbit, Belfer, Leacock, 2003;Ohio Resource Center;Knox et al, 1999;Recker, Walker, & Lawless, 2003;Sumner, Khoo, Recker, & Marlino, 2003;Custard & Sumner, 2005;Kastens, DeFelice, Devaul, DiLeonardo, Ginger, Larsen, et al, 2005;McMartin, 2004;Muramatsu & Agogino, 1999). In keeping with our first goal (to synthesize the various dimensions of existing digital library rubrics in order to identify a standardized set of criteria that could potentially be used by any digital library with online educational resources), our initial plan was to identify review criteria at the most granular level and then do a frequency analysis to identify broad topics that applied across criteria (e.g., pedagogy or usability).…”

Impacts of Resource Development on Native American Lands

“…By selecting and reviewing resources from the open web (e.g. Manduca and Mogk, 2000;Kastens et al, 2005), and placing these resources in appropriate contexts (Lagoze et al, 2006;Manduca et al, 2006), our goal was to create a learning environment that would promote student learning through inquiry and discovery .…”