The NSDL Center for Sustaining Broader Impacts

NSDL Center for Sustaining Broader Impacts Mission: To support the NSDL community by coordinating resources, tools, information, and relationships that can enhance the quality, utility, and educational impact of NSDL projects, and ensure the long-term relevance and sustainability of the NSDL enterprise.

Goals and Strategies Feedback

Kaye Howe Director PI Team Susan Van Gundy Deputy Director Mary Marlino Evaluation Director Eileen Mc I lvain Communications Manager Robert Payo Outreach Manager Mike Luby Scholarly Publishing Consultant Donna Cummings Office Manager Project Tomorrow Educational Technology Consultants Digital Learning Sciences Evaluation Team Community Advisors

Year 1 Priorities  Implementing transition while providing continuity  Coordinating work with the TNS  Redefining our scope through community-informed priority setting  Promoting and advocating for NSDL as a Cyberlearning Platform

Year 1 Priorities …continued  Establishing updated communications processes with the community Collaborative platforms Newsletters, RSS NSDL Annual Meeting Quarterly web conferences Surveying and reporting

Year 1 Priorities …continued  Building upon existing partnerships to grow usage and pursue sustainability NSDL Project Partners Other NSF programs (CCLI, ITEST, Einstein Fellows, NRCEN, others) SREB / GALILEO Apple NSTA Learning Center Publishers Library of Congress

 Building upon existing products and services to put NSDL in the path of users

Year 1 Priorities …continued  Monitoring trends and emerging practices STEM Education Trends Scholarly Publishing Trends –Mike Luby, Scholarly Publishing Consultant –OER as a focus Educational Technology Trends –Project Tomorrow, Educational Technology Consultant –Trends reporting, marketing plans, brokering relationships with ed tech vendors Effective and Emerging Practices –Monthly community web conferences

Year 1 Priorities …continued  Forming new processes to gather, analyze, and report a range of performance metrics and evaluation data Outreach Campaigns Establishing common metrics for gathering and reporting usage data

Year 1 Priorities for Evaluation  Develop common evaluation protocols that can be shared across the Pathways and other projects  Audit collection content and growth  Collect usage metrics and user surveys  Provide a comprehensive report of our evaluation activities to the NSDL community